Performing Arts Library
College of St. Catherine

Women Composers: Sound Recordings

Last updated: 21 January 2000

This section lists recordings containing works by multiple women composers. You can also search CLICnet for sound recordings of works by individual composers (see Searching CLICnet for more scores & recordings.)

Chamber Music by Women Composers. Hackensack, NJ: Vox Box, 1991.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M177 .A1 C53 1991

Works by Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Germaine Tailleferre, Lili Boulanger, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Teresa Carreño, and Cécile Chaminade performed by the Macalester Trio.

Eberle, Katherine. From a Woman's Perspective: Art Songs by Women Composers. Vienna, Austria: Vienna Modern Masters, 1993.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M1619 .E34 F76 1993

Performed by Katherine Eberle, mezzo-soprano ; Robin Guy, piano ; and Kristin Pederson Thelander, horn.

Harbach, Barbara. 18th Century Women Composers, Vol. 1. Jaffrey, NH: Gasparo, 1995.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M21 .H36 E35 v.1 1995

 

Harbach, Barbara. 18th Century Harpsichord Music by Women Composers, Vol. II. Nashville, TN: Gasparo, 1990.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M21 .H36 E35 v.2 1990

 

Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Compiled by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 3 vols.
Performing Arts Library Audio Cassette M1 .H57 1991
Accompanies score with the same title.

 

Martin, Carolann. Journeys: Orchestral Works by American Women. New York: Leonarda, 1987.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M1000 .M37 J68 1987

 

Piano Works by Women Composers. New York: Turnabout, 1979.
Performing Arts Library Record M20 .P45 M3

Performed by Rosario Marciano.

 

Premiere: Recording Performances of Keyboard Works by Women. Hollywood, CA: Avant Records, 1974.
Performing Arts Library Record M21 .P74 F4

Works by Talma, La Guerre, Szymanowska, Boulanger, and Bacewicz performed by Nancy Fierro, CSJ, piano.

Rakich, Christa. Deferred Voices: Organ Music By Women. Wilmington, MA: AFKA Records, 1993.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M7 .R35 D44 1993

Works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach, Lili Wieruszowski, Edith Borroff, Jeanne Demessieux, and Emma Lou Diemer performed by Christa Rakich, organ.

Rolfe Johnson, Anthony. In Praise of Woman: 150 Years of English Women Composers. London: Hyperion, 1996.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M1619 .R65 I62 1994

 

Romantic Women Composers: Judith Alstadter Plays Music by Romantic Women Composers. Ventura, CA: Educo, n.d.
Performing Arts Library Record M20 .R6 A5

Walker, Gregory. Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women. New York: Leonarda, 1995.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M217 .W24 K24 1995

Works performed by Gregory Walker, violin and Helen Walker-Hill, piano.

Women of Note. Port Washington, NY: Koch International Classics, 1997.
Performing Arts Library Compact Disc M5 .W66 1997

Music by Beach, Boulanger, Clarke, Gubaidulina, Larsen, Mendelssohn, Monk, Musgrave, Ran, and Zwilich.