Beach Chaminade

Danny Driver ‎- Beach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Danny Driver ‎- Beach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 69:28 minutes | 1.16 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

International Women’s Day falls on 8 March, celebrating the ‘social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women’. Volume 70 in our Romantic Piano Concerto series champions three female composers, and three works whose in-the-face-of-it-all joie de vivre makes them irresistibly worthy of our attention.
Danny Driver, BBC Scottish SO, Rebecca Miller - Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade, Dorothy Howell: Piano Concertos (2017)

Amy Beach, Cécile Chaminade, Dorothy Howell: Piano Concertos (2017)
The Romantic Piano Concerto Series, Volume 70
Danny Driver, piano; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Rebecca Miller, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 265 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 163 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68130 | Time: 01:09:31

Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches its 70th album with this program of three concertos by women. The ongoing success of the series suggests that audiences are ready and waiting for wider repertoire, and pianist Danny Driver and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Rebecca Miller deliver a real find here. The Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 45, of American composer Amy Beach has been performed and recorded, but it's been in search of a recording that captures the autobiographical quality of the work, well sketched out in the booklet notes by Nigel Simeone. Essentially, Beach faced creative repression from her religious mother and to a lesser extent from her husband, who allowed her to compose, but only rarely to perform. These experiences, it may be said, poured out in this towering Brahmsian, four-movement piano concerto, which sets up an unusual quality of struggle between soloists and orchestra. It's this dynamic that's so well captured by Driver and Miller (who happen to be married to each other). Sample the opening movement, which has lacked this quality in earlier performances.
Joanne Polk - Nostalgia: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Joanne Polk - Nostalgia: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 71:04 minutes | 1,03 GB
Classical | Label: Steinway & Sons, Official Digital Download

Steinway & Sons releases Nostalgia - Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2 from pianist Joanne Polk. This is a wonderful companion to Polk's highly lauded first Volume of music by Chaminade, The Flatterer. The works of Chaminade boast structure, architecture, beauty and harmonic interest and they strikingly display a mastery of instrumental idioms that make her works a joy to perform and to hear.
Joanne Polk - Nostalgia: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Joanne Polk - Nostalgia: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 71:04 minutes | 1,03 GB
Classical | Label: Steinway & Sons, Official Digital Download

Steinway & Sons releases Nostalgia - Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2 from pianist Joanne Polk. This is a wonderful companion to Polk's highly lauded first Volume of music by Chaminade, The Flatterer. The works of Chaminade boast structure, architecture, beauty and harmonic interest and they strikingly display a mastery of instrumental idioms that make her works a joy to perform and to hear.
Hiroko Ishimoto - Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers (2021)

Hiroko Ishimoto - Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 77:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Grand Piano | # GP844 | Recorded: 2019

This fascinating collection of rare and distinctive piano works, from the 18th century to the present, is inspired by stories of how women composers created music while meeting the expectations of family and society. Hiroko Ishimoto brings together a remarkably varied programme including works by Ana Bon who was ‘chamber music virtuosa’ at the Prussian court of King Frederick the Great, the bold harmonies of Vítĕzslava Kaprálová (a student of Martinů), as well as pieces by Amy Beach based on the calls of the hermit thrush, and so much more.

Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femmes (2022)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at March 20, 2023
Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femmes (2022)

Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femmes (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 211 Mb | Total time: 79:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR574 | Recorded: 2020

Was the golden age of the piano that of a defeat for female composers? If they occupied an important place in ancient and baroque music, the bourgeois society which emerges from the Enlightenment limits their access to the conservatory and to the quarry. Marie-Catherine Girod explores this key moment and reveals to us the talent of the resistance fighters of the classical and romantic periods, and of the first modernism, those whose history has retained the name, such as Fanny Mendelssohn or Clara Schumann, or of whom she is rediscovering it today.
Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead - Komponistinnen - Women Composers - Compositrices (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead - Komponistinnen - Women Composers - Compositrices (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 57:36 minutes | 906 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Solo Musica, Official Digital Download

The second recording of the lied duo on Solo Musica presents the diverse works of composers from Romanticism to contemporary music with 24 songs by 24 female composers. For the Clara SCHUMANN anniversary in 2019, the Swiss soprano Franziska HEINZEN and the British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin MEAD examined the work of women composers - and discovered a valuable treasure trove of rarely known songs.
Finghin Collins - The bright day is done (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Finghin Collins - The bright day is done (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:23 minutes | 937 MB
Classical | Label: Claves Records, Official Digital Download

“I’ve just listened to the entire recording of the Ros Tapestry Suite”, she said, “without looking at the booklet. And one of the pieces that stood out to me was “Midday” by Gerald Barry. I started thinking about creating a programme based around different times of the day.”

Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femme (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 26, 2021
Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femme (2021)

Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femme (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 210 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 183 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:40
Classical | Label: Mirare

Was the golden age of the piano that of a defeat for female composers? If they occupied an important place in ancient and baroque music, the bourgeois society which emerges from the Enlightenment limits their access to the conservatory and to the quarry. Marie-Catherine Girod explores this key moment and reveals to us the talent of the resistance fighters of the classical and romantic periods, and of the first modernism, those whose history has retained the name, such as Fanny Mendelssohn or Clara Schumann, or of whom she is rediscovering it today.
Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femme (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femme (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 79:40 minutes | 1,09 GB
Classical | Label: Mirare, Official Digital Download

Was the golden age of the piano that of a defeat for female composers? If they occupied an important place in ancient and baroque music, the bourgeois society which emerges from the Enlightenment limits their access to the conservatory and to the quarry.