BACKIn the week leading up to International Women’s Day the team at WildKat PR have been discussing some of the best moments, pieces, events and performances that have come from classical women. Here are 10 of our favourites – add yours to the list by tweeting us @WildKatPR!
Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor (Andante)
Marin Alsop’s speech at the Last Night of the Proms 2013
Nicola Benedetti inspires young musicians
Nicola Benedetti helps and inspires Scottish children to study music
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa founded her foundation in 2004 to help outstanding young musicians and singers to develop their international careers
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel – Lied: Larghetto from Song Without Words
Madeleine Dring’s Business Girls from ‘Five Betjeman Songs’
In 2014 Judith Weir was appointed as the first female master of the Queen’s music
She succeeded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in the role that is said to be the musical equivalent of the poet laureate
Jacqueline du Pre set the bar for performances of Elgar’s Cello Concerto
Galina Ustvolskaya was composing during the Soviet Union
The Russian composer’s brutally uncompromising work has an elementality that’s both horrifying and thrilling
The founder of ENO Lilian Baylis
Lilian Baylis established the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company in 1931 which later became the English National Opera
