Vogel Cesetti - First Ladies - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. Album Tracks 1. Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Allegro con spirito 2. Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Andante cantabile 3. Violin Sonata in B Flat Major~Finale. Allegro moderato e risoluto 4. Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Moderato 5. Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Presto 6. Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Lento (Thème Populaire Grec Recueilli Par Bourgault-Ducoudray) 7. Violin Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 112~Final. Con moto 8. Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Allegro Moderato 9. Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Scherzo. Allegro grazioso 10. Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Romanze. Andante grazioso 11. Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7~Finale. Allegro vivace