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Celebrating Women in Classical Music. Celebrate centuries’ worth of music from women composers and artists. Discover how women have helped shape the classical music genre on YourClassical's Women's History Month Stream.

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  • 4:37 PM

    Harp Sonata

    Sophia Dussek

    Harp Showpieces

    Judy Loman, harp

    7:12
  • 4:25 PM

    Within Her Arms

    Anna Clyne

    Shorthand

    The Knights

    Eric Jacobsen, conductor

    12:12
  • 4:19 PM

    Rites for the Afterlife: Inscriptions from the Book of the Dead

    Stacy Garrop

    Ghost Light

    Akropolis Reed Quintet

    4:53
  • 4:12 PM

    Lamento

    Barbara Strozzi

    Heroines of Love & Loss

    Ruby Hughes, soprano

    7:52
  • 4:01 PM

    Fires

    Raminta Serksnyte

    BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES NOS. 4 &5

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    10:32
  • 3:58 PM

    Gottingen

    Barbara

    Who's Afraid Of...?

    Boulanger Trio

    3:09
  • 3:46 PM

    Coronation Procession

    Ruth Gipps

    Gipps: Orchestral Works, Volume 3

    BBC Philharmonic

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    7:45
  • 3:42 PM

    Upon Your Heart

    Eleanor Daley

    All Things Are Quite Silent

    Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge

    Anna Lapwood, conductor

    3:51
  • 3:32 PM

    Terena Caritate

    Helen Leach

    Diary of the Bee: Chamber Works by Helen Leach

    Victoria String Quartet

    John Bradbury, clarinet

    10:00
  • 3:17 PM

    Poem for Cello and Orchestra

    Henriette Bosmans

    Cello Concertos

    Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Ed Spanjaard, conductor

    Dimitri Ferschtman, cello

    14:31
  • 3:14 PM

    The Shadows of Midnight

    Pauline Viardot-Garcia

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    Aude Extremo, mezzo-soprano

    2:44
  • 3:04 PM

    Into the Faded Air

    Helen Grime

    Helen Grime: Night Songs

    Halle Orchestra

    Jamie Phillips, conductor

    9:23
  • 3:03 PM

    Northern Lights: Aurora Rising

    Kati Agocs

    Crossing the Ocean

    Bridget Kibbey, harp

    1:42
  • 2:47 PM

    Concertstuck

    Cecile Chaminade

    Beach, Chaminade, Howell: Piano Concertos

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Rebecca Miller, conductor

    Danny Driver, piano

    14:51
  • 2:32 PM

    Plea for Peace

    Augusta Read Thomas

    Jennie Oh Brown: Giantess

    Jennie Oh Brown, alto flute

    5:44
  • 2:31 PM

    Peace I leave with you

    Amy Beach

    All Things Are Quite Silent

    Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge

    Anna Lapwood, conductor

    1:34
  • 2:16 PM

    Three Romances

    Clara Schumann

    Romance: The Music of Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    13:38
  • 2:12 PM

    Bubble Gun

    Anna Meredith

    Jess Gillam: Rise

    Jess Gillam Ensemble

    Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone

    3:34
  • 2:04 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Military": Finale Militaire

    Emilie Mayer

    Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor

    8:17
  • 1:49 PM

    Lamia

    Dorothy Howell

    British Tone Poems, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    14:25
  • 1:47 PM

    This Day

    Elizabeth Maconchy

    This Day: Celebrating a Century of British Women's Right to Vote

    Blossom Street

    Hilary Campbell, conductor

    1:39
  • 1:34 PM

    Mystic Dance

    Charlotte Sohy

    Aux etoiles: French Symphonic Poems

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor

    12:42
  • 1:28 PM

    Radhe-Shyam

    Alice Coltrane

    Take Me To The Water

    Ashley Jackson, harp

    5:37
  • 1:24 PM

    Valse Lente

    (Marie) Clemence de Grandval

    GRANDVAL: Oboe Works

    Lajos Lencses, English horn

    3:59
  • 1:12 PM

    Dear heart, why will you use me so?

    Dale Trumbore

    Chamber Music by James Joyce

    The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin

    Desmond Earley, conductor

    3:38
  • 1:05 PM

    String Quartet: Adagio

    Emilie Mayer

    String Quartets

    Erato Quartet

    7:43
  • 1:00 PM

    Chorale

    Errollyn Wallen

    Timelapse

    Orchestra of the Swan

    5:00
  • 12:53 PM

    10,000 Black Men Named George: The Multiple Burdens of Injustice

    Sadie Harrison

    Something So Transporting Bright

    Kreutzer Quartet

    5:27
  • 12:47 PM

    My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee

    Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    5:29
  • 12:42 PM

    Overture

    Grazyna Bacewicz

    Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    5:39
  • 12:34 PM

    Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

    Nadia Boulanger

    Elles

    Marina Thibeault, viola

    7:06
  • 12:21 PM

    Black Iris

    Reena Esmail

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    13:04
  • 12:05 PM

    Altar de cuerda: Canto abierto

    Gabriela Ortiz

    Gabriela Ortiz: Revolucion diamantina

    Los Angeles Phiharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    Maria Duenas, violin

    14:16
  • 12:02 PM

    Aire de Vidalita

    Maria Luisa Anido

    Legado

    Berta Rojas, guitar

    2:19
  • 11:49 AM

    Che si puo fare?

