Swedish composer and organist Elfrida Andrée was determined to do it all. She advocated for legal changes so women could work as organists and telegraph operators, and she wanted people to know that women could compose significant works. We'll hear Elfrida Andrée's Symphony No. 2 on this episode of Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Arabesque No. 1
Helene Grimaud, piano
Album: Memory
DG 29051
Manuel Infante: Three Andalusian Dances
Misha Dichter, piano | Cipa Dichter, piano
Aspen Music Festival and School, Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO
Claude Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet
Todd Palmer, clarinet | Stephen Prutsman, piano
Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111: Preludes to Act 1 & Act 3
Oslo Philharmonic | Ingo Metzmacher, conductor
EBU, Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
Hour 2
Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun: Part 1
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Album: Road to the Sun
BMG Modern
Arnold Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstucke (1894)
Emanuel Ax, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Pat Metheny: Four Paths of Light, Pt. 2
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Chamber Music Northwest, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA
Elfrida Andrée: Symphony No. 2 in A minor
ROCO | Delyana Lazarova, conductor
ROCO, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX
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