First Ladies - Three Romantic Violin Sonatas / Vogel, Cesetti

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
August 20, 2021
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ANDREE BONIS SMYTH
    • PERFORMER
      Vogel, Cesetti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 20, 2021
    • UPC
      5060640070134
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCN0013
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Elfrida Andrée

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    2. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Elfrida Andrée

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    3. III. Finale: Allegro moderato e risoluto

      Composer: Elfrida Andrée

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    4. I. Moderato

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    5. II. Presto

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    6. III. Lento (Thème populaire grec recueilli par Bourgault-Ducoudray)

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    7. IV. Final: Con moto

      Composer: Mélanie Bonis

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    8. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ethel Smyth

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    9. II. Scherzo: Allegro grazioso

      Composer: Ethel Smyth

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    10. III. Romanze: Andante grazioso

      Composer: Ethel Smyth

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti

    11. IV. Finale: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ethel Smyth

      Performer: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti


One could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face - family opposition for Mel Bonis in France and Ethel Smyth in England, institutional conservatism for Elfrida Andrée in Sweden. It has taken a century and more for that initial prejudice to fall away, and they are now beginning to attract a fair hearing for their music. What ultimately matters, of course, is not whether composers are male or female but whether they write good music, and these three sonatas - melodically expansive, rhythmically vivacious, harmonically warm - point to the musical riches that further exploration of their creators' output will uncover.