Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - Smyth: The Prison (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:04:01 | 268 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Chandos
August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of th e 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting women in the US the right to vote. A fitting time then for our release of the World Premier Recording of Ethel Smyths late masterpiece The Prison. Smyth left home at nineteen to study composition in Leipzig. In the company of Clara Schumann and her teacher Heinrich von Herzogenberg, she met and won the admiration of composers such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvoák, and Grieg. Smyth was the first woman to have an opera performed at the Met, in 1903.