To commemorate International Women’s Day BBC Radio 3 will certainly transmit the online best of Maddalena Casulana’s 1583 First Book of five-voice madrigals.

In among one of the most crucial explorations of current years the shed Alto component of Maddalena Casulana’s First Book of five-voice madrigals, which vanished after World War II from a songs collection in Poland, was lately discovered by Laurie Stras, Professor of Music at the Universities of Southampton and also Huddersfield, at the Russian State Library in Moscow.

Maddalena Casulana was an Italian author, lutenist and also vocalist of the late Renaissance. She was the very first women author to have an entire publication of her songs published and also released in the background of western songs.

BBC Radio 3 will certainly transmit the online best of the madrigals

Maddalena Casulana’s recently discovered madrigals will certainly be done completely for the very first time in 400 years by singing set Fieri Consort at King’s Place in London, and also program live for the very first time in BBC Radio 3’s program Casulana and also Strozzi: The Excellence of Women on Tuesday 8 March at 8pm. All the programs as component of BBC Radio 3’s International Women’s Day party will certainly additionally be readily available to pay attention to on BBC Sounds.

Living each time in which females’s imagination was usually stifled, Maddalena Casulana (1544-1590) and also her compatriot Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) were just also conscious their songs would certainly be evaluated substandard to males’s. To note International Women’s Day this performance commemorates both authors by providing Casulana’s madrigals as a fresh viewpoint on Strozzi’s jobs.

In the devotion of her 1566 very first collection of madrigals Maddalena Casulana kept in mind:
” these very first fruits of mine, flawed as they are … reveal the globe the useless mistake of males that think themselves customers of the high presents of intelligence, which according to them can not additionally be kept in similarly by females …”

Part of BBC Radio 3’s International Women’s Day events

The best of Maddalena Casulana’s five-voice madrigals belongs to BBC Radio 3’s International Women’s Day events, concentrating on women authors and also entertainers previous and also existing, and also including speech programs discovering and also questioning problems from a women viewpoint. As in previous years all the songs program on BBC Radio 3 on International Women’s Day will certainly be by women authors, with all the online songs programs generated by women manufacturers.

Alan Davey, BBC Radio 3 Controller, stated, “BBC Radio 3 programs songs by women authors all year-round. We satisfaction ourselves with sustaining study on unjustly forgotten numbers and also providing neglected items on our airwaves, along with premiering brand-new songs, as component of our normal timetables. International Women’s Day is a treasured possibility yearly for us to place a limelight on the vital imaginative payment females throughout all centuries and also categories have actually provided to songs. It provides the opportunity to thrill our target markets with unidentified treasures, brand-new items, and also acquainted collection, coupled with conversations concentrating on arts, background, way of living– all with a women viewpoint. We wish that audiences can appreciate today of unique shows– there is something for everybody!”

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