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Marcel Worms & Ursula Schoch release CD ‘Female Composers from the Netherlands’ https://theaderks.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/marcel-worms-ursula-schoch-release-cd-female-composers-from-the-netherlands/ #HenriëtteBosmans, #MajoieHajary, #MarcelWanders, #RosyWertheim, #UrsulaSchoch

Uraufführung: Staatsorchester Hannover spielt Rosy Wertheim

AUDIO: Uraufführung von Rosy Wertheim an Staatsoper Hannover (4 Min) Stand: 25.10.2025 15:16 Uhr An der Staatsoper Hannover…
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Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gm6mbOLsxPg&si=YVyVNSXFXg6-eqRn
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Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major
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Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major
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Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major
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Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major
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Marcel Worms & Ursula Schoch release CD ‘Female Composers from the Netherlands’

‘Things may change’ was the motto of the 17th-century Dutch poet Brederode. It roughly means that everything is fluid, so that even a common view can turn into its opposite. The latter feeling has crept up on me in recent years: female composers were ignored for centuries, but are these days suddenly basking in overwhelming attention.

What particularly bothers me is that in the process their womanhood is often emphasised. When I started working as a music publicist and radio programmer in the mid-1990s, I cherished the idea that women’s creative work would gradually be included in the canon if only I would draw attention to it without further ado. This turned out to be an illusion and, together with other feminist musicologists and musicians, I felt like a lone voice in the wilderness.

Now I realize that actually I always got it wrong: instead of regarding women as composers in their own right, I should have emphasised their gender, as is done so lavishly these days. Labelling seemingly stimulates sales. At the same time, this underlines precisely how unequal the m/f distribution still is even in the 21st century: I have never yet seen a release labelled ‘Male composers…’.

‘Instead of regarding women as composers in their own right, I should have emphasised their gender…’

Into this trend fits the latest CD by pianist Marcel Worms and violinist Ursula Schoch, Female Composers from the Netherlands. I certainly don’t want to sell Worms and Schoch short, as they too have often presented works by women in a non-obtrusive way. Among others, they dedicated portrait CDs to Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman and Agnes Jama. And for his solo series New Blues for Piano, Worms commissioned about as many women as men. – Apparently, the pair now felt the urge to hitch a ride on the trend after all.

Fortunately, there is much to enjoy on this album, which was recorded in 2023. Only Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman’s Sonata for violin and piano (1923) is taken from her portrait CD. She was the wife of the famous Dutch novelist Ferdinand Bordewijk. Her four-movement sonata has a joyous atmosphere, with jaunty violin lines set against frisky piano runs that at times recall Debussy’s impressionism.

Rosy Wertheim’s Sonata for violin and piano (1930) is also distinctly lively, with firm chords from the piano and passionate trills from the violin. In contrast to this is the pensive atmosphere of the first two movements of Agnes Jama’s Suite for violin and piano (1952). Intense melancholic violin lines and hushed piano runs evoke a vast landscape one would love to lose oneself in. In the third and final movement, a whirlwind strikes up, full of punchy rhythms and playful ornamentation.

In her Sonata for violin and piano (1918), Henriëtte Bosmans beautifully juxtaposes the instruments in alternating solo passages through all registers. Sudden silences generate dramatic tension, after which the instruments blend harmoniously again. With its broadly spun gestures and shifting atmospheres, this sonata has the allure of orchestral music.

The album also features two short pieces by Majoie Hajary (1921-2017), who was born in Surinam and graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatoire during the Second World War. In her Serenade, she intertwines a lyrical violin part with a Spanish-tinged rhythm in the piano. In the Tango, the piano plays this Argentinian dance rhythm against passionate lines from the violinist.

The performances are excellent, though the recording sounds a bit crude, perhaps because the microphones are placed somewat too close to the instruments. But the varied music, coupled with the fiery and compelling interpretations by Worms and Schoch make Female Composers from the Netherlands very worthwhile nonetheless.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1WwmezVPE70F0fq4wvLAVQ

"La Flûte Femme" by Duo Flöte an Tasten, Ute-Gabriela Schneppat, Karin Heidrich https://songwhip.com/duofloteantasten/la-flute-femme
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"La Flûte Femme" by Duo Flöte an Tasten, Ute-Gabriela Schneppat, Karin Heidrich https://songwhip.com/duofloteantasten/la-flute-femme
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"La Flûte Femme" by Duo Flöte an Tasten, Ute-Gabriela Schneppat, Karin Heidrich https://songwhip.com/duofloteantasten/la-flute-femme
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#WomenComposers
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#TinaTernes
#ClémenceDeGranval
#MelBonis
#LauraNetzel
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#RuthZechlin
#RuthSchonthal

"La Flûte Femme" by Duo Flöte an Tasten, Ute-Gabriela Schneppat, Karin Heidrich https://songwhip.com/duofloteantasten/la-flute-femme
@classicalmusic
#WomenComposers
#FluteWorks
#DuoFlöteAnTasten
#TinaTernes
#ClémenceDeGranval
#MelBonis
#LauraNetzel
#RosyWertheim
#RuthZechlin
#RuthSchonthal

"La Flûte Femme" by Duo Flöte an Tasten, Ute-Gabriela Schneppat, Karin Heidrich https://songwhip.com/duofloteantasten/la-flute-femme
@classicalmusic
#WomenComposers
#FluteWorks
#DuoFlöteAnTasten
#TinaTernes
#ClémenceDeGranval
#MelBonis
#LauraNetzel
#RosyWertheim
#RuthZechlin
#RuthSchonthal

