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For many centuries, women composers and performers were kept from public view. Tradition deemed it only proper that females confine themselves to the domestic arts and leave the concert hall to the men. Considered a novelty, women's music might be heard at best in drawing rooms and recital parlours.

In today's Afternoon on 3, Katie Derham showcases some of the works which found their way into the repertoire, including those by Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach and Northern Ireland composer Joan Trimble who died in 2000: together with some of the finest Ulster Orchestra performances from the last year.

Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C
Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)
Ulster Orchestra
Pascal Roph茅 (conductor)

Beethoven: Romance in F
Catherine Leonard (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

3pm
Amy Beach: Symphony No. 2 (Gaelic)
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta (conductor).