Flaka Goranci / World Chamber Orch - La Femme: Journey of Female Composers Format:CD Michael Redgrave gives the performance

Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Terence Rattigan's unforgettable play

The songs brought together on this album represent a significant portion of his multifarious and multifaceted vocal oeuvre and show the whole great breadth of this composer whom his contemporaries described as an »extremely upright character« of the highest artistic seriousness but who occasionally - as his songs to texts by Robert Burns reveal - drew on his humorous vein far removed from any sort of cynicism

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wit & maturity

Like it's predecessors "Nabucco" and "I Lombardi"

Flaka Goranci / World Chamber Orch - La Femme: Journey of Female Composers Format:CD Michael Redgrave gives the performanceThrough much of history the language of women has been told through men, but La Femme turns this narrative upside down. All of these composers share an unrelenting will to be artistic, often in opposition to the societies in which they found themselves. From the very earliest medieval verses by Kassia via the blind virtuoso Maria von Paradis' famed Sicilienne and holocaust victim Ilse Weber's moving Wiegla, to powerful modern statements by the likes