Music by women composers, from the 12th-century nun
Hildegard of Bingen to the American folk-song collector Ruth Crawford Seeger. Also three
British composers, born 48 years after one another: Ethel Smyth , Elisabeth Lutyens and Judith Weir. Two remarkable performers - Jacqueline Du Pre and Jane Glover ; and one piece by a token man:
Songs of Womanhood, by Rutland Boughton.
Producer Christopher Marshall