Composer: Eleanor Alberga, Sally Beamish, Chen Yi, Ethel Smyth, Errollyn Wallen
Performer: Hanni Liang
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34326
Release: 2024
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Smyth: Sonata No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
01. I. Lento assai – Allegro assai – Allegro moderato
02. II. Andante
03. III. Finale: Presto con brio
04. Wallen: I Wouldn’t Normally Say
Smyth: Variations in D-Flat Major on an Original Theme (of an Exceeding Dismal Nature)
05. I. Thema (Rühig)
06. II. Variation I (Allegro)
07. III. Variation II (Quasi maestoso)
08. IV. Variation III (Lento)
09. V. Variation IV (Allegro à la Phyllis)
10. VI. Variation V (Andante con moto)
11. VII. Variation VI (Adagio)
12. VIII. Variation VII (Presto: wild und stürmisch
13. IX. Variation VIII & Finale (Allegro con brio)
14. Beamish: Night Dances
Yi: Variations on ‘Awariguli’
15. I. Theme (Andante)
16. II. Variation I (Allegro)
17. III. Variation II (Allegro)
18. IV. Variation III (Con moto vivace)
19. V. Variation IV (Sostenuto)
20. VI. Variation V (Alla romance)
21. VII. Variation VI (Moderato)
22. VIII. Variation VII (Alla danza)
23. IX. Variation VIII (Allegro moderato)
24. X. Variation IX (Andante)
25. XI. Coda X (Vivace)
26. Alberga: Cwicseolfor
A pioneer of new concert formats, using music to communicate and bring people together, Hanni Liang was long sceptical about the traditional role of recording in progressing an artist’s career. It was her discovery of Ethel Smyth – both as a composer and as a person and a woman, fighting without compromise – that sparked the inspiration that led to Voices.
In this album she has created a programme that both champions women’s voices that, without the determination of Smyth and others like her, might otherwise have been silent, and allows her to raise her own voice, reflecting both her European birth and upbringing and her Chinese roots.