    Barbara Strozzi

    Venice

    Basel Chamber Orchestra

    Anastasia Kobekina, cello

    3:24
  • 11:43 AM

    Hana Wa Saku (Flowers Will Bloom)

    Yoko Kanno

    Kaleidoscoep: Contemporary Piano Music by Female Composers From Around the World

    Isabel Dobarro, piano

    5:13
  • 11:40 AM

    Everything Passes, Everything is Connected

    Samantha Fernando

    Carols After A Plague

    The Crossing

    Donald Nally, conductor

    3:29
  • 11:33 AM

    Short Piece for Orchestra

    Julia Perry

    MUSIC OF TALMA, FINE, PERRY, DANIELS & HOWE

    Imperial Philharmonic of Tokyo

    William Strickland, conductor

    7:12
  • 11:30 AM

    We Shall Walk Through the Valley

    Undine Smith Moore

    Dance Like the Wind: Music of Today's Black Composers

    VocalEssence

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    2:53
  • 11:22 AM

    Erinnerung ans Schicksal

    Maria-Theresia von Paradis

    Who's Afraid Of...?

    Boulanger Trio

    2:52
  • 11:17 AM

    And So

    Caroline Shaw/So Percussion

    Rectangles and Circumstance

    So Percussion

    Caroline Shaw, vocals

    5:26
  • 11:04 AM

    Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann

    Clara Schumann

    The Future is Female, Volume 2: The Dance

    Sarah Cahill, piano

    12:23
  • 11:02 AM

    Bei dir ist es traut (With You it is Pleasant)

    Alma Schindler-Mahler

    Alma Mahler: Complete Songs

    Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jorma Panula, conductor

    Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano

    1:39
  • 10:41 AM

    Viennese Waltzes

    Emma Kodaly

    Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers

    Hiroko Ishimoto, piano

    9:58
  • 10:31 AM

    Symphony No. 3: Adagio

    Louise Farrenc

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    National Orchestra of Metz Grand Est

    David Reiland, conductor

    10:00
  • 10:25 AM

    Vespers for Violin

    Missy Mazzoli

    Streya

    Olivia de Prato, violin

    5:10
  • 10:12 AM

    Umoja: Anthem of Unity

    Valerie Coleman

    ETHIOPIA'S SHADOW IN AMERICA

    New York Youth Symphony

    Michael Repper, conductor

    13:25
  • 10:08 AM

    When We Sing

    Rosephanye Powell

    Alone Together

    Cantus

    3:20
  • 10:01 AM

    Three Dream Portraits

    Margaret Bonds

    The Ballad of the Brown King and Selected Songs

    Malcolm J. Merriweather, baritone

    6:58
  • 9:54 AM

    Ambarvalia

    Ruth Gipps

    Gipps: Orchestral Works, Volume 3

    BBC Philharmonic

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    7:06
  • 9:51 AM

    Three Piano Pieces: Dance

    Zara Levina

    Zara Levina: Chamber Music

    Maria Lettberg, piano

    2:46
  • 9:36 AM

    Etruscan Concerto

    Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Lou Harrison: Seven Pastorales

    Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

    Keith Jarrett, piano

    14:02
  • 9:34 AM

    We Bloomed in Spring

    Edie Hill

    Edie Hill: Clay Jug

    The Crossing

    Donald Nally, conductor

    2:45
  • 9:25 AM

    Fantaisie

    Helene Fleury-Roy

    Pieces de Concours

    Jutta Puchhammer-Sedillot, viola

    8:56
  • 9:20 AM

    Ophelie

    Mel Bonis

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Leo Hussain, conductor

    4:41
  • 9:01 AM

    Symphony: Water Music

    Libby Larsen

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    18:30
  • 8:53 AM

    Bukoolika (Bucolic)

    Ester Magi

    Ester Magi: Orchestral Music

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Arvo Volmer, conductor

    8:08
  • 8:48 AM

    Running Up that Hill

    Kate Bush

    Who's Afraid Of...?

