Raphaela Gromes: Femmes (2CD)

For years the star cellist and Opus Klassik laureate Raphaela Gromes has taken up the cause of women composers. Three of her albums, acclaimed by critics and listeners alike, have featured music by unknown women composers, and she maintains a long-term working relationship with the "Frau und Musik" Archive in Frankfurt.

So it is only natural that her new double album, FEMMES, should lend a voice to outstanding women from nine centuries of music history. No fewer than 23 woman composers found their way onto the double album, from Hildegard of Bingen to Clara Schumann all the way to Lera Auerbach and Billie Eilish, not to mention such famous operatic figures as Susanna from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro or Bizet's Carmen.

Works on CD
Antonia: Da me ti dividi (from Talestri)
Auerbach: Postludium
Bacewicz: Moravian Dance (Taniec mazowiecki) for Violin & Piano
Beach, A: Sketches (4) Op. 15 No. 3: Dreaming
Beau: Romanze, Op. 35
Hildegard: O virtus sapientae
Bosmans: Nuit Calme
Boulanger, L: Nocturne
Boulanger, N: Three Pieces for Organ
Capuis: Momenti (3) for Cello and String Orchestra
Chaminade: Nuit étoilée
Clarke, Rebecca: Epilogue for Cello & Piano
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Fantasia
Mozart: Deh vieni, non tardar (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Netzel: Danse Hongroise, Op. 51
Paradis: Sicilienne
Price, F: Adoration
Purcell: When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
Riem: Carmen Fantasie
Tailleferre: Berceuse
Viardot-Garcia: Bohémienne (from Six Morceux)
Viardot-Garcia: Romance (from Six Morceux)
Viardot-Garcia: Tarantelle (from Six Morceux)
White, Dolores: Las Tarantulas
Yagling: Suite for Cello and String Orchestra. II. Aria