About
A programme of music conceived as a celebration of the successful struggle to gain female suffrage, giving voice to a range of perceptions and preoccupations as expressed by leading female thinkers and writers.
Janet Jennings has set to music words spoken and written by a range of women poets including Ursula Bethell, and Christina Rossetti, and iconic women prominent in the suffragette cause.
Track listing:
1 | Magnificat
2–4 | A Daughter of Eve
5–9 | Sit Down With Me Awhile
10–12 | Myself When Young
13 | Voices of Women
Stephanie Acraman, Mere Boynton, Catrin Johnsson, Jayne Tankersley and Felicity Tomkins | voice
Katherine Austin, Noelle Dannenbring, Rachel Fuller and Maria Mo | piano
Rachael Griffiths-Hughes | conductor
Maia-Dean Martin | violin
Yoshiko Tsuruta | marimba
Rachel Thomas | percussion
Duration
1h 6m 42s
Copyright
Atoll Records Ltd
Publisher note
Atoll Records
Imprint
ACD201