Ethel Smyth
Born: 22nd April 1858, Sidcup, UK
Died: 8th May 1944, Woking, UK
Nationality: English
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.
Smyth tended to be marginalised as a "woman composer", as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male peers. She was the first female composer granted a damehood.
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Ethel Smyth
22nd May 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the late Romantic composer, known for her groundbreaking operas, her solo songs, and her fearless involvement in the suffragette movement.
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John Andrews on Ethel Smyth's Der Wald
11th Sep 2023
The conductor discusses the first-ever recording of Smyth's second opera - a deliciously dark fairy-tale in one act, which was premiered in Berlin in 1902 and subsequently transferred to the Metropolitan Opera.
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All Works: Smyth
- Aus der Jugendzeit!! (2)
- Canons (2) (1)
- Cello Sonata in C minor (3)
- Dances (4) (1)
- Der Wald (2)
- Double Concerto in A for violin, horn & piano (1)
- Fête galante (1)
- Four Songs for mezzo & chamber ensemble (3)
- Fuge in G minor (1)
- Invention in D major (1)
- Klavierstück in E major (1)
- Komm, süsser Tod (2)
- Lieder und Balladen, Op. 3 (3)
- Lieder, Op. 4 (3)
- Mass in D for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ (3)
- Moods of the Sea (3) (4)
- Nocturne (Kanon in Gegenbewegung) (2)
- Piano Piece in E major (1)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major (1)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor: I. Andante (1)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor (1)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major (2)
- Piano Suite in E major (1)
- Piano Trio in D minor (1)
- Prelude and Fugue in C major (1)
- Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major (1)
- Serenade in D (2)
- Short Chorale Preludes, No. 4: Erschienen ist der herrlich’ Tag (1)
- Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. 5 (3)
- Sonata for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 7 (10)
- Soul's Joy, Now I Am Gone (1)
- String Quartet in C minor (1)
- String Quartet in E minor, Op. 1 (7)
- String Quintet in E major, Op. 1 (2)
- String Trio in D, Op. 6 (1)
- Suite for Strings, Op. 1a (2)
- The Boatswain's Mate (1)
- The Boatswain's Mate: Overture (2)
- The March Of The Women (1)
- The Prison (1)
- The Wreckers (1)
- The Wreckers - Overture (4)
- Three Songs for mezzo & piano (4)
- Trio for Violin, Horn and Pianoforte (1)
- Two Interlinked French Melodies (2)
- Variations on an Original Theme (of an Exceedingly Dismal Nature) in D flat major (2)
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