Afternoon on 3 - Ulster Orchestra - Episode 2

For many centuries, women composers and performers were kept from public view. Tradition deemed it only proper that females confine themselves to the domestic arts and leave the concert hall to the men. Considered a novelty, women's music might be heard at best in drawing rooms and recital parlours. In today's Afternoon on 3, Katie Derham showcases some of the works which found their way into the repertoire, including those by Grace Williams, Lili Boulanger, Alice Mary Smith and Dorothy Howell. The premiere recording of a rediscovered work by Sir Charles Hubert Parry also features today, together with some of the finest Ulster Orchestra performances from the last year. Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Rhymes Ulster Orchestra Jane Glover (conductor) Haydn: Symphony No. 73 (La Chasse) Ulster Orchestra Kenneth Montgomery (conductor) Lili Boulanger: D'un soir triste; D'un matin de printemps Ulster Orchestra JoAnn Falletta (conductor) 2.50pm Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in A minor Ulster Orchestra Howard Shelley (conductor) Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Joanna MacGregor (piano) Ulster Orchestra Jane Glover (conductor) 3.55pm Parry: Proserpine Ulster Youth Choir (female voices) Ulster Orchestra Howard Shelley(conductor) Dorothy Howell: Lamia Ulster Orchestra Paul Watkins (conductor) Moeran: Sinfonietta Ulster Orchestra Kenneth Montgomery (conductor).