Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Category: recordings

  • The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time

    Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances).  NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here)  about this historic performance (Musicologist Elizabeth Wood and Music Director Leon Botstein were interviewed). The first sentence of Music Director Leon Bottstein’s program note is…

  • New Recording of Bach Cello Suites

    It wasn’t that long ago that the question of authorship for the Cello Suites – and the idea that they were written not by Bach but (gasp!) his wife – stirred up musicologists, music journalists, and any music enthusiast with their two cents to add to the conversation.  (We wrote about it here.)  And while…

  • Portrait of the Composer as a Young Woman

    As noted earlier, I’m performing in the BARS Concert June 6. I’ve written the program notes for the concert, and here they are! The three pieces on our program today are linked, as our title suggests, by all being composed when their creators were young women, and, as works that served to launch these composers into the world as…

  • New Recording of Clara Schumann

    Internationally acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper just released a new CD pairing the works of Robert and Clara Schumann. Geoffrey Norris, of The Telegraph, reviewed the CD highly, while also acknowledging the too-often-forgotten history: The situation today, however, is rather the reverse of what it was in their lifetime. Clara was the really famous one. When they travelled together,…