Classical Music Playlist, March 2, 2021
We have works by a different female composer every weekday during March, Women's History Month.
Throughout the day today you'll hear music of Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist born 1857 in Paris. She first studied music with her mother, a singer and pianist. However, her father disapproved of a formal education at a conservatory so she privately studied piano, violin and composition with individuals including acclaimed composer Benjamin Godard. By age eight she performed some of her own music for Georges Bizet who was impressed. Ten years later she gave her first public performance and her piano compositions, especially, soon became popular in France and abroad.
She toured France many times while young and with her compositions growing in favor, made her first of many tours to England at about age 35; then later, at about age 51, through the USA where sheet music of her piano pieces had already become popular and found in many homes. At about age 57 she was awarded France's highest order of merit, the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer.
Chaminade's piano music and songs won the most widespread success and critical reviews, while her ballet, opera and orchestral suites were less successful. Still, almost all of her music was published in her lifetime and sold well. Cécile Chaminade passed away in Monte Carlo in 1944.
Ambroise Thomas once said of Chaminade: "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman."
6:00 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertino Opus 107
Residentie Orkest Den Haag; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Sharon Bezaly, flute
6:08 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 1 in C minor Opus 11
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
6:41 a.m.
Samuel Arnold
POLLY: Overture
Toronto Camerata; Kevin Mallon, conductor
6:47 a.m.
William Grant Still
Vignettes for oboe, bassoon and piano
Sierra Winds
6:59 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 1 "Jota aragonesa"
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
7:10 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Keyboard Suite No. 5 "The Harmonious Blacksmith" - Air and Variations in E major HWV 430
John Williams, guitar
7:17 a.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Dance Card: IV. Celestial Blue
Chicago Sinfonietta; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
7:26 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE JOURNEY TO RHEIMS: Overture
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:34 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet #22 in Bb K 589
Dover Quartet
7:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture Opus 92
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Gloriana: Courtly Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
8:23 a.m.
Franz Lehar
Gold and Silver (waltz) Opus 79
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
8:31 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 85
Moscow Philharmonic; Ghennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
8:57 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Serenade Espagnole Opus 150
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Samuel Sanders, piano
9:00 a.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Antonio de Almeida, conductor
9:10 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
9:30 a.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
9:36 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
Bergen Philharmonic; Dmitri Kitayenko, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
10:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Egmont Overture Opus 84
New York Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor
10:09 a.m.
Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major
Sinfonia Finlandia (Jyvaskyla); Patrick Gallois, conductor
10:50 a.m.
Caroline Shaw
The Listeners: 1. Prologue
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale; Nicholas McGegan, conductor Avery Amereau, contralto
10:54 a.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella: Happiness Waltz
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 10 "The Hunt" in Bb major Opus 8 RV 362 (La Caccia)
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin
11:08 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Piano Sonata in C minor Opus 21
Joanne Polk, piano
11:26 a.m.
Eric Coates
London Suite: Knightsbridge March
New London Orchestra; Ronald Corp, conductor
11:31 a.m.
Jan Kalliwoda
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major Opus 17
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Harp Concerto: IV. Rap Knock
Rochester Philharmonic; Ward Stare, conductor Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
12:06 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian" in C minor Opus 17
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
12:41 p.m.
Ferde Grofe
Grand Canyon Suite: On the trail
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor
12:50 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals de Primavera
David Russell, guitar
12:56 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 3 in F major Opus 72
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in F major Opus 6
I Solisti Italiani
1:14 p.m.
E. J. Moeran
Cello Concerto
Ulster Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Guy Johnston, cello
1:44 p.m.
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony No. 2 in C major Opus 3
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Au pays bleu
Helene Guilmette, soprano; Martin Dube, piano
1:56 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
L'absente
Helene Guilmette, soprano; Martin Dube, piano
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 12 in G major K 110
Danish National Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer, conductor
2:15 p.m.
Henriette Renie
Harp Concerto in C minor
Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra; Shao-Chia Lu, conductor Xavier de Maistre, harp
2:36 p.m.
Eric Ewazen
A Hymn for the Lost and Living
United States Coast Guard Band; Commander Kenneth W. Megan, conductor
2:46 p.m.
Karl Goldmark
In Italy Overture Opus 49
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Athalia Overture Opus 74
Bamberg Symphony; Claus Peter Flor, conductor
3:09 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Symphony No. 1 "The Banner" (Baneret) in Bb major
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony; Michail Jurowski, conductor
3:49 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
Slava
CCM Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
RUSLAN AND LUDMILA: Overture
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Marin Marais
Bells of Saint Genevieve (Sonnerie de Ste. Genevive du Monte)
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba; Rolf Lislevand, lute; Pierre Hantai, harpsichord; Fabio Biondi, violin
4:09 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concert Etudes: Automne in Db major Opus 35/2
Anna Shelest, piano
4:14 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concert Etudes: Scherzo in C major Opus 35/1
Anna Shelest, piano
4:18 p.m.
Theodor von Schacht
Clarinet Concerto in Bb major
Concerto Amsterdam; Jaap Schroder, conductor Dieter Klocker, clarinet
4:44 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
City of London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, conductor
4:52 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Bruno Bartoletti, conductor
5:01 p.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
5:10 p.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in Bb major Wq 171 / H 436
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Richard Studt, conductor Timothy Hugh, cello
5:34 p.m.
David Pritchard
Stairs
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
5:39 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Enrique Batiz, conductor
5:49 p.m.
Enrique Soro
Three Chilean Airs (Tres aires chilenos)
Chile Symphony Orchestra; Jose Luis Dominguez, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Piano Trio No. 1 in G minor Opus 11
Trio Parnassus
6:22 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": II. Largo Opus 95
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Howard Hanson
MERRY MOUNT suite
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
6:53 p.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes: IV. Whippoorwill's Shoes
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
6:56 p.m.
Yann Tiersen
Amelie's Waltz
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
