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This varied collection of music by women composers and performed by women musicians originates from a German concert series. The quality and style of the music range all over the map, from a good Baroque oboe sonata to a blandly euphonious harp sonata to the dissonant intensity of an unaccompanied violin sonata. The only real loser is a repetitious pop-style song for voice and guitar; highlights include the powerful Violin Sonata by Bacewicz (magnificently played by Abel), unaccompanied wind works by Kukuck and Olive, and two pieces by the well-known Gubaidulina. Weichert plays a salon piece by Chaminade with great flair. There is more than enough fine music here to make the disc worth hearing, and the concert recordings are vivid in both sound and performance. --Leslie Gerber