Music By Women / Various- Music By Women
"Music by Women" presents 14 world premiere recordings (out of 16 tracks) in this album with music by female composers. A varied program which includes the 17th C. French composer Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and the 20th C. British-American composer Rebecca Clarke, as well as a number of contemporary female composers from several different countries, some of which have been commissioned by the performers: Chinese composer Wang Jie, Japanese composer Yui Kitamura, Russian-born Elena Firsova, Canadians Elizabeth Raum and Erika Raum, Belize-born Errollyn Wallen, and the American composers Lydia Lowery Busler, Alice Gomez, Laura Kaminsky, Dolores White, Francine Trester (whose compositions also feature her own original poetry). Violinist Elmira Darvarova (first and only woman-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) and hornist Howard Wall (a New York Philharmonic member, formerly with The Philadelphia Orchestra) offer splendid interpretations.
Tracklist:
- 5 Postcards: No. 3, Intense (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- Appalachia
- Memoria, Op. 162
- 2 Pieces For Viola Or Violin & Cello: No. 2, Grotesque (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- The Confessions Of St. Augustine
- Baikushev's Pine
- Sonata No. 1 In D Minor: II. Presto (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- Blues Dialogues For Solo Violin: III. Fast And Funky
- Blast
- 2 Pieces For Viola Or Violin & Cello: No. 1, Lullaby (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- The Golden Snake Dances Into Rapture
- La Calavera
- Prohodna
- My Burning Tears
- Idiom
- A Bird And A Hawthorn Tree
"Music by Women" presents 14 world premiere recordings (out of 16 tracks) in this album with music by female composers. A varied program which includes the 17th C. French composer Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and the 20th C. British-American composer Rebecca Clarke, as well as a number of contemporary female composers from several different countries, some of which have been commissioned by the performers: Chinese composer Wang Jie, Japanese composer Yui Kitamura, Russian-born Elena Firsova, Canadians Elizabeth Raum and Erika Raum, Belize-born Errollyn Wallen, and the American composers Lydia Lowery Busler, Alice Gomez, Laura Kaminsky, Dolores White, Francine Trester (whose compositions also feature her own original poetry). Violinist Elmira Darvarova (first and only woman-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) and hornist Howard Wall (a New York Philharmonic member, formerly with The Philadelphia Orchestra) offer splendid interpretations.
Tracklist:
- 5 Postcards: No. 3, Intense (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- Appalachia
- Memoria, Op. 162
- 2 Pieces For Viola Or Violin & Cello: No. 2, Grotesque (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- The Confessions Of St. Augustine
- Baikushev's Pine
- Sonata No. 1 In D Minor: II. Presto (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- Blues Dialogues For Solo Violin: III. Fast And Funky
- Blast
- 2 Pieces For Viola Or Violin & Cello: No. 1, Lullaby (Arr. For Violin & Horn)
- The Golden Snake Dances Into Rapture
- La Calavera
- Prohodna
- My Burning Tears
- Idiom
- A Bird And A Hawthorn Tree