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A Lady and her Reputation: with modern recordings of Smyth's major works in the catalogue, we now need to put her work into a proper context
[…] No. 3, the Piano Concerto and the opera remained mere sketches, his Cello Concerto of 1919 a swan song. Smyth, on the other hand, seems to have dusted herself off and reinvented herself. Fête galante premiered in 1923, Entente Cordiale in 1926 and The Prison in 1931, there were performances of the Mass in the 1920s plus one in the Royal Albert Hall for her 75th birthday in 1934.As each new recording of her major works has been issued since Odaline de la Martinez conduct The Wreckers on disc in 1994, there has been the sense of certain critics re-legislating the past and justifying the composer's past and continuing neglect. Reading a broad cross section of the reviews of Glyndebourne's production of The Wreckers last year made fascinating, if depressing reading. Most of the major British reviews were by men of a certain age, and a worrying number spent far to much time going over why they'd dismissed Smyth in […]
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