Susan Tomes: Women Composers & The Piano Digital Album
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‘During my whole pianistic education, no teacher ever suggested I learn a piece by a female composer’. So writes pianist and author Susan Tomes, who is setting out to redress the historical neglect of women composers and pianists. Her new album, covering 250 years of piano history, gives a clear voice to at least seven virtually unknown names. Their extraordinary individual stories are revealed in Tomes’s thoughtful and deeply researched notes, allowing us to glimpse—often for the first time—their profound talents. Here Schumann, Mendelssohn and Chaminade feature alongside US master Amy Beach. But surprises are aplenty, including a Sonata in A major by Haydn’s earliest piano pupil Marianne Martínez, and a ‘Caprice’ by Polish virtuoso Maria Szymanowska, who courageously toured Europe and was appointed first-ever pianist to the Tsarina’s St Petersburg court. Tomes’s solo debut on Hyperion forms a counterpart to her book ‘Women and the Piano’ (Yale University Press, 2024), which documents the history, music and lives of female pianists across the years.
Tracklist:
Keyboard Sonata in A major
Marianne Martínez (1744-1812)
1. Allegro
2. Rondo: Adagio
3. Tempo di minuetto
Keyboard Sonata in E flat major
Marianna von Auenbrugger (1759-1782)
4. Moderato
5. Largo
6. Rondo: Allegro
7. Étude No 106 in B major
Hélène-Antoinette-Marie de Nervo de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
8. Caprice sur la romance de Joconde
Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831)
9. Abschied von Rom
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
10. Notturno (No 2 of Soirées musicales, Op 6)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
3 Romances Op 21
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
11. No 3 in G minor: Agitato
12. Romance Op 5
Sophie Menter (1846-1918)
13. Un bal en rêve Op 26
Teresa Carreño (1853-1917)
14. Melodie Op 4 No 1
Adele aus der Ohe (1861-1937)
15. Dreaming (No 3 of Sketches, Op 15)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
16. Automne (No 2 of Études de concert, Op 35)
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
17. Razor blades
Raie Da Costa (1905-1934)
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