March of the Women

As part of this year's WOW -– Women of the World festival, Sandi Toksvig hosts a night of comedy, stories and music inspired by great women. With Jo Brand, Sharon D Clarke, Jane Glover, Lucy Parham, Stevie Wishart and comedian-turned-conductor Sue Perkins, who conducts an all-woman orchestra in the suffragette-composer Dame Ethel Smyth's 'March of the Women'. Plus, Jane Glover conducts the WOW Orchestra in Lili Boulanger's 'Les sirènes'; Amy Beach's Allegro con fuoco (first movt) from Symphony in E minor, Op 32 ('Gaelic'); Hildegard of Bingen's 'O Choruscans lux stellarum' (arr Stevie Wishart); and Clara Schumann's Allegro non troppo – Allegro molto (finale) from Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 7a.