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Maconchy faces some harsh realities as she leaves college and seeks to launch her career.

Elizabeth Maconchy is surely the greatest composer of string quartets ever to emerge in the British Isles; and yet her music is often ignored in favour of lesser works by more famous British composers. So says Maconchy鈥檚 biographer, Erica Siegel, who joins Kate Molleson to explore the life and works of this key figure in Britain and Ireland鈥檚 musical story. Across the week, Kate and Erica set out to show us why Maconchy deserves much more of our attention. We鈥檒l hear stories of personal crises, public apathy and outrageous institutional sexism, and how Maconchy met each challenge with characteristic grace and perseverance. Her works fizz with invention and purpose and she described her own music as 鈥渋mpassioned argument鈥�.

Today, Kate and Erica follow Maconchy as she sets out to capitalise on her spectacular Proms debut. A sudden health emergency threatens to derail her plans and Maconchy is frustrated when concert promoters, including the 大象传媒, seem reluctant to take on her music. Could her gender have anything to do with it?

String Quartet No 1: IV. Presto
Hanson String Quartet

Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra: II. Andante sostenuto
Cl茅lia Iruzun, piano
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Oboe Quintet
George Caird, Oboe
Simon Blendis, violin
Alison Dods, violin
Louise Williams, viola
Jane Salmon, cello

Sonata for Viola and Piano
Louise Williams, viola
David Owen Norris, piano

String Quartet No 3
Hanson String Quartet