Raphaela Gromes – Femmes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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For many years, star cellist and OPUS KLASSIK award winner Raphaela Gromes has championed works by women composers. Three of her albums, which have been highly praised by the press and the public, have featured music by unknown female composers, and she has a long-standing collaboration with the “Frau und Musik” archive in Frankfurt.

So it is only logical that Raphaela Gromes gives a voice to outstanding women of music history from nine centuries with her new double album FEMMES. No less than 23 female composers are represented on the double album: from Hildegard von Bingen and Clara Schumann to Lera Auerbach and Billie Eilish, but also famous opera figures such as Mozart’s Susanna from “Le nozze di Figaro” or Bizet’s Carmen.

“What have we missed out on all these decades of wonderful music in a culture that to this day largely ignores compositions by women?” asks author Susanne Wosnitzka in the accompanying booklet text. Because in the program of German professional orchestras still less than 2% of the works come from women composers and the foundation “Donne-Frauen in der Musik” comes in a survey of 111 orchestras in 31 countries to a share of only 7, 7%. A strange picture, because for centuries there have been extremely talented women composers who have left behind a multitude of exciting works.

Tracklist:

1-01. Raphaela Gromes – O virtus sapientiae (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (02:45)
1-02. Raphaela Gromes – Talestri: Da me ti dividi (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (04:09)
1-03. Raphaela Gromes – Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I am Laid in Earth (Dido’s Lament, Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (03:13)
1-04. Raphaela Gromes – Le nozze di Figaro, K.492: Deh vieni non tardar (03:08)
1-05. Raphaela Gromes – 3 Romances, Op. 22: III. Leidenschaftlich schnell (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (03:40)
1-06. Raphaela Gromes – Six Morceaux, VWV 3003: II. Bohémienne (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (02:31)
1-07. Raphaela Gromes – Six Morceaux, VWV 3003: I. Romance (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (03:08)
1-08. Raphaela Gromes – Six Morceaux, VWV 3003: VI. Tarantelle (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (03:14)
1-09. Raphaela Gromes – Tre Momenti for Cello and String Orchestra: I. Speranze (05:30)
1-10. Raphaela Gromes – Tre Momenti for Cello and String Orchestra: II. Solitudine (05:47)
1-11. Raphaela Gromes – Tre Momenti for Cello and String Orchestra: III. Allegrezze (03:20)
1-12. Raphaela Gromes – Suite for Cello and String Orchestra. II. Aria (04:33)
1-13. Raphaela Gromes – Carmen Fantasie (After Georges Bizet: Carmen, GB 9/WD 31) (09:23)
1-14. Raphaela Gromes – Adoration (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem) (03:19)
2-01. Raphaela Gromes – Trois Pièces: I. Modéré (02:26)
2-02. Raphaela Gromes – Trois Pièces: II. Sans vitesse et à l’aise (01:23)
2-03. Raphaela Gromes – Trois Pièces: III. Vite et nerveusement rythmeé (02:33)
2-04. Raphaela Gromes – Deux Morceaux: I. Nocturne (Arr. for Cello & Piano by Julian Riem) (03:03)
2-05. Raphaela Gromes – Nuit étoilée (Arr. for Cello & Piano by Julian Riem) (02:17)
2-06. Raphaela Gromes – Impressions: II. Nuit calme (06:29)
2-07. Raphaela Gromes – Berceuse (Arr. for Cello & Piano by Julian Riem) (02:07)
2-08. Raphaela Gromes – Sicilienne (02:39)
2-09. Raphaela Gromes – Fantasia in G Minor (05:17)
2-10. Raphaela Gromes – Danse Hongroise, Op. 51 (02:56)
2-11. Raphaela Gromes – Romanze, Op. 35 (03:33)
2-12. Raphaela Gromes – Epilog (05:08)
2-13. Raphaela Gromes – Mazovian Dance (03:08)
2-14. Raphaela Gromes – 4 Sketches, Op. 15: III. Dreaming (04:56)
2-15. Raphaela Gromes – Las Tarantulas (03:28)
2-16. Raphaela Gromes – Postludium (03:05)
2-17. Raphaela Gromes – Chocolat Suite (04:07)
2-18. Raphaela Gromes – Miss Celie’s Blues (02:36)
2-19. Raphaela Gromes – No Time to Die (03:16)