When the Royal Academy of Music opened its doors to its first 20 students in 1823, there were equal numbers of boys and girls. In this first episode, Anna Picard traces the stories of some of the women of the Academy including Fanny Dickens, the elder sister of Charles Dickens. We also hear from the participants of a pioneering women-only conducting course and try to unravel what playing in a gendered way might mean. Along the way there is, as always, some glorious music from Academy students.
Presenter: Anna Picard
Producer: Natalie Steed
Contributors: Kathryn Adamson, Briony Cox-Williams, Phyllis Weliver, Jonathan Freeman- Attwood, Hannah Stell, Elizabeth Kenny, Lucy Powell, Sian Edwards, Peggy Wu, Beth Fitzpatrick
Voice of Frederick Corder: Michael Bertenshaw
Executive Producers, Royal Academy of Music: George Chambers, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Safi Schlicht
All the music in this episode is performed by Royal Academy of Music students:
Mozart Serenade in B flat, K 361, ‘Gran Partita’, performed by Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1 (second movement), performed by the Echea Quartet
Ferdinand David Trombone Concertino, Op 4, performed by Hannah Stell
Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, Op 68, performed by Hannah Stell
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries performed by Hannah Stell
Rebecca Clarke Ave Maria performed by Milette Gillow and Ivy Liang
Rebecca Clarke The Cloths of Heaven performed by Lauren Macleod and Stella Marie Lorenz
Schubert Symphony No 4 in C minor, D 417, 'Tragic', performed by the Academy Chamber Orchestra with Lorenza Borrani
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