Andree / Vogel / Cesetti- First Ladies
One could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face - family opposition for Mel Bonis in France and Ethel Smyth in England, institutional conservatism for Elfrida Andrée in Sweden. It has taken a century and more for that initial prejudice to fall away, and they are now beginning to attract a fair hearing for their music. What ultimately matters, of course, is not whether composers are male or female but whether they write good music, and these three sonatas - melodically expansive, rhythmically vivacious, harmonically warm - point to the musical riches that further exploration of their creators' output will uncover.
Tracklist:
- Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Allegro con spirito
- Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Andante cantabile
- Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Finale. Allegro moderato e risoluto
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Moderato
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Presto
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Lento (Thème Populaire Grec Recueilli Par Bourgault-Ducoudray)
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Final. Con moto
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Allegro Moderato
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Scherzo. Allegro grazioso
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Romanze. Andante grazioso
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Finale. Allegro vivace
UPC > 5060640070134
Format > New CD
Label > Toccata
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One could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face - family opposition for Mel Bonis in France and Ethel Smyth in England, institutional conservatism for Elfrida Andrée in Sweden. It has taken a century and more for that initial prejudice to fall away, and they are now beginning to attract a fair hearing for their music. What ultimately matters, of course, is not whether composers are male or female but whether they write good music, and these three sonatas - melodically expansive, rhythmically vivacious, harmonically warm - point to the musical riches that further exploration of their creators' output will uncover.
Tracklist:
- Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Allegro con spirito
- Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Andante cantabile
- Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Finale. Allegro moderato e risoluto
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Moderato
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Presto
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Lento (Thème Populaire Grec Recueilli Par Bourgault-Ducoudray)
- Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Final. Con moto
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Allegro Moderato
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Scherzo. Allegro grazioso
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Romanze. Andante grazioso
- Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Finale. Allegro vivace
UPC > 5060640070134
Format > New CD
Label > Toccata
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.