Leah Broad - Quartet – How Four Women Challenged the Musical World
Highlights the lives, loves, and musical careers of four extraordinary women:
Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.
In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century’s most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but they became ghostly presences until Leah Broad, via a group biography, resurrected these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces.
Their names
Their names survived only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten. But now here they are:
Ethyl Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette.
Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation.
Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the ‘English Strauss’ never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar’s grave alone.
Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain’s first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II’s coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor.
Paperback, published in 203, 472 pages.
€20.00

Chalaque - Sounds from the Other Ideology
Chalaque was the project of Manchester-based guitarist Nick Mitchell, involving various players over time. In this release from 2013 they’re a trio with a..(read more)
Label: Golden Lab / ROWF 37
Artist: Chalaque
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Prog-Rock, Psychedelic Rock, UK, Vinyl.

Various Artists - Desde El Otro Lado (Electroacoustic Music From Latin America)
Not so well known composers in the Electro-Acousticmusic field from Latin America with compositions from E.Reck Miranda, Elsa Justel, Nicolas Suarez Eyzaguirre,..(read more)
Label: OO Discs / oo45
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Electro-Acoustic, Musique Concrète.

Tristan Perich - Parallels
“There is a precision to Perich's compositions that indicates a clarity of thought and a direct through-line in his process of working. There are no ..(read more)
Label: Physical Editions / Vol.1 No.1
Artist: Tristan Perich
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Electronic Music.
