British Women Composers

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SMYTH / MACONCHY / POLDOWSKI / TATE / BARNES
British Women Composers
Clare Howick (violin) / Sophia Rahman (piano)

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Release Date: Monday 6 December 2010

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"imaginative programme, brilliantly handled … a very generously filled CD." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2011)

Featuring such well-known names as Ethel Smyth and Elizabeth Maconchy, as well as less familiar female composers, the works on this disc illuminate a crucial but under-explored aspect of musical life in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.

Spanning a period of more than eighty years, a variety of musical styles is here revealed, rich with distinctive voices.

Clare Howick has a special interest in 20th-century British violin repertoire and plays a Stradivarius violin on this recording.

A former student of Alexander Kelly and Malcolm Martineau at the Royal Academy of Music, Sophia Rahman has made over twenty chamber music recordings.

Tracks:

Barns:
La Chasse

Maconchy:
Three Preludes

Smyth:
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 7

Tate, P:
Triptych

Wieniawska:
Violin Sonata in D minor