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It's all right now ... isn't it?

Music Matters Jenni Murray's Women Composers

Jenni Murray is joined by composer Anna Meredith to celebrate the music of women composers, take stock of their great achievements and assess the obstacles they still face.

Jenni Murray concludes her series celebrating the music of women composers with a final fabulous playlist of great music, classic and modern, and exploring the issues women face in forging a career as a composer.

8. It's all right now ... isn't it? Jenni is joined by composer Anna Meredith to take stock of the progress that women composers have made over the past centuries in the face of often great prejudice and adversity, and to look to the future - what obstacles still remain and what solutions still need to be found? The playlist includes music by Mel Bonis, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Anna Clyne, Caroline Shaw and Dani Howard.

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Sat 29 Mar 2025 13:00
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Music Played

  • Eleanor Alberga

    Celebration Dance (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Anna Meredith

    Majolica (Tripotage Miniatures)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • Anna Meredith, Alexander Goehr & Colin Matthews: Chamber Works (Live).
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 106.

  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Etruscan Concerto (first movement: Promenade)

    Performer: Keith Jarrett. Orchestra: Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • MusicMasters Classics.

  • Mel Bonis

    厂补濒辞尘茅

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Leo Hussain.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 3.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr 镁煤 oss himnum 谩 [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: H枚r冒ur 脕skelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Anna Clyne

    PIVOT

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Orchestral Series Highlights 2021 (Edinburgh International Festival).
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Anna Bon di Venezia

    Sonata in D major, Op 1 No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stefano Bet. Performer: Francesco Cera.
    • Sonate Veneziane del '700.
    • TACTUS.
    • 016.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Dani Howard

    Ellipsis

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Urbina.
    • Dani Howard: Orchestral Works.
    • Rubicon.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Sat 29 Mar 2025 13:00
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