Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

---

🎧 Listen to and follow Pierpaola Porqueddu on Spotify: open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/43oMRfrep3jilUBwApFSxd?si=gMzdjk3JQ1i61u81ciIzYQ
🎵 Buy the MP3 album on the Official Halidon Music Store: halidonmusic.com/it/female-classical-composers-album-9328.html
🛍️Visit the Halidon shop on Amazon: lnk.to/StoreHalidon

👉 The HalidonMusic Sync Licensing platform is now live at licensing.halidonmusic.com
📧 Subscribe to our newsletter and get a 20% discount for 10 days: bit.ly/HalidonNewsletter
☕ If you like what we do and would like to support us, you can now buy us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/halidonmusic. Donations will go towards keeping the YouTube channel going and funding new recording sessions with our amazing team of artists. Thank you! 🙏

Female Classical Composers isn’t a list; it’s a lantern.
Based on the new, upcoming album of the pianist Pierpaola Porqueddu, Music of the Heart (out in 2026), this project began as a question that could not be shaken: what if the women of the 18th, 19th, and early-20th century could speak to us plainly, without apology, and in their own terms, where they had so often been silenced? So she went digging—scores, letters, biographies—and built a recital covering piano works by some of the greatest, female composers of all times that moves like a conversation across rooms and years.
Fanny Mendelssohn greets us first, with a nocturne that feels like lamplight and lieder that demonstrate how bold of a writer she truly was. Hélène de Montgeroult answers in études that whisper elegance and nerve—a bridge between Mozart’s poise and Chopin’s intimacy, and the only woman to hold a first-class professorship in revolutionary Paris. Louise Farrenc stands her ground; the craft is immaculate, the spine unbent (remember the equal-pay fight she won).
Elsewhere the tone softens and gleams. Clara Schumann offers an inward voice—clear, poised, and quietly resolute. Cécile Chaminade writes with salon grace that never compromises on craft, turning memory into melody. Pauline Viardot leaves bright, well-cut miniatures that feel like conversations after dusk. Germaine Tailleferre answers with Parisian clarity and a wry neoclassical smile. And Amy Beach lets the horizon widen—dreaming by still waters, calm on the surface, strong underneath.
These aren’t footnotes. They’re rooms of their own—opened, dusted, and played with care. Press play, and let them speak.

Artwork: "At the Piano" by Theodore Robinson, 1887

Tracklist:

00:00:00 Fanny Mendelssohn - Notturno, H. 337
00:04:06 Fanny Mendelssohn - 3 Mélodies, Op. 4: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, Allegretto
00:05:37 Hélène de Montgeroult - Étude No. 41 in E-Flat Major
00:08:55 Hélène de Montgeroult - Étude No. 38 in A Minor
00:13:35 Hélène de Montgeroult - Étude No. 101 in C-Sharp Major
00:16:11 Fanny Mendelssohn - 3 Mélodies, Op. 5: No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Andante soave
00:20:15 Germaine Tailleferre - Valse lente
00:22:28 Amy Beach - By the Still Waters, Op. 114
00:25:10 Amy Beach - 4 Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3, Dreaming
00:31:51 Clara Schumann - Soirées musicales, Op. 6: No. 2, Notturno
00:36:49 Fanny Mendelssohn - 4 Lieder for Piano, Op. 8: No. 1, Allegro moderato
00:41:07 Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, Op. 21: No. 1, Andante
00:46:49 Louise Farrenc - 30 Etudes, Op. 26: No. 10 in F-Sharp Minor
00:52:19 Cécile Chaminade - 6 Romances sans paroles, Op. 76: No. 1, Souvenance
00:54:40 Pauline Viardot - Deux pièces pour piano: No. 2, Sérénade, VWV 3015
00:58:25 Hélène de Montgeroult - Étude No. 111 in G Minor
Pierpaola Porqueddu

© All rights reserved

---

Thank you so much for watching this video from the Halidon Music channel, we hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to share it and subscribe to our channel 🤗

#classicalmusic #women #recital #piano #femalecomposers