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Originally Posted by Elgarian
I bought her Gaelic Symphony a few years ago, and grew quite fond of it. It sounds very much of its time - not that there's anything wrong with that. Her story is quite a moving one: abandoning almost all performing at her husband's request, only resuming her career after he died. That's a lot to be asked to give up.
But to anyone with an interest in that late Romantic style, her Gaelic Symphony will be of interest I think, and the experiment won't cost much if you buy the Naxos disc. If she'd been a man, or if the music had carried the name of Parry or Stanford, a lot more fuss would have been made of it, I reckon. |
Yes, this is the recording I have coming and I'm looking forward to hearing it. I've heard nothing but good things about her music.
I think it is interesting that she is a female composing classical music. I mean this is quite unheard of, but not that it hasn't happened before. Look at Carla Schumann or Germaine Tailleferre they were both good female composers, but they never achieved the kind of success their male compatriots attained.
Anyway, it will be an interesting listen for sure and I look forward to it.