Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies, Etc / Howard Shelley, Et Al
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:
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Release Date: March 22, 2005
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UPC: 095115128329
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Catalog Number: CHAN 10283
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Label: Chandos
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Number of Discs: 1
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Composer: Alice Mary Smith
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Conductor: Howard Shelley
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Orchestra/Ensemble: London Mozart Players
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Performer: Angela Malsbury