Songs from the Heart

Led by lesbian conductor Cynthia Powell, the estrogen-fueled Melodia Women's Choir belts out some rarely heard works by Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as Azerbaijan's Tofig Guliyev. Taisiya Pushkar provides a piano interlude with pieces by Robert and Clara Schumann.