BBC Radio 3 is to celebrate the lost works of five female composers as part of a project to mark International Women’s Day (8 March).
The initiative, presented in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and administered by BBC Wales, aims to shine a light on the achievements of unjustly neglected female composers of the past by recording their previously unrecorded works with the BBC Orchestras and Choirs and the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
The newly-recorded works - some of which will have been hidden in archives, libraries or private collections for decades, unheard since their first performance - will be premiered on Radio 3 on International Women’s Day next year (8 March 2018).
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), a Russian pedagogue and pianist who taught Stravinsky; Marianna Martines (1744-1813), an Austrian who enjoyed fame throughout Europe in her lifetime; Florence B Price (1887-1953), Augusta Holmès (1847-1903) and Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941).
All five academics have now been invited to choose a major, previously unrecorded work by their composer for the BBC Orchestras and Choirs to record for broadcast on Radio 3. In some cases this will involve creating orchestral parts from an original manuscript for the first time ever, and it is likely that some of the music chosen will not have been heard since its first performance, centuries ago.
Edwina Wolstencroft, BBC Radio 3 editor and diversity lead, said: ‘Radio 3 is committed to broadcasting remarkable music and culture, and celebrating high quality work. We are therefore very excited to embark on this ground-breaking project to bring incredible works by female composers, forgotten for years, to the large modern-day audiences they deserve. It is a privilege to help celebrate the musical genius of these women in its own right.’
BBC Radio 3’s schedule today sees six renowned female composers taking over the schedule, guest-editing and curating parts of regular programmes.
Alissa Firsova taking over Breakfast, Sally Beamish at the reins for Essential Classics, Tansy Davies in charge of Afternoon on 3, Errollyn Wallen curating In Tune, Annette Peacock in the studio for Late Junction, and Kerry Andrew sharing her own Late Junction Mixtape.
Listen here.
The initiative, presented in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and administered by BBC Wales, aims to shine a light on the achievements of unjustly neglected female composers of the past by recording their previously unrecorded works with the BBC Orchestras and Choirs and the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
The newly-recorded works - some of which will have been hidden in archives, libraries or private collections for decades, unheard since their first performance - will be premiered on Radio 3 on International Women’s Day next year (8 March 2018).
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), a Russian pedagogue and pianist who taught Stravinsky; Marianna Martines (1744-1813), an Austrian who enjoyed fame throughout Europe in her lifetime; Florence B Price (1887-1953), Augusta Holmès (1847-1903) and Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941).
All five academics have now been invited to choose a major, previously unrecorded work by their composer for the BBC Orchestras and Choirs to record for broadcast on Radio 3. In some cases this will involve creating orchestral parts from an original manuscript for the first time ever, and it is likely that some of the music chosen will not have been heard since its first performance, centuries ago.
Edwina Wolstencroft, BBC Radio 3 editor and diversity lead, said: ‘Radio 3 is committed to broadcasting remarkable music and culture, and celebrating high quality work. We are therefore very excited to embark on this ground-breaking project to bring incredible works by female composers, forgotten for years, to the large modern-day audiences they deserve. It is a privilege to help celebrate the musical genius of these women in its own right.’
BBC Radio 3’s schedule today sees six renowned female composers taking over the schedule, guest-editing and curating parts of regular programmes.
Alissa Firsova taking over Breakfast, Sally Beamish at the reins for Essential Classics, Tansy Davies in charge of Afternoon on 3, Errollyn Wallen curating In Tune, Annette Peacock in the studio for Late Junction, and Kerry Andrew sharing her own Late Junction Mixtape.
Listen here.
