Sunday Morning - 07/09/2008

Iain focuses on musical heroines and is joined by Peggy Reynolds to talk about hers. With music from some notable women, including Hildegard of Bingen, Martha Argerich, and Joan Tower, and music about women - including Mary Stuart, Joan of Arc, and St Teresa of Avila. Purcell: Bonduca Overture The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra /Roy Goodman (directing) Hyperion CDA67001/3 Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au bucher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) French Radio Choir/ Maitrise de Radio France/ Orchestra National de France/ Seiji Ozawa DG 4294122 Liszt: Reminiscences de Norma S394 Jorge Bolet (piano) Decca 4366482 Rubbra: Mass in Honour of St Teresa of Avila Voces Sacrae/ Judy Martin (director) ASV CDDCA1093 Lennox Berkeley: Let mine eyes see thee, 4 poems of St Teresa of Avila Op 27/ 3 Catherine Wyn-Rogers BBCNOW/ Richard Hickox Chandos CHAN 10265 Elena Kats Chernin: Peggy’s Minute Rag Nicola Sweeney/ Sarah Nicholls Signum Classics SIGCD058 Gluck: Iphigenie de Tauride Maria Callas, Dino Dondi, Francesco Albanese, Anselmo Colzani, Fiorenza Cossotto, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano MYTO CD00139 Dello Joio: The Triumph of St. Joan Symphony/1. The Maid The Atlantic Sinfonietta/ Edvard Tchivzel (conductor) Koch 371672 Liszt: Jeanne d’Arc au bucher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) Marilyn Schmiege (mezzo), Donald Sulzen (piano) Orfeo C440981 Augusta Holmes: Andromede Rheinland-Pfalf Phil/ Samuel Friedmann Marco Polo 8223449