Bacchini, Sara
(un)veiled: Women Composers Through The 19th And 20th S
The album (UN)VEILED. Women composers through the 19th and 20th Centuries unfolds as a finely chiselled journey that restores to the piano repertoire a long-submerged strand of musical modernity. The works of Amy Beach, Clara Wieck Schumann, Ccile Chaminade and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, together with Louise Farrencs Impromptu, demonstrate how the character piece and lyrical miniature can become privileged sites of symphonic breadth and formal experiment. From the Trois morceaux caractristiques op. 28 to the Quatre pièces caractristiques op. 5, from the theatrical world of Pierrette op. 41 and Arlequine op. 53 to the poised structure of the Vier Lieder fdas Pianoforte op. 8, the programme charts a constellation of womens voices which, from within the salon and the domestic sphere, subtly unsettles and rewrites the nineteenth-century canon.