Buy the CD: Ten brand-new songs by British composers, setting poems by French women poets. The composers, commissioned by Alison Smart Fisher and Katharine Durran, are Cecilia McDowall, Shirley J. Thompson, Deirdre Gribbin, Kerry Andrew, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Grainne Mulvey, Emily Hall, Helen Neeves, Lesley-Jane Rogers and Millicent B. James. The songs tell a story of the awakening of love, deep happiness, a break-up, the agony of solitude, and a reconciliation with Nature at its heart. This CD represents the completion of the set released in 2004 called simply New French Song. A fascinating window into both current British music and eight centuries of French poetry from across the globe. A particularly welcome CD which seeks to redress the gender-balance in western classical music.
Buy the CD: Ten brand-new songs by British composers, setting poems by French women poets. The composers, commissioned by Alison Smart Fisher and Katharine Durran, are Cecilia McDowall, Shirley J. Thompson, Deirdre Gribbin, Kerry Andrew, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Grainne Mulvey, Emily Hall, Helen Neeves, Lesley-Jane Rogers and Millicent B. James. The songs tell a story of the awakening of love, deep happiness, a break-up, the agony of solitude, and a reconciliation with Nature at its heart. This CD represents the completion of the set released in 2004 called simply New French Song. A fascinating window into both current British music and eight centuries of French poetry from across the globe. A particularly welcome CD which seeks to redress the gender-balance in western classical music.
