Artist: Annette-Barbara Vogel, Durval Cesetti
Album: First Ladies: Three Romantic Violin Sonatas
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 58:34
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 1,05 GB

Tracklist:

01. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Andrée: Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro con spirito (05:24)
02. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Andrée: Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: II. Andante cantabile (02:14)
03. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Andrée: Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: III. Finale. Allegro moderato e risoluto (06:16)
04. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: I. Moderato (05:35)
05. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: II. Presto (03:12)
06. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: III. Lento (04:58)
07. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: IV. Finale. Con moto (06:11)
08. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Smyth: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7: I. Allegro moderato (08:25)
09. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Smyth: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7: II. Scherzo. Allegro grazioso (02:48)
10. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Smyth: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7: III. Romanze. Andante grazioso (07:41)
11. Annette-Barbara Vogel & Durval Cesetti – Smyth: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7: IV. Finale. Allegro vivace (05:44)

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One could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face – family opposition for Mel Bonis in France and Ethel Smyth in England, institutional conservatism for Elfrida Andrée in Sweden. It has taken a century and more for that initial prejudice to fall away, and they are now beginning to attract a fair hearing for their music. What ultimately matters, of course, is not whether composers are male or female but whether they write good music, and these three sonatas – melodically expansive, rhythmically vivacious, harmonically warm – point to the musical riches that further exploration of their creators’ output will uncover.