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The women that score

Matthew Sweet reflects on how gender representation in film scoring has changed in the 25 years since Rachel Portman composed Emma and collected the Oscar for best soundtrack.

It鈥檚 25 years since Rachel Portman composed the music for Emma and collected an Academy Award for Best Soundtrack, the first woman to merit such recognition, since which time there has been an array of talented female composers all eager to follow her lead - and yet a recent survey noted that an annual list of top 250 box office rated films, 94% of them were scored by men.
Matthew Sweet marks International Women鈥檚 Day with a look at woman who score films, featuring a wide ranging selection of music from across a variety of genres. The programme includes great pioneers of the past, such as Elisabeth Lutyens and Shirley Walker, as well as some of the excitingly diverse, up-and-coming names, hungry for attention now.

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Sat 6 Mar 2021 15:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Rachel Portman

    Emma; End Titles

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • Hollywood Records.

  • Shirley Walker

    Batman Mask of the Phantasm; Main Title & Ski Mask Vigilante

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • La-La Land Records.

  • Pinar Toprak

    Captain Marvel

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Hollywood Records.

  • Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir

    Joker; Meeting Bruce Wayne

    Performer: Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir.
    • WaterTower Music.

  • Laura Karpman

    Regarding Susan Sontag

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Lakeshore Records.

  • Lesley Barber

    Manchester By The Sea "By The Sea Chorale", "Minimalist Piano and Strings"

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Manchester by the Sea (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Milan.

  • Mica Levi

    Monos; Guerreros & Aullido

    Performer: Mica Levi.
    • Lakeshore Records.

  • Elisabeth Lutyens

    The Skull; End Titles

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
    • NMC.

  • Brittany Allen

    Z; Story of a Family & Imagination

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Lakeshore Records.

  • Carly Paradis

    Line of Duty; Opening Title Theme

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • World Productions Group.

  • Natalie Holt

    Herself; The Lass

    Singer: Una Palliser.

  • Alexandra Harwood

    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Amelia Warner

    Wild Mountain Thyme; Welcome To Ireland

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Lakeshore Records.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Vita and Virginia; End Credits Part 1

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Varese Sarabande.

  • Rachel Portman

    Emma; Main Titles, Sewing and Archery & Proposal

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • Hollywood Records.

  • Aidan O鈥橰ourke

    Iorram - Infuse my eyes with molten grey skies

    Performer: Aidan O鈥橰ourke.

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  • Sat 6 Mar 2021 15:00
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