Ladies First - Sonatas For Violin And Piano

Description

« Ladies First » is a tribute to the women who composed music before the world was ready to listen to them! Rachel Kolly, with her 1732 Stradivarius, and Pallavi Mahidhara bring to life 75 years of music and rewrite a lost chapter of classical music. Absolute masterpieces rarely recorded that are just waiting to be discovered! According to a study by the Chair of Musicology at the University of Fribourg, three imperatives are needed for a composer to move from obscurity to the limelight: first, a biography of the artist must exist; or it must be mentioned, during the artist's lifetime, that he or she composes: through correspondence or music treaties. That said, nothing is less simple: often, these “good women” are only mentioned as magnificent performers but not as composers! It is written, in passing, that they dared to tinker with a few little works. But few were mentioned as full-fledged composers: this profession being reserved for men; even composition studies were sometimes simply forbidden to them by institutions or by their husbands. France in the 17th century even removed the word “compositrice” from its dictionary, although it previously existed.