Beach/ Little/ Schumann - Tasmin Little Plays Clara Schumann & Amy BeachRenowned violinist Tasmin Little returns to Chandos with a line up of three women composers whose lives share some features but also significant differences that illustrate the complex lives of female musicians. Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth and Amy Beach all came from families that encouraged their musical interests but balked, in varying degrees, at professional training and engagement. All three composers draw on the influence of Robert Schumann

Featuring duet recordings with Adele Astaire

I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

a Newsreel History of the Third Reich

106 and Liszt's Sonata in B Minor introduced me to new worlds of imagination

describing him as full of 'fire

Soft-spoken and humble

Her traditional Japanese sensibilities combined with her knowledge of European historical performance practices shape her unique vision

" (Conrad Steinmann)

and extensive dance

where he would teach composition for the rest of his life

His new album

The works chosen for this recording were written in the early nineteen-thirties