I think that it's important to use first & last names when citing women composers. The exception being if it's the context of say, an article and a name's being used numerous times. Even in the case of composers with unusual surnames, they're just too unknown by most people for last names only.

Wow thanks - how did I miss this?!

Thank you for listening! ❤️

Thanks for this. Hensel's Eb string quartet is one my absolute favourites in the genre - by anyone. Nary a miss; every movement knocks it out of the park. 🤘🔥

With regard to music by historical women composers, first ever recordings are actually a regular occurrence. "Whoa! Dude! New Rita Strohl just dropped!" 🤘🔥

I did a record like that; it was all cello improvisations (my own). The advantage is that you can pick and choose the bits when magic happens. For much of that album, a listener wouldn't necessarily know that it was improvised.

For example the not-Casals character plays at the White House for Hoover, not Kennedy. And somehow with the arc of the real Casals' life - early 20th century/Franco in Spain etc - it really works. So many good audiobooks! "Quartet" by Leah Broad Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series is great.

"The Spanish Bow" by Andromeda Romano-Lax. It's sort of like what the movie 'Dreamgirls' is to the real life Supremes. It's a reimagining of a Casals-like character, but in a different time period. It's weird, but some ways it tracks as more "realistic" than what happened in reality. 1/2

They used one movement, from one extremely famous symphony by a white male canon composer. "Science!" (Yes, in the voice from the Thomas Dolby song).

I've listened especially to the Dorothy Howell concerto sooooo many times.