"Rosy Wertheim - Sonatina for cello and piano" on YouTube https://youtu.be/sCe_wauEde0

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"Rosy Wertheim - Sonatina for cello and piano" on YouTube https://youtu.be/sCe_wauEde0

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"Rosy Wertheim - Sonatina for cello and piano" on YouTube https://youtu.be/sCe_wauEde0

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"Rosy Wertheim - Sonatina for cello and piano" on YouTube https://youtu.be/sCe_wauEde0

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"Rosy Wertheim - Sonatina for cello and piano" on YouTube https://youtu.be/sCe_wauEde0

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#SilencedMusic
#RosyWertheim

"Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Gm6mbOLsxPg

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#ClassicalMusic
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"Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Gm6mbOLsxPg

@classicalmusic
@womencomposers @ethelsmyth
@sarahfritzwritr
@archivfraumusik
#ClassicalMusic
#ViolinSonata
#DutchComposers
#WomenComposers
#RosyWertheim (1888-1949)

"Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Gm6mbOLsxPg

@classicalmusic
@womencomposers @ethelsmyth
@sarahfritzwritr
@archivfraumusik
#ClassicalMusic
#ViolinSonata
#DutchComposers
#WomenComposers
#RosyWertheim (1888-1949)

"Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Gm6mbOLsxPg

@classicalmusic
@womencomposers @ethelsmyth
@sarahfritzwritr
@archivfraumusik
#ClassicalMusic
#ViolinSonata
#DutchComposers
#WomenComposers
#RosyWertheim (1888-1949)

"Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Gm6mbOLsxPg

@classicalmusic
@womencomposers @ethelsmyth
@sarahfritzwritr
@archivfraumusik
#ClassicalMusic
#ViolinSonata
#DutchComposers
#WomenComposers
#RosyWertheim (1888-1949)

New website catalogues persecuted Dutch composers

On Wednesday, 20 June, Kajsa Ollongren launched the website Forbidden Music Regained. This catalogue of composers persecuted by the Nazi’s was initiated by the Amsterdam based Leo Smit Foundation. The city’s deputy mayor and alderman called the project ‘a giant leap for mankind’, quoting the astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Ollongren continued: “The website is important to Amsterdam because we can and may not forget what happened seventy years ago in our town. It is an honour to launch it.” – Striking detail: under Ollongren’s responsibility, the support of the Leo Smit Foundation was stopped.

Kajsa Ollongren launches website Forbidden Music Regained, Uilenburgersjoel 20-6-2017

Driving forces behind this large-scale project are the flutist Eleonore Pameijer, initiator and artistic leader of the Leo Smit Foundation, and manager Carine Alders. With stubborn perseverance they searched domestic and foreign archives for information about Dutch ‘degenerate’ composers. – Most of whom lost their lives in concentration camps during World War II. Pameijer and Alders assembled an archive of almost 2000 works and sound recordings.

The launch of the website was preceded by an international symposium. Pameijer: “Together with the chairman of our board, I went to Kajsa Ollongren. We said: “We have not come to complain about the Amsterdam council’s decision to stop supporting us, but to ask for a contribution to the symposium. – Moreover we want you to personally launch the website.”

Ollongren gave them € 3500 for the symposium and promised she would indeed launch the website. Pameijer: “She was bowled over when she learnt what we’ve achieved in the past two decades. In addition to a successful – subsidized – concert series, we published the book Vervolgde componisten in Nederland (Persecuted composers in the Netherlands) in 2015, without any form of public funding. We also organized an accompanying exhibition and concerts in the Amsterdam City Archive.

International symposium

In order to realize all this, the Foundation managed to collect € 80,000 in private gifts. And with support from music shop Broekmans & Van Poppel, the Dutch label Et’cetera released a ten-CD box of forbidden music. Pameijer: “This release got great reviews in the BBC and Gramophone magazines, but hardly drew attention in the Netherlands. There was one positive review in the music magazine Luister (Listen) and an offer in Klassieke Zaken (Classical Matters).

International bigwigs gave talks at the symposium. Pameijer: “We deliberately chose people who really relate to the subject. We did not want hotshots that are only invited for their name. I’m proud that we were able to engage Abram de Swaan. He is a great thinker and sociologist, who views everything from a much wider context than, for example, a musicologist or music journalist.

Frank van Vree, the new director of the NIOD (Dutch War Archive), was one of the speakers, too. Pameijer: “At first he was reluctant, because he doesn’t know much about music. But he has a vast knowledge of the period and its history, so it was very interesting to hear him speak about this.”

The flutist is perhaps even more thrilled by the presence of Albrecht Dümling from Musica Reanimata Berlin. “Over the years we have assembled a lot of international contacts. None of them had ever heard of the composers we’d unearthed, and they were invariably excited about their music. Dümling even invited us to present a complete program on Rosy Wertheim, that was broadcast live on the radio. It was a huge success.”

Wealth of information

Forbidden Music Regained offers a wealth of information about persecuted Dutch composers. The site is excellently searchable, offering biographies, sheet music, recordings, manuscripts and audio clips. For example, when you type ‘Rosy Wertheim’ in the search box, a list of 112 compositions pops up. The search can be refined further, e.g. on length, period of origin, orchestral or chamber music and the like. You can listen to Wertheim’s lively Sonatina for piano.

With this new website the Leo Smit Foundation has once more proved itself to be an indispensable knowledge center for persecuted composers.

Patricia Werner Leanse made a video documentary of the presentation.

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