The nineteenth-century salon was an essential medium for the presentation of new artistic and literary trends. There was also a clear female supremacy inherited from the salons of the 18th century, in which noblewomen and female members of the gentry set the tone and dominated the cultural society. This was the place to listen to chamber music, salonnière operas or transcriptions of piano songs on other instruments such as the guitar or harp. In order to recreate the musical atmosphere of a nineteenth-century salon, this recording will focus on female composers only. Presented are works the famous opera diva Pauline Viardot (1821-1919), the equally famous, even legendary Maria Malibrán (1808-1836, the younger sister of Pauline Viardot), Isabella Colbrán (1785-1845), Pauline Duchambge (1778-1858), Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805-1847) and Clara Wieck-Schumann (1819-1896). Cristina Bayón studied at the Advanced Music Conservatory of her native city Seville. She completed her training at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, Germany, where she took degrees in historical singing under María Cristina Kiehr. She worked with conductors such as Christoph Coin, Diego Fasolis, Monica Huggett and with groups like Vozes de Al Ayre Español. Guitarist Jesús Pineda took master classes with Alberto Ponce, Leo Brouwer, Roland Dyens or David Russell. He has won nine prizes in national and international competitions, among which the "Andrés Segovia" Competition. He is Doctor "Cum Laude" from the University of Seville with a Thesis on the guitar work of the composer Manuel Castillo.