Final Years
Dorothy Howell spent the Second World War giving morale-raising recitals and bringing in the harvest as a Land Girl. Donald Macleod and Leah Broad look at Howell's final years.
This week Donald Macleod is joined by the award-winning author Leah Broad to explore the story of the British composer Dorothy Howell, who shot to fame aged 21 after the triumphant premiere of her orchestral work 鈥楲amia鈥� at the Proms. By the mid-1920s she was regarded as one of the leading women composers of the day, performing in prestigious venues across the UK and regularly appearing on radio programmes in the earliest days of broadcasting. But she faced challenges from the 1930s onwards that left her disillusioned, and by the end of her life she wanted to destroy all but a handful of her works. Luckily family intervened, but even so Howell鈥檚 music almost disappeared from view - until recently.
After the Second World War, when she worked as a Land Girl, Howell continued to tour as a performer, giving piano recitals around the country. Donald Macleod and Leah Broad discuss Howell鈥檚 final years, when she would tend Elgar鈥檚 grave, but had given up on writing music of her own.
Humoresque for piano
Sophia Rahman (piano)
Sonata for violin and piano (Mvts 2 and 3)
Lorraine McAslan, violin
Sophia Rahman, piano
To Sine in Winter
Emily Gray, soprano
Timothy Salter, piano
Sonata for piano
Sophia Rahman, piano
Divertissements 1, 2, 3
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
Rebecca Miller, conductor
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Dorothy Howell
Humoresque for piano
Performer: Sophia Rahman.- DUTTON : CDLX-7144.
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Dorothy Howell
Violin Sonata (2nd & 3rd mvts)
Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Performer: Sophia Rahman.- DUTTON : CDLX-7144.
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Dorothy Howell
To Sine in Winter
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Dorothy Howell
Piano Sonata
Performer: Sophia Rahman.- DUTTON : CDLX-7144.
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Dorothy Howell
Three Divertissements
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.- SIGNUM : SIGCD763.
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- Fri 11 Oct 2024 16:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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