| Description |
3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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1.4 m/s |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Summary |
Contains vocal and instrumental music composed by women from the Middle Ages to the present. |
| Contents |
Augustus, the Monarch / Kassia (4:16) -- O virgo ac diadema (6:54) ; Kyrie (4:30) ; O rubor sanguinis (1:38) / Hildegard von Bingen -- A chantar / La Comtessa de Dia (2:29) -- Je vous pri, dame Maroie / Dame Maroie de Diergnau and Dame Margot (2:02) -- Se je souspire ; Ecce iterum / Margaret of Austria (3:27) -- O deathe, rock me asleepe / Anne Boleyn (2:00) -- Madrigal VI. Morte ; Che vôi ; Te chiamo / Maddalena Casulana (1:21) -- Il primo libro di madrigale. Maria, dolce Maria (2:40) ; La liberazione di Ruggiero. Aria of the shepherd (2:01) / Francesca Caccini -- Hor che Apollo / Barbara Strozzi (12:02) -- Missa prima. Kyrie (5:15) ; Crucifixus (3:43) / Isabella Leonarda -- Suite en ré mineur. La flamande (2:40) ; Chaconne et son double (6:08) ; Semelé (6:18) / Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre -- Pallade e Marte. Sinfonia / Maria Margherita Grimani (3:19) -- Sonata in F. Adagio / Anna Amalie, Princess of Prussia (3:23) -- Sonata in A. Allegro / Marianne von Martines (2:28) -- Morgenlied eines armen Mannes / Maria Theresia von Paradis Nocturne / Maria Agata Szymanowska (4:48) -- Schwanenlied / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (2:25) -- Er ist gekommen durch Sturm und Regen (2:55) ; Trio in G minor. Allegro moderato (7:12) ; Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann (10:40) / Clara Wieck Schumann -- Trio in E minor. Allegro deciso / Louise Farrenc (7:58) -- Die Beschwörung / Pauline Viardot-Garcia (2:52) -- In the twilight (3:36) ; Concerto for piano and orchestra. Scherzo (5:24) / Amy Beach -- Italian sketches. Venise / Teresa Carreño (3:38) -- Sonata in C minor, op. 21. Allegro / Cécile Chaminade (6:47) -- The wreckers. Scene from Act I / Dame Ethel Smyth (2:16) -- The thriller / May Frances Aufderheide (1:51) -- Clairières dans le ciel. Demain fera un an / Lili Boulanger (7:33) -- Der Erkennende / Alma Mahler (3:44) -- Trio for violin, cello, and piano. Allegro vigoroso / Rebecca Clarke (8:00) -- Sonata in C-sharp. Modéré sans lenteur / Germaine Tailleferre (2:15) -- Prelude no. 2 for piano (2:15) ; String Quartet 1931. Movement 3 (3:36) ; Three songs. Rat riddles (3:25) / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Song to the Dark Virgin / Florence Price (2:13) -- Ouvrage de Dame. Variation VII / Elsa Barraine (3:11) -- The hound of heaven / Miriam Gideon (7:06) -- Sonata no. 2 for piano. Movement 1 / Grazyna Bacewicz (6:55) -- Homunculus / Julia Amanda Perry (5:05) -- Alcestis. Dance of triumph : the rescue of Alcestis / Vivian Fine (2:15) -- Sonata for cello and piano. Sarabande / Jean Coulthard (5:41) -- Sonata. Preamble / Violet Archer (6:20) -- Mary, Queen of Scots. Monologue of Mary / Thea Musgrave (5:19) -- Symphony no. 1. First movement / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (6:50) -- --circle around the sun-- / Augusta Read Thomas (4:49). |
| Summary |
"The authoritative recorded collection of women's music, now expanded and updated in a 3-CD set"--Publisher's website. |
| Genre/Form |
Music by women composers.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Briscoe, James R., 1949-
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| ISBN |
0253344069 |
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