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Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works album review – buoyant performances show off Howell’s quicksilver gifts

A Keats-inspired tone poem and an evocative still unstaged ballet are among the works finally getting their due in the BBC Concert Orchestra’s new recording

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024

Quartet review: did four women really change the world of classical music?

The subtitle of Quartet, historian Leah Broad’s book about four UK women composers, reads boldly: How Four Women Changed the Musical World.

The Conversation · Apr 11, 2023

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad review – off-key hymn to pioneers

This gushing celebration of composers who triumphed against the odds never quite communicates their place in history and leaves a hole at the centre where the music should be

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2023