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We’re celebrating International Women’s Day this issue, and it falls in a landmark year – the centenary of (some) British women first getting the vote.

One composer, in particular, was right at the heart of the suffrage movement. Dame Ethel Smyth penned the anthem

The March of the Women, which, her friend Sir Thomas Beecham recalled, she conducted from a window of Holloway Prison – with a toothbrush. Her courage as a suffragette paid off but her music has not fared so well. Yet times are changing, and more artists and labels are starting to record music by women. There’s still a long way to go, but this issue you can enjoy reviews of discs of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Elizabeth Maconchy, Lucija Garu¯ta, Onut Narbutait , Andrea Tarrodi and Cheryl Frances-hoad.

Rebecca Franks reviews editor This month’s critics John Allison, Nicholas Anderson, Terry Blain, Kate Bolton-porciatti, Garry Booth, Geo Brown, Anthony Burton, Michael Church, Christopher Cook, Martin Cotton, Christopher Dingle, Misha Donat, Jessica Duchen, Rebecca Franks, Hannah French, George Hall, Malcolm Hayes, Julian Haylock, Claire Jackson, Daniel Ja é, Stephen Johnson, Berta Joncus, Erik Levi, Natasha Loges, Max Loppert, Andrew Mcgregor, David Nice, Roger Nichols, Bayan Northcott, Anna Picard, Steph Power, Anthony Pryer, Paul Riley, Michael Scott Rohan, Jan Smaczny, Geo rey Smith, Michael Tanner, Kate Wakeling, Helen Wallace