She Composed 53 Pian... - Débora Halász - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

With the double CD “She Composed – Music by Women Composers”, an artistically compelling and culturally significant project comes to life—one that combines musical quality, pedagogical vision, and editorial care in an exemplary way. The album presents piano works by women composers from several centuries and diverse cultural backgrounds, thoughtfully arranged in ascending levels of difficulty: from short, characterful miniatures to large-scale works of considerable technical and expressive demands. The repertoire spans a wide historical and stylistic spectrum. It ranges from Baroque dance movements by Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre and Elisabetta de Gambarini, through Romantic piano literature by Emilie Mayer, Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Louise Farrenc, and Agathe Backer Grøndahl, to important voices of the 20th and 21st centuries such as Lili Boulanger, Mel Bonis, Karen Tanaka, Alicia Terzian, Dorothea Hofmann, and Philippine Schick. Latin American composers—including Florence Price, Teresa Carreño, María Matilde Alea, Beatriz Lockhart, and Lía Cimaglia Espinosa—are prominently featured, enriching the programme with folkloric, rhythmic, and urban influences. At the heart of the project lies its carefully designed pedagogical concept. The selected works accompany pianists from early stages of learning to an advanced, concert-ready level. Short pieces such as Florence Price’s Hoe Cake, Corn Cakeor Dorothee Eberhardt’s Das Kaninchen – melancholisch form the starting point, while substantial compositions like Lili Boulanger’s Thème et Variations or Philippine Schick’s Metamorphosen, Op. 52 mark the culmination of the journey. The result is a musical pathway that makes both technical development and growing expressive depth audible.

Label: Prospero | Origin: Holland