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Louise Farrenc's Nonet

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a musical route towards the Nonet by the French composer Louise Farrenc.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a musical route towards the Nonet by the French composer Louise Farrenc. Farrenc was a widely respected composer in her lifetime but has been neglected since - the success of her Nonet allowed her to insist on being paid the same as the male professors at the Paris Conservatoire. We hear music by other French women composers, including Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre from the baroque period and Lili Boulanger from the twentieth century - and there are pieces by Farrenc's teachers, Johann Hummel and Anton Reicha. Other music from 1850 also features, including Wagner's Lohengrin and Stephen Foster's Camptown Races.

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Music Played

  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Trio No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 34: II. Tema con variazioni. Andante semplice

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • CPO.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Passacaille (Céphale et Procris)

    Ensemble: a nocte temporis. Conductor: Reinoud Van Mechelen.
    • Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 7.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude No 110 in A major

    Performer: Nicolas Stavy.
    • Hortus.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Boulanger: Faust Et Helene Etc. - Soloists/CBSC/BBC Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Louiguy

    La vie en rose

    Lyricist: Édith Piaf. Singer: Édith Piaf.
    • La vie en rose.
    • Replay Music.
    • 1.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Antoine Reicha

    Sinfonia Concertante for 2 cellos in E major: II Largo

    Performer: Bruno Delepelaire. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Orchestra: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken und Kaiserslautern. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Sony.

  • Franz Schubert

    Wandrers Nachtlied, D. 224 (Arr. Schmalcz)

    Lyricist: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
    • Schubert Revisited: Lieder Arranged for Baritone and Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: LSO Wind Ensemble.
    • MOZART Serenade No 10 for winds Gran Partita.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major, Op.31 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Spohr: Nonet and Octet: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata [F.A.E.] (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Bach Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin, Act III: Bridal Chorus. "Treulich geführt ziehet dahin"

    Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
    • Musiques pour un mariage.
    • Parlophone France.
    • 1.

  • Stephen Foster

    Camptown Races

    • Flaming Banjos (2021 Remaster from the Original Alshire Tapes).
    • Alshire.
    • 10.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major Op.38: 1st mov

    Ensemble: Minerva Chamber Ensemble.
    • CENTAUR.

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