Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies, Etc / Howard Shelley, Et Al

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
February 1, 2005
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SMITH, ALICE MARY
    • PERFORMER
      Angela, Howard, London Mozart Players, Malsbury, Shelley
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 01, 2005
    • UPC
      095115128329
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10283
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    3. III. Minuetto: Allegretto - Trio

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    4. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    5. Andante for Clarinet and Orchestra

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Performer: Angela Malsbury

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    6. I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    7. II. Allegretto amorevole

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    8. III. Allegro ma non troppo - Poco meno mosso - Tempo I

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley

    9. IV. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Alice Mary Smith

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Howard Shelley


The fact that these works have, until now, remained unrecorded perhaps bears witness to the fact that the discrimination confronted by Alice Mary Smith over a hundred years ago has still not been entirely eradicated. Smith wrote by far the greatest number of orchestral works of any ninteenth-century British woman composer and the success of her orchestral and choral works gave rise to a heated discussion as to whether a woman could ever compose a work of greatness. Her finely crafted and inventive music is the story of a wife and mother battling against prejudice and, in the eyes of her contemporaries at least, succeeding.