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12 Mar 2021, MediaCityUK, Salford

Three Centuries of Women Composers - Friday

´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic
Three Centuries of Women Composers - Friday
14:00 Fri 12 Mar 2021 MediaCityUK, Salford
The final day of a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world, with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ orchestras and choirs. Today, large-scale works by Germaine Tailleferre and Gloria Coates amongst many other gems.
The final day of a week-long celebration of women composers from around the world, with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ orchestras and choirs. Today, large-scale works by Germaine Tailleferre and Gloria Coates amongst many other gems.

Three Centuries of Women Composers - Friday

This week, for the first time, every note in Afternoon Concert was written by a woman. In recordings from all of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ orchestras and choirs, we celebrate female creativity with music spanning 300 years and traversing the globe.

In today's final collection –
Large-scale works by Germaine Tailleferre and Gloria Coates, plus Lili Boulanger, Errolyn Wallen, Elisabetta Brusa & Sally Beamish, in recent recordings by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ orchestras.

Wallen wrote PACE as a choral work, explaining that it is 'best understood as a single human breath; as a single line; as a world’s long, long journey to light'. This recording by members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra is the first performance of the composer's arrangement for brass ensemble. In 1923 Tailleferre, the only female member of the group of French composers known as Les Six, completed Le Marchand d'oiseaux for the Ballet Suédois, with a scenario, costumes and set designs by the woman artist and poetess Hélène Perdriat. Born in Wisconsin, Gloria Coates has been described as a having a personal soundworld unlike any other in contemporary music. Her work includes 16 symphonies, varied chamber music, and solo, vocal and electronic compositions.

Presented by Hannah French.

Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps

´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor

Errollyn Wallen: PACE (version for brass ensemble)

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Germaine Tailleferre: Le Marchand d'oiseaux

´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Perry So, conductor

Gloria Coates: Symphony no. 11,’Philemon und Baucis’

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Leokadiya Kashperova: Cello Sonata no. 2

Anastasia Kobekina, cello
Luka Okros, piano

Ruth Crawford-Seeger: Andante for strings

´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra
Stephanie Childress, conductor

Mared Emlyn: Porthor (Whistling Sands)

´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
B. Tommy Andersson, conductor

Elisabetta Brusa: Firelights, op.13

´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Sally Beamish: Reckless

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Chloe van Soeterstede, conductor