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

Ivan Vukosavljević & Ensemble Klang - The Burning
Ensemble Klang plus an array of deconstructed electric guitars: an ominous, majestic drone at first, a smouldering glow, evolving into a hellish forest inferno...(read more)
Label: Ensemble Klang Records / Klang#15
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Drone, Guitar, Saxophone, Vinyl.

Eliane Radigue - A portrait by IMA
This DVD contains a interview with Eliane Radigue about her electronic music and a bonus audiotrack of her electronic work “Jetsun Mila” from 1986. ..(read more)
Label: IMA
Artist: Eliane Radigue
Medium: DVD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '80s, Composers, Electronic Music.

Tristan Perich - Active Field
Including the full musical score in poster form! Active Field is for 10 violins (Ensemble Signal, conducted by Brad Lubman) and 10-channel (!) 1-bit electronics..(read more)
Label: Physical Editions / Vol.1 No.4
Artist: Tristan Perich
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Electronic.
