Classical Music Playlist, March 20, 2023
Fanny Mendelssohn | source: Library of Congress
CapRadio Classical and Jazz celebrates women in music all month long by featuring a different classical composer every weekday. Today's spotlight is on composer Fanny Mendelssohn.
- Fanny Mendelssohn was born in 1805 and as a child was given piano and composition lessons at the same time as her four-years-younger brother Felix and by the same teachers.
- In 1816, the composition teacher wrote to the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that, “[Fanny] could give you something of Sebastian Bach. This child is really something special."
- Despite her renowned talent as a pianist and composer, 19th century social conventions upon women stifled her from pursuing a career.
- But brother Felix privately supported his sister as a performer and composer and even had some of her songs published under his name.\
- She and Felix developed an intense bond and even at age 17 Fanny wrote of Felix, “I have watched the progress of his talent step by step, and may say I have contributed to his development. I have always been his only musical adviser, and he never writes down a [musical] thought before submitting it to my judgment." And this continued throughout their lives.
- At age 24 Fanny married the artist Wilhelm Hensel who supported her musical pursuits and encouraged her to publish, and her reputation as a composer became known. In 1846, at age 41, she published a collection of her songs under her own name, with blessings from Felix in personal correspondence.
- Fanny died from complications of a stroke in May 1847. Felix composed a string quartet in her memory then died six months after her. But he had also arranged for further publication of her music and these appeared in 1850. From 1987, many of her hundreds of unprinted works began to be published by the German publisher Furore Verlag, a house dedicated exclusively to the publication of music by women.
- One of the works that Felix arranged for publish after Fanny’s death, her Piano Trio in d-minor, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 10 in C major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
6:13 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in Bb major D 485
Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Bruggen, conductor
6:42 a.m.
John Williams
Seven Years in Tibet: Seven Years in Tibet
Studio Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
6:50 a.m.
Erik Satie
Gymnopedie No. 1
John O'Conor, piano
6:53 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Unsent Love Letters
Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano
6:59 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Cassazione Opus 6
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Tuomas Ollila, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 13 in Bb major K 333 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
7:36 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
City of London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Notturno H337
Betty Ann Miller, piano
7:55 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting) Opus 12
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Lawrance Collingwood, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings: I. Andante non troppo in C major Opus 48
St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Andras Schiff, piano
8:29 a.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL UND GRETEL Overture
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Jeffrey Tate, conductor
8:38 a.m.
George Enescu
Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
8:55 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
8:56 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Bergeslust Op. 10/5 Lust for mountains
Isabel Lippitz, soprano; Barbara Heller, piano
9:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 8: IV. Finale in G major Opus 88
Berlin Philharmonic; Rafael Kubelik, conductor Bomsori Kim, violin
9:10 a.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
9:19 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" in B minor D 759
Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
9:40 a.m.
Roland Dyens
Tango En Skai (Immitation Leather Tango)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
9:47 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Dances Opus 35
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:18 a.m.
Florence Price
Memory Mist
Lara Downes, piano
10:25 a.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
10:42 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Largo in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
10:49 a.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
11:12 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Mediterranean
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
11:21 a.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Violin Concerto: III. Finale "Rondo in the Lapland Style" in F# minor
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor Ulf Wallin, violin
11:29 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze BWV 208
Empire Brass Douglas Major, organ
11:38 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in Eb major
Nash Ensemble
11:58 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
12:09 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
12:17 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
12:40 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Sarah Cahill, piano
12:49 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Mars, Bringer of War Opus 32
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Wayne Marshall, organ
12:58 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
New Queen's Hall Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in C minor in C minor (1824, age 18) H128
Betty Ann Miller, piano
1:31 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Violin Concerto: II. Andante Opus 80
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra Philippe Graffin, violin
1:42 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 31 "Paris" in D major K 297
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor Opus 11
Nash Ensemble
2:25 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
PELLEAS ET MELISANDE: Sicilienne Opus 80
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
2:31 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Sinfonia Concertante in Bb major HOB 105
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor Marieke Blankestijn, violin; William Conway, cello; Douglas Boyd, oboe; Matthew Wilkie, bassoon
2:52 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Opus 65
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
3:01 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
3:16 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
3:27 p.m.
Arthur Foote
Suite for Strings in E major Opus 63
do.gma chamber orchestra; Mikhail Gurewitsch, conductor
3:44 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Treemonisha: Prelude Act III
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra; Gunther Schuller, conductor
3:52 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
3:58 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Waltz
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
4:07 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Sonata Movement (Sonatensatz) in E in E major (1822, age 16) H44
Leanne Rees, piano
4:18 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Potsdam Chamber Acadamy Avi Avital, mandolin
4:40 p.m.
Ennio Morricone
The Mission: Gabriel's oboe
Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra; Ennio Morricone, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
4:50 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Serenade in Eb major Opus 7
Stockholm Philharmonic (members of); Paavo Berglund, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Overture Opus 10
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:10 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for Guitar and Strings No. 9: IV. Finale "Retreat from Madrid" in C major G 453
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble Pepe Romero, guitar
5:21 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in G minor in G minor (1843) H395
Anna Shelest, piano
5:39 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
5:46 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Marosszek Dances
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Opus 18
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
6:33 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass Opus 1/3 Why are the roses so pale?
Isabel Lippitz, soprano; Barbara Heller, piano
6:36 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Schwanenlied Opus 1/1 Swan Song
Isabel Lippitz, soprano; Barbara Heller, piano
6:40 p.m.
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan: Hymn to the Fallen
Boston Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Tanglewood Festival Chorus
6:47 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Sextet for wind quintet & piano: I. Allegro vivace FP 100
Pascal Roge, piano; Patrick Gallois, flute; Maurice Bourgue, oboe; Michel Portal, clarinet
6:55 p.m.
Philip Glass
The Truman Show: Truman Sleeps
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
