Ladies’ Night | Gramola 99153

Ladies’ Night

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Label: Gramola

Cat No: 99153

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 12th January 2018

Contents

About

Until late into the 20th century, being composer was not a valid choice of profession for women for diverse social and political reasons, leading to a rather small number of female composers in music history. “Ladies’ Night” with Thomas Albertus Irnberger, violin and Barbara Moser, piano turns a spotlight on a number of these composers of different countries and makes a late but all the more important contribution to a more just relationship between the genders. Many of the women portrayed in this album like Amy Beach (U.S.A.), Luise Adolpha le Beau (Germany), Pauline Viardot-Garcia (France), Amanda Röntgen-Maier (Sweden), Maria-Theresia Paradis (Austria) and Dora Pejacevic (Croatia), were quite successful musicians as well.

Reviews

This enterprising recital collects together a number of distinguished female composers, all far more than footnotes to the musical mainstream. The fact that Amy Beach’s four-movement Sonata isn’t a mainstay of the repertoire is, quite frankly, baffling. ... Thomas Albertus Irnberger and Barbara Moser bring to it a poetic radiance and enraptured intensity that sounds especially realistic when the SACD surround track is activated. ... Perhaps the greatest surprise of all is the set of six expertly-crafted pieces by Amanda Röntgen-Maier..., which flavours Grieg with an occasional dash of Dvořák, yet retains its own distinctive creative impulse.  Julian Haylock (Chamber Choice)
BBC Music Magazine April 2018

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