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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

Quartet by Leah Broad review – Britain’s great female composers

A welcome celebration of four brilliant and colourful contributors to the 20th-century classical scene

The Guardian - UK

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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BBC Proms 2022: Prom 44 Ethel Smyth review - a triumphant return for her long-forgotten Mass

There’s been a recent resurgence of interest in the early 20th century composer and this was a triumphant return for her Mass

Evening Standard

Prom 44: BBCSO/Oramo review – Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D played with gravitas and grandeur

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus brought dynamic shading to Smyth’s at times forbidding work, and conjured sensuous beauty from Debussy’s Nocturnes

The Guardian - UK

The Boatswain’s Mate review – Ethel Smyth’s comic opera has atmosphere and sass

Grimeborn festival, Arcola theatre, LondonThis lively revival of Smyth’s one-act opera lets the comedy shine although not all of her witty libretto carries

The Guardian - UK

Prom 14: CBSO/Yamada review – Smyth beguiles and Rachmaninov ravishes

Ethel Smyth’s Concerto for Violin and Horn was deftly handled by the CBSO’s chief conductor designate Kazuki Yamada and soloists Elena Urioste and Ben Goldscheider

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The week in classical: The Wreckers; Kirill Gerstein

Ethel Smyth’s long-neglected maelstrom of an opera is worth a plunge; and pianist Kirill Gerstein is on peak form in Liszt

The Guardian - UK

The Wreckers at Glyndebourne review: Thrilling production of Ethel Smyth’s grossly neglected, pioneering work

Ethel Smyth’s under-appreciated work matches a drama of powerful moral principles with a score of remarkable individuality and inspiration

Evening Standard

The Wreckers review – Glyndebourne bring Smyth’s rarity to vivid and passionate life

Director Melly Still and conductor Robin Ticciati have done Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera proud, with dynamic and intense performances from an excellent cast and chorus.

The Guardian - UK

‘She’s badass’: how brick-throwing suffragette Ethel Smyth composed an opera to shake up Britain

She was bisexual, served a prison sentence, and was so outraged by cuts to her opera The Wreckers that she stormed the orchestra pit. Finally, this summer, it will be heard as its extraordinary composer intended

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms 2022 highlights: the best concerts to book at the London festival, from the Gaming Prom to Yuja Wang

Our critic picks the best of a bumper crop of Proms gigs to book now

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