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Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades.Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria’s New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna’s cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime. Music Featured: String Quintet in A minor, Op 7 (excerpt) Piano Sonata, Op 8 (Allegro enérgico) Herbst, Op 20 No 3 (Vier Lieder) Wie eine Vollmondnacht, Op 20 No 4 (Vier Lieder) Zwei dreistimmige Frauenchöre, Op 10 Piano Sonata, Opus 8 (excerpt) Cello Sonata, Op 17 (Moderato) String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (Moderato) Intermezzo in D, Op 3 No 4 (Fünf Klavierstücke) Vier Lieder, Op 2 Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (Moderato serioso) UK Broadcast Premiere String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (excerpt) Die stille Stadt, Op 4 No 1 Heroic Overture, Op 21 (excerpt) Alle die wachsenden Schatten, Op 9 No 3 (Drei Chöre) Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (excerpt) UK Broadcast Premiere Heroic Overture, Op 21 String Quintet in A minor, Op 7 (Adagio con expressione) Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 31 (excerpt) Zwei Lieder, Op 11 Cello Sonata, Op 17 (excerpt) Epilog zur einer Tragodie ’Brand‘ – symphonic fantasy, Op 25 Intermezzo in D minor, Op 3 No 3 (Fünf Klavierstücke) Impromptu in D minor, Op 3 No 5 (Fünf Klavierstücke) In Memoriam, Op 28 No 5 (Herbstlieder) Novelette in A flat, Op 3 No 2 (Fünf Klavierstücke) Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (Allegretto amabile) UK Broadcast Premiere Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 31 (Adagio sostenuto) Drei Gesange, Op 33 String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (Allegro con spirito) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke WhitlockFor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57jAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

The singer, and composer Barbara Strozzi neither held any position at church or court, nor had a consistant patron, and yet she published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. Donald Macleod is joined by Professor Laurie Stras to explore the life of this extraordinary musician, and the world of 17th Century Venice in which she lived and worked. This was a world in which, despite the acknowledged successes of female artists in literature and music, being a successful composer seems to have aroused suspicion, and brought accusations of impropriety.Music Featured:Mi fa rider la speranze, Op.7’10 Che si puo fare, Op 8’6 Sonetto Proemio dell'Opera, Op 1’1 Godere in gioventù, Op. 1’12 L'Usignuolo, Op.1’5 Il contrasto di cinque sensi, Op. 1’14 Parla alli suoi pensieri, Op.6’5 L’Amante segreto, Op. 2’16 Sospira respira, Op.6’17 Godere e tacere, Op.1’9 Cuore che reprime alla lingua di manifestare il nome della sua cara, Op.3’1 La sol fa, mi, re, do, Op.2’25 Cor donato, cor rubato, Op. 3’10 Sino alla morte, Op.7’1 E pazzo il mio core, Op.8’9 Fin che tù spiri, spera, Op.7’3 Cristiana Presutti, soprano Ensemble Poiesis La riamata da chi amava, Op.2’18 Silentio nocivo, Op. 1’6 Donne Belle, Op.8’12 Se volete così me ne contento, Op. 6’18 Lagrime Mie, Lamento, Op. 7’4 L'Eraclito amoroso, Op. 2’14 Amante loquace, Op. 6’16 Il Lamento - S’ul rodano severo, Op.3’3 Begl’occhi, Op.2’2 Mater Anna, op.5’1 O Maria, Op.5’7 Tradimento, Op.7’9 Sete pur fastidioso, Op. 7’12 Conclusione dell’opera, Op.1’25 Parasti in dulcedine, Op.5’8 L’Astratto, op.8’4 Salve Regina, Op.5 Gite, o giorni dolenti, Op.2’21 L’amante modesto, Op.1’13Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam PhillipsFor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Barbara Strozzi (1619 – 1677) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57jAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

“So great a musician are you.....that if the Fates carried you off.....music would be mute.” So wrote a contemporary of Thomas Tallis, showing us just how highly this composer was regarded in his own time. Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod traces the career of Tallis, unquestionably one of England's greatest ever composers. We follow him from the early faint mentions of the composer in Dover Priory, to his 40-plus years serving four successive monarchs as part of the Chapel Royal, and through the upheaval of one of the most tumultuous periods in all of English history.O Sacrum Convivium Lamentations of Jeremiah I & II Euge celi porta Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix Ave, rosa sine spinis When shall my sorrowful sighing slack Sequence: Celeste Organum - Agnus Dei Magnificat for 4 voices Salve Intemerata Mass for four Voices Magnificat for 5 voices 5 part Litany Sancte Deus Hodie nobis caelorum Videte Miraculum for Vespers on Purification of Virgin Mary Remember not, O Lord God Te Deum for Meanes If Ye Love Me A New Commandment Gaude Gloriosa In nominee II Mass: Puer natus est nobis – Agnus Dei Archbishop Parker’s Psalter: O Come in One to Praise the Lord; E’en like the Hunted Hind; Expend, O Lord, my Plaint; Why Brag’st in Malice High ; God Grant with Grace Psalm 2, the third of 9 tunes for Archbishop Parker’s psalter “Why Fum’th In Fight” Suscipe quaeso domine My Soul Cleaveth to the Dust O Nata Lux (arr. Christian Forshaw) Spem in alium Cantiones Sacrae - Salvator Mundi I; Derelinquit impius; Semone blando angelus; In ieiunio Miserere nostriPresented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam PhillipsFor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Thomas Tallis (1505 – 1585) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57jAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z