Honoring Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker today for International Women’s Day. She lives in Braintree, and in 2000 she was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vermont Arts Council. We’ll hear a selection of her choral works along with the Craftsbury Trio, and the Shaker Tunes for Brass Quintet.
Int’l Women’s Day With Gwyneth Walker
|
Playlist:
8:08 am
- Cherish The Ladies
- Composer: Traditional (Irish)
- Soloists: David Russell, guitar
- CD/Album: "Message of the Sea - Celtic Music for Guitar"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80492
8:11 am
- Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
- Composer: Gwyneth Walker
- Ensemble: Bel Canto Singers (NC)
- Conductor: David Pegg
- CD/Album: "A Rain of Diamonds"
- Record co./Cat #: Walker 1
8:17 am
- Craftsbury Trio
- Composer: Gwyneth Walker
- Ensemble: Trio Tulsa
- CD/Album: "A Vision of Hills: Chamber Music of Gwyneth Walker"
- Record co./Cat #: Centaur 2820
8:35 am
- Flute Concerto #1 in G , K 313
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
- Soloists: Irena Grafenauer, flute
- Conductor: Neville Marriner
- CD/Album: "Mozart: Concerto for Flute, K. 313 - Concerto for Flute"
- Record co./Cat #: Philips 422339
9:02 am
- Penelope: Prelude
- Composer: Gabriel Faure
- Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
- CD/Album: "Faure: Orchestral Works"
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9416
9:11 am
- Shaker Tunes
- Composer: Gwyneth Walker
- Ensemble: New Mexico Brass Quintet
- CD/Album: "Sets and Tunes"
- Record co./Cat #: Walker 2
- Note: (written 1993-4: Welcome! / I Will Bow and Be Simple / Followers of the Lamb / I Never Did Believe / Simple Gifts)
9:31 am
- I Will Be Earth & Love is a Rain of Diamonds
- Composer: Gwyneth Walker
- Ensemble: Bel Canto Singers
- Conductor: David Pegg
- CD/Album: "A Rain of Diamonds"
- Record co./Cat #: Walker 1
- Note: (setting of two poems by American poet May Swenson)
9:39 am
- The Three Elizabeths Suite
- Composer: Eric Coates
- Ensemble: East of England Orchestra
- Conductor: Malcolm Nabarro
- CD/Album: "Coates: The Three Elizabeths Suite"
- Record co./Cat #: ASV 2053