Hommage To Women Composers
Navona, 2019
8/10
Listen to Hommage To Women Composers
Together Iris Graffman Wenglin and the now late Ruth Lomon come together here to illuminate musical scores written by women that were often buried or didn’t see the recognition they deserved. The pair cover a lot of ground here, illuminating 11 artists as they guide us from The Romantic Period up until the late 20th century.
The 5 parts of “Five Caprices” starts the listen with plenty of rhythm and sophistication, and this extends to the textured “Three Piano Duets After Pictures By Paul Klee”, as well as adventurous and often louder journey of “Children’s Scenes”.
At over an hour, though the instrumentation is just dueling pianos, the pair are never short on stunning landscapes, as each track unfolds with intrigue and grace as they do justice to work by Cara Wieck Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Louise Talma, Miriam Gideon, Barbara Pentland, Margo Richter, Thea Musgrave, Ruth Lomon, Jacqueline Fontyn, Marta Ptaszynska, and Shulamit Ran.
Travels well with: Mira J. Spektor- Daytime & Night Songs; Katherine Jolly- Preach Sister Preach