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

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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.



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: CHAN 10283


  • UPC: 095115128329


  • Label: Chandos


  • Composer: Alice Mary Smith


  • Conductor: Howard Shelley


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Mozart Players


  • Performer: Angela Malsbury



Works:


  1. Symphony in A minor

    Composer: Alice Mary Smith

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players

    Conductor: Howard Shelley


  2. Andante for Clarinet and Orchestra

    Composer: Alice Mary Smith

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players

    Performer: Angela Malsbury (Clarinet)

    Conductor: Howard Shelley


  3. Symphony in C minor

    Composer: Alice Mary Smith

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players

    Conductor: Howard Shelley