Voices of Women

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Label
Affetto Records
Release Date
July 6, 2018
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Fetrow, Henry
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 06, 2018
    • UPC
      888295694124
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AF1805
    • LABEL
      Affetto Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Arie a voce sola, Op. 8: Che si puo fare

      Composer: Barbara Strozzi

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    2. Manon, Act III: Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Gavotte)

      Composer: Jules Massenet

    3. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 3. Saint Ita's Vision

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    4. Still

      Composer: Paola Prestini

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Rebecca Obert, Mila Henry

    5. Light

      Composer: Gity Razaz

      Performer: Mila Henry

    6. The Ballad of Baby Doe, Act I: The Silver Aria (Gold is a fine thing)

      Composer: Douglas Stuart Moore

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    7. Sehnsucht

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    8. Sweeney Todd, Act I: Green Finch and Linnet Bird

      Composer: Stephen Sondheim

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    9. Banalités, FP 107: No. 1. Chansons d'Orkenise

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    10. 9 Short Piano Pieces: No. 2. —

      Composer: Virginia Seay

      Performer: Mila Henry

    11. 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    12. Joshua, HWV 64, Act I: O had I Jubal's lyre

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    13. No. 1. O Mistress Mine

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    14. No. 3. Fairy Lullaby

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    15. 3 Cowboy Songs: No. 1. Bucking Bronco

      Composer: Libby Larsen

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    16. Plaintes d'Amour

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    17. My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced All Night

      Composer: Frederick Loewe

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry

    18. Pilgrim's Hymn

      Composer: Heather Fetrow

      Performer: Heather Fetrow, Mila Henry


Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned began as an idea in a workshop soprano and album producer Heather Fetrow attended called The Twenty-first Century Singer with Soprano Susan Mohini Kane in Los Angeles in the summer of 2016. The focus of the album grew further to encompass the goal of honoring female composers as a result of collaboration with renowned soprano Dr. Julianne Baird in Philadelphia in December of 2016. These events coincided with the Women's March in Washington DC the next month in January of 2017, lending a sense of timeliness to the project. The focus of an album of songs by women composers and other songs about women is unique, and brings to the fore the vast social change the world is undergoing with respect to women in our society, both in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Each piece addresses this separately from different points of view, in some cases from a previous age where the standards of women's expectations were very different than today. The World Premiere of "Still" by outstanding and innovative composer Paola Prestini, sung as a duet by sisters, brings the album's concept full circle with a song composed for and dedicated to this album. Also included are two piano pieces performed by Mila Henry, both by female composers, "Light" by Iranian composer Gity Razaz and "No. 2" from "Nine Short Piano Pieces" composed by Ms. Henry's mother-in-law. In all, this is an album for the age of the woman and about the age in which we live.