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J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1003 & BW
$20.99CDHaenssler Classic
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King of Kings - Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
$21.99CDChandos
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Organ Recital - Niklas Jahn
$19.99CDNaxos
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Circa Diem
$20.99CDCyprés Records
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Fields of Wonder
$20.99CDSignum Classics
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J. S. Bach & Sons: Flute Sonatas
$20.99CDChannel Classics
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J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Arr. for Double Reed Trio b
$18.99CDLeaf Music
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L’apotheose de Corelli - Triosonatas
$16.99CDChallenge Classics
Apr 10, 2026CC 720033 -
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Whitacre: The Pacific Has No Memory / Anne Akiko Meyers
$8.99CDAvie Records
Jan 30, 2026AV2853 -
Transcription as Translation - Beethoven & Smetana
$19.99CDAvie Records
Dec 12, 2025AV2822 -
Miho Hazama, J.S. Bach, John Zorn, & Claude Debussy: Crossin
$19.99CDAvie Records
Feb 06, 2026AV2807 -
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Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna; Runestadt: Earth Symphony
$19.99CDBR Klassik
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Kevin Puts: Concerto for Orchestra, Silent Night Elegy & Vir
$20.99CDDelos
Sep 19, 2025DE 3620
Complete Symphonies; Wind Concertos
That Sweet City – Leighton: Veris Gratia, Op. 6; Vaughan Wi
J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1003 & BW
Female Composers
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. Only with movements of emancipation in the last century, and much more rapidly in the last 50 years, has this situation begun to be addressed and corrected. What composing like a woman does not mean - as the music in this collection makes clear - is a definable set of qualities or characteristics to the music itself which would distinguish the work of female composers from the music composed by men.
This remarkable set gathers many individual recordings of music by women composers, which Brilliant Classics has quietly yet actively championed in their catalogue for decades, uniting it with exciting new outings, so that a comprehensive historical picture of the highly varied struggles and successes of women composers through the ages to our present time are chronicled and celebrated.
Other information:
- Recordings date from 1994-2024
- Booklet in English contains liner notes by Peter Quantrill
- The revival of interest in female classical composers reflects a growing recognition of their overlooked contributions to music history.
For centuries, women composers were marginalized, their works overshadowed by their male counterparts. However, recent efforts by musicians, scholars, and institutions have brought these composers into the spotlight, highlighting the richness and diversity of their compositions.
- This renewed focus stems from a broader movement toward inclusivity in the arts, challenging traditional narratives that have historically excluded women. The rise of feminist musicology has also played a key role, offering fresh perspectives on these composers' lives and works.
- This comprehensive box set offers a wide spectrum of works by female composers, from the Medieval mystic Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179), through the Renaissance Isabella Leonarda (baptized 1620-1704), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640) und Barbara Strozzi (baptized 1619-1677), traversing the Baroque and Classical eras, and arriving in the contemporary field, with composers such as Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) and Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969).
- A long due homage to the art and voice of female composers, spanning nearly a thousand years!
King of Kings - Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
Organ Recital - Niklas Jahn
Still: Songs & Piano Music
Circa Diem
Fields of Wonder
Alfred Brendel plays Busoni & Liszt
J. S. Bach & Sons: Flute Sonatas
Hommage a Jodie Devos
J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Arr. for Double Reed Trio b
L’apotheose de Corelli - Triosonatas
Wonderland / The King's Singers
Wonderland is full of magic and myth. Containing exclusively works commissioned by The King’s Singers across their 55 years, the album celebrates their trademark musical storytelling, with no shortage of comedy. György Ligeti’s six Nonsense Madrigals, each setting playful children’s poetry or extracts from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, provide a musical spine to the album, commemorating 100 years since the composer’s birth in 1923. From just over 50 years ago, the fairytale The Musicians of Bremen (1972) – set to music by the Australian composer and Master of the Queen’s Music Malcolm Williamson – sits alongside Time Piece (1972) by Paul Patterson, which tells an eccentric alternative creation story. These myth-based works have recent companions such as Judith Bingham’s extended work Tricksters (2019), which unearths what could happen if miscreants from different world mythologies could come together for the first time, and Ola Gjeilo’s A Dream within a Dream which questions the very nature of perception and reality. The album also features the legendary Japanese film and game composer Joe Hisaishi’s first ever choral work, I was there (2022), focussing on the cultural memory of tragic events such as 9/11 and the 2011 Japan Earthquake. Themes of hope and positivity, centred on the natural world, emerge in Makiko Kinoshita’s Ashita no uta (Song for tomorrow) (2020) and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ Alive (2022).
Whitacre: The Pacific Has No Memory / Anne Akiko Meyers
Transcription as Translation - Beethoven & Smetana
Miho Hazama, J.S. Bach, John Zorn, & Claude Debussy: Crossin
Reimagined - Bach: Goldberg Variations / Podger, Brecon Baroque
Imagining how Bach himself might have transformed the Goldberg Variations for a chamber group, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque present a pioneering new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by Chad Kelly. Employing a variety of instrumental combinations from a typical Bach ensemble of single strings, oboe, flute, bassoon, and harpsichord, these newly-crafted Goldbergs illuminate exquisite responses to the various historical genres inherent in Bach’s scores.
This beloved masterpiece was composed through a period of personal tumult for Bach; two unsuccessful job applications, the premature death of his son Gottfried, and criticism of his music in a prominent Hamburg publication. Bach’s outpouring of beauty in the Goldberg Variations has long captured audience’s imaginations - Chad Kelly, Rachel Podger, and her fleet Brecon Baroque preserve the work’s exquisite intricacy whilst adding breadth, texture and color to its emotional backdrop. This revisioning of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a perfect transformation of the work for the modern era.
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna; Runestadt: Earth Symphony
Kevin Puts: Concerto for Orchestra, Silent Night Elegy & Vir
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
The Gondoliers
Ronald Stevenson - Piano Music, Vol. 8
Nico Muhly: With Eys Lift Up
BACKATOWN
CLARINET & HORN QUINTETS
BACH: SONATAS FOR VIOLA DA GAMBA BWV1027-29
CHRISTMAS WITH THE KING'S SINGERS
