MUSIFÉE

Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

An extensive collection highlighting the many overlooked Romantic composers of nineteenth-century France.

This eight-CD set of under-performed compositions by twenty-one French women. The range of chamber music, orchestral works, piano pieces and songs captures Romantic nineteenth-century France with composers such as Marie Jaëll, Pauline Viardot, Louise Farrenc and Mel Bonis to the lesser known Charlotte Sohy, Marthe Grumbach, Hedwige Chrétien and Madeleine Lemariey.

With several hundred performers, soloists include soprano Anaïs Constans,tenor Cyrille Dubois, pianist Roberto Prosseda, and mezzo-soprano Aude Extrémo.

We feature Marie Jaëll’s Voix du printemps: No.2, Dans le sentier in our playlist Weekend Classics.

Love in Exile

Grammy award-winning singer Arooj Aftab collaborates with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instramentalist Shahzad Ismaily on this improvisatory album Love in Exile.

Mélusine

Grammy award-winning jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant uses the story of European folkloric legend of Mélusine to reveal secrets and explore identity.

Mendelssohn

Award-winning ensemble Consone Quartet begin their series of Mendelssohn’s complete string quartets, here with fresh interpretation of his ‘1823’ quartet on gut strings.

Racing The Storm

The second collaboration between Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini and Belgian duo The Colorist Orchestra.

Safe Ground

Filipino-American singer-songwriter Sandrayati releases her intimate debut album exploring love, identity and courage.

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