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Afternoon Concert: Three Centuries of Women Composers: Thursday

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Three Centuries of Women Composers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Three Centuries of Women Composers, Thursday

Features Cecile Chaminade's little-known symphonic ballet Callirhoë.

Music from France and the UK, including Chaminade, Holmes, Maconchy, Lefanu and Lutyens, recorded by BBC orchestras and choirs as part of our celebration of women composers.

Cecile Chaminade's little-known symphonic ballet Callirhoë provides our theatrical matinee this week, in which we celebrate female composers in recordings from the BBC orchestras. Plus music by British composers including Elizabeth Maconchy, Nicola Lefanu, Anne Dudley and Elisabeth Lutyens.
A prolific composer of piano miniatures and salon music, Chaminade’s contribution to the orchestral repertoire is all too often overlooked. Yet in her twenties Chaminade was taking Paris by storm with a very different style of music, writing large-scale chamber works, orchestral suites, ballet and opera. Conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in this recording of her little-known symphonic ballet is Martin Yates, who painstakingly researched and edited the complete ballet music from various original scores. Don't worry too much about the convoluted plot depicting the love story of Alcmaeon and the captive princess Callirhoë; be reassured that all ends well and just luxuriate in the glorious music.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Cecile Chaminade: Callirhoë, ballet symphonique, op.37
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor

c.3.05pm
Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet no. 3
Signum Quartet

c.3.20pm
Nicola Lefanu: The Hidden Landscape
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Norman Del Mar, conductor

c.3.45pm
Augusta Holmes: Roland Furieux
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Valentina Peleggi, conductor

c.4.15pm
Anne Dudley: Northern Lights
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor

c.4.30pm
Elisabeth Lutyens: Quincunx, op.44 
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Josephine Nendick, soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Norman Del Mar, conductor

Afternoon Concert: Three Centuries of Women Composers

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

BBC orchestras and choirs celebrate female musical creativity that traverses the globe.

As part of BBC Radio 3's International Women's Day celebrations, for the first time, every note of the music in Afternoon Concert all of this week is written by a woman.

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