MusicaFemina (Women Made Music) formed part of an exhibition staged in Vienna in 2018. It featured 100 female composers, from the time of Sappho to the present day. The two-month exhibition was viewed by 56,000 visitors, including the poet, filmmaker and composer Sophie Reyer, who was inspired to compose 100 poetic texts to complement the composers’ 100 short biographies. She offered these to contemporary composers as texts or audio portraits that could be used to create new musical works and act as postscripts to the lives of forgotten female composers. This poetic-musicological project produced an impressively profound snapshot of female composers, and a unique bridge between past and present composing practices.

Contents:

CD 1
Sophie Reyer / Susanna Ridler
- Anna Mahler - Mahler’s Anna

Susanna Ridler
- Olga Neuwirth - Dance, music box

Julia Lacherstorfer
- Violeta Parra - Lamen
- Mel Bonis - Dance of the flames

Melissa Coleman
- Meredith Monk - Straight to heaven
- Mayako Kubo - Hommage to Mayako Kubo

Pamelia Stickney
- Louise Adolphe le Beau - Sounds: always open
- Dora Pejacevic - What to do

Johanna Doderer
- Nad-a Boulanger · Alma Mahler Werfel

Elfi Aichinger
- Clara Schumann

Sophie Reyer / Elfi Aichinger
- May Aufderheide - Rag for May

Gabriele Proy
- Ursula Mamlok - Hommage to Ursula Mamlok

Susanne Hardt
- Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn
- Grażyna Baciewicz

Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin
- Leonora Duarte - Voca me · Kassia

Maria Gstaettner
- Sofia Gubaidulina - When voices are silenced

CD 2
Maria Gstaettner
- Hildegard von Bingen - Sounds

Sophie Reyer / Mia Zabelka
- Germaine Tailleferre · Patty Smith

Nazanin Aghakhani
- Lily Boulanger - Think of me eternally

Zeina Azouqah
- Kate Bush · Cheikha rimitti

Laura Mello
- Chiquinha Gonzaga - Bloco dos doidos são vocês
- Sahakdukt - Lamento da caverna

Zarah Lii
- Marianna von Martines

Annette Giesriegl
- Carla Bley · Celia Cruz

Elisabeth Harnik
- Pauline Oliveros - Sustain
- Yoko Ono - Clear the air

Yu-Chun Huang
- Yoko Ono

Iva Zabkar
- Nora Jones

Nathalie Hausmann
- Amy Winehouse - Rehab forever, Amy

Andrea Sodomka
- Ruth Schonthal - Soundtrack for Ruth

Sophie Reyer / Andrea Sodomka
- Ethel Smyth - Shout, shout

Doro Bohr
- Barbra Streisand