Mel Bonis
In January, Brilliant Classics is releasing what might be the most important collection of music by women composers.
This remarkable set gathers many individual recordings, which Brilliant Classics has championed in their catalogue for decades, uniting it with exciting new outings, so that a comprehensive historical picture of the highly varied struggles and successes of women composers through the ages to our present time are chronicled and celebrated.
The recordings date from 1994–2024 and offer a wide spectrum of works by female composers, from the Medieval mystic Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179), through the Renaissance Isabella Leonarda (baptized 1620-1704), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640) und Barbara Strozzi (baptized 1619-1677), traversing the Baroque and Classical eras, and arriving in the contemporary field, with composers such as Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) and Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969). The complete list is at the end of this article.
The performing artists comprise Barbara Zanichelli, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Renata Dubinskaite, Francesca Lanfranco, Simone Pierini, Linda di Carlo, Gaia Sokoli, Mark Viner, Luca Quintavalle, Nare Karoyan, Salvatore Fortunato, Fabio Perciballi, Cinzia Milani, Morta Grigaliunaite, Ivan Sokolov, Marina Comparato, Elisa Triulzi, Ekaterina Litvintseva, Catharina Kroeger, Monica Lonero, Martina Frezzotti, Ensemble San Felice, Cappella Artemisia, Capella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini, Canto Fiorito, Allegri String Quartet, Trio Rigamonti, Federico Bardazzi, Candace Smith, Gian Luca Lastraioli and Sergey Galaktionov
So this box (# 97434) is a welcome homage to the art and voice of female composers, spanning nearly a thousand years!
List of composers
Amy Beach, Alma Mahler, Augusta Read Thomas, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Bianca Maria Meda, Barbara Strozzi, Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Dora Pejačević, Errollyn Wallen, Fanny Mendelssohn, Francesca Caccini, Germaine Tailleferre, Galina Ustvolskaya, Grazyna Bacewicz, Graciane Finzi, Hildegard Von Bingen, Helène De Montgeroult, Ida Presti, Isabella Leonarda, Koharik Alis Gazarossian, Karola Obermüller, Louise Farrenc, Misato Mochizuki, María Luisa Anido, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, Mel Bonis, Pauline Viardot Garcia, Patrizia Montanaro, Rebecca Clarke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Santa Ratniece, Tania Léon, Ursula Mamlok, Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre
