• Until the time when a composer’s gender can be ignored, let us welcome musicians who dig out works by women. Many, given social history, are written for piano. The new album by Antonio Oyarzabal, a London-based Spanish pianist, El Fin Del Silencio (The End of Silence) (Pixaudio) consists of 32 short pieces by 21 Latin American female composers. They date from the 19th century to our own time. I can claim proper familiarity with only one: the Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño (1855-1917), whose daughter Teresita is also featured.
