Tasmin Little Plays Clara Schumann/Dame Ethel Smyth/Amy Beach

The renowned violinist Tasmin Little presents a line-up of three women composers whose lives share some features but also significant differences that illustrate the complex lives of female musicians. Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth, and Amy Beach all came from families that encouraged their musical interests but balked, in varying degrees, at professional training and engagement. All three composers draw on the influence of Robert Schumann and Brahms; Beach and Smyth, in particular, were fond of metrical and motivic manipulation. Tasmin Little plays this music, so close to her heart, with her usual warmth and dexterity. The manuscript of Clara Schumann's final chamber work, 'Three Romances', declares it 'for piano and violin', an ordering reflected in the relative complexity of the parts, the florid passagework here played beautifully by Little's long-term collaborator, John Lenehan.

1: I. Allegro Moderato
2: II. Scherzo. Molto Vivace
3: III. Largo Con Dolore
4: IV. Allegro Con Fuoco
5: No. 1 in D-flat Major. Andante Molto
6: No. 2 in G Minor. Allegretto
7: No. 3 in B-flat Major. Leidenschaftlich Schnell
8: I. Allegro Moderato
9: II. Scherzo. Allegro Grazioso
10: III. Romanze. Andante Grazioso
11: IV. Finale. Allegro Vivace
12: Romance in a Major, Op. 23
13: Invocation, Op. 55

Composer: Amy Beach, Ethel Smyth, Clara Schumann

Number of Discs: 1

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