Ep. 46: Sandra Mogensen

*All Talking Classical podcasts formerly on SoundCloud redirected to Anchor.* In this podcast, we'll be hearing from Canadian pianist Sandra Mogensen. To commemorate the bicentenary of Clara Schumann's birth, Sandra released an album in December 2019 entitled En Pleine Lumière (In Full Light), a collection of piano music by women composers from c.1840-1870. It is part of a multi-album and concert project, shedding light on women composers, of which En Pleine Lumière is the first album. In this podcast, Sandra discusses the research process of finding these often neglected gems, common perceptions and stereotypes surrounding the music of women composers, and what the classical music industry and people ― like Sandra ― can do to help alleviate these. This is a wonderfully enlightening discussion to end 2020 so I hope that you enjoy it and the album as much as I did! Links: Sandra's bio: https://www.sandramogensen.com/about. Sandra's album En Pleine Lumière: https://sandramogensen.bandcamp.com/album/en-pleine-lumi-re Sandra's Patreon: patreon.com/sandramogensen. "Piano Music, She Wrote" YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/34URsmv. Statistics quoted in the podcast are cited from this article. "Female composers largely ignored by concert line-ups' by Mark Brown, The Guardian (13 June 2018): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/13/female-composers-largely-ignored-by-concert-line-ups. Music in this podcast: Music by audionautix.com. "Alla What (parody)," Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com. Used in full and edited forms for the podcast. Gavotte by Helen Hopekirk Feuilles d'automne (Autumn Leaves). Both extracts performed by Sandra Mogensen and taken from her album En Pleine Lumière. Album released December 4, 2019, recorded in Wuppertal, Germany, June 2019, and produced and mastered by Kaling Hanke. Questions re-recorded for the podcast due to sound quality.