I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American Song

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I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American SongSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Did I sing too loud? asked Emily Dickinson in 1861, in a poem set a century later by Aaron Copland. The expectations of silence often placed on women, historically and politically, and musics power to break through them, are the themes of this deeply personal recital by mezzo soprano Marta Fontanals Simmons and pianist Lana Bode. Their programme reflects and channels the voices of female writers and musicians:

Recorded on 10-12 June 2022 at St Barnabas

is a scintillating scherzo

Martin Kershaw and Mike Kearney sit alongside Robert McFall’s own arrangements of playful

and Telari sticks closely to Bach’s musical expression

Recording dates: 10-12 July 2006

a five-part “missa brevis” composed for Westminster Abbey

her attractively wiry tone and narrow vibrato the ideal medium for these settings of texts by female writers exploring anxiety

The instrumental writing is pungent and lush by turns

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"an absorbing programme including seven Advent Antiphons commissioned for the choir by the Revd Dr Simon Jones…The quality of the singing throughout is very high – this is an immensely accomplished and responsive mixed-voice choir…This disc is an impressive achievement in every way…Delphian’s recorded sound is beautiful

it asks more questions than it provides answers

says Alex Paxton

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