Larsen:
Big Sister Says, 1967 (from Love After 1950)

Cooman:
Ballad (from Gold into Diamonds)

Gordon:
My Mother is a Singer (from Sycamore Trees)

Weir:
Breasts! Song of the Innocent Wild-Child Edge

Bray:
Crossing Faultlines

Larsen:
from The Birth Project

Clarke:
Infant Joy

Grime:
from Bright Project

Price:
The Heart of a Woman

Dvorak:
Když mne stará matka

Brourman:
My Daughters

Conceived by soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode with the aim of telling often unheard stories about womanhood primarily through women’s own words and music, dream.risk.sing brings together songs about adolescence, bodies, love, work and legacy, while a palpable thread running throughout reminds listeners of the constraints on freedom that still exist in women’s lives. Bringing forward this subject matter – far from the staple of traditional song recitals – has involved Crawford and Bode in commissioning new music and reviving other, often unfamiliar repertoire, and the album includes a new song-cycle by Charlotte Bray, new arrangements of two songs from Judith Weir’s groundbreaking cycle woman.life.song, recent works by Helen Grime, Libby Larsenand others, as well as earlier twentieth-century contributions from Rebecca Clarke and Florence Price.