    Boulanger Trio

    5:14
  • 8:40 AM

    Threnody

    Nicola LeFanu

    Nicola LeFanu: The Crimson Bird

    RTE National Symphony Orchestra

    Gavin Maloney, conductor

    6:45
  • 8:33 AM

    Las Desaparecidas

    Angelica Negron

    Forward Music Project, Vol. 1

    Amanda Gookin, cello

    7:12
  • 8:20 AM

    Sin Fronteras

    Clarice Assad

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    13:29
  • 8:15 AM

    American DREAMers: #unitedwedream

    Melissa Dunphy

    America Will Be

    Tonality

    Alexander Lloyd Blake, conductor

    3:33
  • 8:12 AM

    Ellis Island

    Meredith Monk

    Meredith Monk: Piano Songs

    Ursula Oppens, piano

    3:01
  • 8:02 AM

    The Magic Harp

    Ina Boyle

    Dan Godfrey Encores

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    9:15
  • 7:58 AM

    The Sweet Spring

    Roxanna Panufnik

    This Day: Celebrating a Century of British Women's Right to Vote

    Blossom Street

    Hilary Campbell, conductor

    4:32
  • 7:51 AM

    Berceuse and Tarantelle

    Laura Netzel

    Breaking Waves: Music by Swedish Women Composers

    Paula Gudmundson, flute

    6:46
  • 7:46 AM

    Alma Redemptoris

    Cecilia McDowall

    Stella: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections Volume 3: Victoria

    ORA

    Suzi Digby, conductor

    5:04
  • 7:37 AM

    The Light Is the Same

    Reena Esmail

    Bruits

    Imani Winds

    8:50
  • 7:30 AM

    Favourite Things (More Light)

    Errollyn Wallen

    Errollyn

    Errollyn Wallen, piano

    6:10
  • 7:28 AM

    Rotten Row

    Angela Morley

    In London Town: A Musical Tour of the Historic Sights of London

    Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

    Iain Sutherland, conductor

    2:24
  • 7:24 AM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Switched-On Bach

    Wendy Carlos, moog synthesizer

    3:36
  • 7:17 AM

    Divertimento for Strings

    Grazyna Bacewicz

    Bacewicz: Music for String Orchestra

    Primuz Chamber Orchestra

    Lukasz Blaszczyk, conductor

    6:54
  • 7:08 AM

    Piano Sonata

    Helene de Montgeroult

    Helene de Montgeroult

    Nicolas Horvath, piano

    9:45
  • 6:50 AM

    De Profundis

    Raminta Serksnyte

    Serksnyte: Midsummer Songs; DE profundis; Songs of Sunset and Dawn

    Kremerata Baltica

    Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor

    13:19
  • 6:43 AM

    Gone to Earth

    Amanda Feery

    Centennial - Amplifying the Connections Between History, Music, and Social issues

    Jose Antonio Zayas Caban, soprano saxophone

    7:14
  • 6:36 AM

    Soir, Matin

    Mel Bonis

    Ravel, Faure, and Bonis: Trios avec piano

    Trio George Sand

    7:11
  • 6:26 AM

    Aghavni (Doves)

    Mary Kouyoumdjian

    Shift

    Nicholas Phillips, piano

    8:53
  • 6:20 AM

    Peace Dancer

    Jodie Blackshaw

    Firsts

    University of Texas at El Paso Wind Symphony

    Bradley Genevro, conductor

    5:54
  • 6:07 AM

    Path at Sunrise, Masses of Flowers

    Margaret Brouwer

    Brouwer: Rhapsodies

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    8:01
  • 6:04 AM

    Eight Descriptive Pieces: Birds at Dawn

    Fannie Charles Dillon

    The Future is Female: Vol. 1 In Nature

    Sarah Cahill, piano

    2:57
  • 5:56 AM

    Symphony No. 6: Scherzo

    Emilie Mayer

    Emilie Mayer: Music From The Shadows - Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3

    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra

    Marc Niemann, conductor

    7:16
  • 5:50 AM

    Sorrow Song and Jubilee

    Libby Larsen

    Blurred Boundaries

    Apollo Chamber Players

    6:14
  • 5:40 AM

    The Unquestioned Answer

    Laurie Spiegel

    Dreamcatcher

    James McVinnie, organ

    9:18
  • 5:36 AM

    Love Abounds in Everything

    Clarice Jensen

    Lys

    American Contemporary Music Ensemble

    Mari Samuelsen, violin

    4:22
  • 5:34 AM

    Karitas habundat (Charity abounds in all things)

    Hildegard von Bingen

    Seven Words from the Cross

    Skylark Vocal Ensemble

    Clare McNamara, alto

    1:51
  • 5:25 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 2

    Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

    Guerre: The Violin Sonatas of 1707

    Dana Maiben, violin

    8:05
  • 5:23 AM

    Scherzo

    Cecile Chaminade

    Donna voce

    Anna Shelest, piano

    2:46
  • 5:18 AM

    Dixit Dominus

    Marianne Martines

    Marianne Martines: PSALMS 110 & 151

    Salzburg Hofmusik

    Wolfgang Brunner, conductor

    4:12
  • 5:12 AM

    Variations on Lift Every Voice and Sing

    Lettie B. Alston

    New Day Begun

    Lara Downes, piano

    6:10
  • 5:09 AM

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    2:21
  • 5:06 AM

    March of the Women

    Ethel Smyth

    Ethel Smyth: Mass In D

    Plymouth Music Festival Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano

    3:22
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