Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned began as an idea in a workshop soprano and album producer Heather Fetrow attended called The Twenty-first Century Singer with Soprano Susan Mohini Kane in Los Angeles in the summer of 2016. The focus of the album grew further to encompass the goal of honoring female composers as a result of collaboration with renowned soprano Dr. Julianne Baird in Philadelphia in December of 2016. These events coincided with the Women's March in Washington DC the next month in January of 2017, lending a sense of timeliness to the project. The focus of an album of songs by women composers and other songs about women is unique, and brings to the fore the vast social change the world is undergoing with respect to women in our society, both in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Each piece addresses this separately from different points of view, in some cases from a previous age where the standards of women's expectations were very different than today. The World Premiere of "Still" by outstanding and innovative composer Paola Prestini, sung as a duet by sisters, brings the album's concept full circle with a song composed for and dedicated to this album. Also included are two piano pieces performed by Mila Henry, both by female composers, "Light" by Iranian composer Gity Razaz and "No. 2" from "Nine Short Piano Pieces" composed by Ms. Henry's mother-in-law. In all, this is an album for the age of the woman and about the age in which we live.

Tracklist:

Arie A Voce Sola, Op. 8: Che Si Può Fare
Manon: Gavotte. Obéissons Quand Leur Voix Appelle
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 3, Saint Ita's Vision
Still
Light
The Silver Aria (Gold Is A Fine Thing)
Sehnsucht
Green Finch And Linnet Bird
Banalités, Fp 107: No. 1, Chansons D'orkenise
9 Short Piano Pieces: No. 2, -
14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise
Joshua, Hwv 64: No. 63, O Had I Jubal's Lyre
3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37: No. 1, O Mistress Mine
3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37: No. 3, Fairy Lullaby
3 Cowboy Songs: No. 1, Bucking Bronco
Plaintes D'amour
I Could Have Danced All Night
Pilgrims' Hymn

UPC: 888295694124
Label: Affetto Records
Release Date: 7.6.18
Format: CD

Barber / Obert - Voices of Women / from Unkown to Renowned (CD)