New Composers

BBC - Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century (2016)
HDTV | 1920x1080 | .MKV/AVC @ 3635 Kbps | 3x~58min | 5.11 GiB
Audio: English AAC 130 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in the 19th century. In an age of political and industrial revolution, she tells how music became the leading art form.

Eighteenth-century American harpsichord music isn't something you hear everyday, but the delightful sounds of Enlightenment in the New World can be appreciated by any keyboard lover. Using a French harpsichord built in 1774, Olivier Baumont performs lively (not to mention "enlightened") works by seldom-heard composers William Selby, Alexander Reinagle, Victor Pelissier, someone named simply Mr. Newman, and a few others. There's nothing monumental here–James Hewitt's "Yankee Doodle with 9 Variations" may be too silly to fully appreciate–but the playing is exquisite and there are some great discoveries.

Female Composers [25 CDs Box Set] (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (*image+.cue, log) | Run Time: 01:03:28:35 | 6.36 Gb | Scans 13.6 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

What would it mean to 'compose like a woman'? The present collection answers the question, in a literal sense, while undoing the premise on which the question was asked in the first place. In social and historical terms, it means enjoying privileges of upbringing, education and/or wealth that were historically denied to the vast majority of women. It means, on the part of the women represented here, a single-minded determination in pursuit of their vocation, helping them to overcome prejudice and sexism in a cultural, social and political milieu that has consistently denied women the opportunity to find and express their own voice in music.