Classical Music Playlist, March 22, 2023
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 Mélanie Bonis.
- Mélanie Hélène Bonis was born in Paris in 1858 into a non-musical family.
- She taught herself piano and, when she was 12, a professor at the Paris Conservatory persuaded her parents to allow Mélanie to study music. At age 16 César Franck gave her piano lessons and at 17 was a fellow student at the Conservatory with Claude Debussy.
- Despite excelling at classes in accompaniment, harmony and composition (and winning prizes for each) the prevailing thought was that a career as a composer was impossible for a woman as no woman could possibly compose anything of value. So, in an attempt to conceal her femininity, she adopted the pseudonym Mel Bonis.
- In 1883 her family arranged that she marry a businessman 25 years her senior. For ten years Mélanie managed the family, two elegant mansions and staff. She entertained and led a bourgeois life with no pursuit of music…
- …until ten years later when she again met a man she knew at the Paris Conservatory who encouraged her to resume composing and introduced her to musical society.
- She would go on to write over 300 works for solo piano, songs, religious music for a capella choir or accompanied by organ or harp; sonatas, quartets, a septet, and orchestral works. She put tremendous energy into music; composing, promoting it, and winning prizes.
- Mélanie died in 1937 at age 79.
6:00 a.m.
William Boyce
Symphony No. 8 in D minor Opus 2
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
6:12 a.m.
Alexander Borodin
Petite Suite
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Ghennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
6:43 a.m.
Joaquin Turina
Sevillana Opus 29
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
6:50 a.m.
Amy Beach
Tyrolin Valse-Fantasie Opus 116
Alan Feinberg, piano
7:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major Opus 3/4a HWV 315
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Alexey Shor
Seascapes for Viola and Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry, conductor David Aaron Carpenter, viola
7:35 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic" in Ab major Opus 53
Olga Kern, piano
7:43 a.m.
Vassili Kalinnikov
Symphony No. 1: II. Andante commodamente in G minor
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
7:55 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Soir et Matin: II. Matin (Morning) in Bb major Opus 76
Mozart Piano Quartet
7:59 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet: I. Allegro non troppo in F minor Opus 34
Artemis Quartet Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
8:28 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9: II. Scherzo in D minor WAB 109
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, conductor
8:40 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
8:50 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
8:59 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Suite in the Ancient Style Opus 127
Members of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony
9:13 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
9:22 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Vernon Handley, conductor
9:38 a.m.
Enrique Soro
Three Chilean Airs (Tres aires chilenos)
Chile Symphony Orchestra; Jose Luis Dominguez, conductor
9:52 a.m.
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No. 2: III. Rondo in Eb major
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
10:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace in A major Opus 92
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
Lauren Scott, harp
10:22 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major Opus 124
Mozart Piano Quartet
10:48 a.m.
Camargo Mozart Guarnieri
Brazilian Dance (Dansa Brasiliera)
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:54 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DON GIOVANNI Overture K 527
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Christian Baldini, conductor
11:02 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in A major Opus 6/11 HWV 329
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor
11:20 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Maxixe
Xuefei Yang, guitar
11:26 a.m.
Michael Torke
Sky: I. Lively
Albany Symphony Orchestra; David Alan Miller, conductor Tessa Lark, violin
11:38 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
Inon Barnatan, piano
11:47 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; Libor Pesek, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
12:11 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Femmes de Legende: Phoebe Opus 30
Kyra Steckeweh, piano
12:18 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Opus 43
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
12:42 p.m.
Maddalena Casulana
Morir non puo il mio cuore
Palaver Strings
12:48 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
1:00 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Saul: Sinfonia HWV 53
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Trevor Pinnock, organ
1:18 p.m.
Gunther Schuller
Suite for Wind Quintet: II. Blues
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
1:20 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 6
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
1:26 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
1:50 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Bruno Bartoletti, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Piano Quartet No. 1 in Bb major Opus 69
Mozart Piano Quartet
2:25 p.m.
John Williams
Lincoln: With Malice Toward None
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
2:31 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphonic Variations Opus 78
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
2:55 p.m.
Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor: II. Adagio in D minor
BBC Concert Orchestra; Richard Balcombe, conductor Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
3:01 p.m.
William Grant Still
Panamanian Dances (Danzas de Panama)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
3:16 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Overture in A minor
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:27 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 30 "Alleluja" in C major
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
3:42 p.m.
Olivia Belli
Nocturne IV
Olivia Belli, piano
3:49 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Guitar (or Mandolin) Concerto in D major RV 93
I Musici Siegfried Behrend, guitar
3:59 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3: I. Allegro con brio in F major Opus 90
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
4:11 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Sonate, Op. 64: I. Andantino con moto
Juliette Hurel, flute; Helene Couvert, piano
4:20 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 15 in Bb major K 450
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
4:45 p.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: III. Bambuco
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
4:52 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
CANDIDE: Overture
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
4:58 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor
5:15 p.m.
Arvo Part
Estonian Lullaby
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Reiko Uchida, piano
5:22 p.m.
Arturo Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
5:33 p.m.
Max Richter
Mercy
Hilary Hahn, violin; Cory Smythe, piano
5:42 p.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
6:01 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
6:34 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Soir et Matin: I. Soir (Evening) in Bb major Opus 76
Mozart Piano Quartet
6:40 p.m.
Henning Sommerro
Varsog
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
6:44 p.m.
John Williams
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Raiders' March
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
6:50 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 4
Angelica Hairston, harp
6:54 p.m.
Otto Kelland
Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's
Ofra Harnoy, cello; Mike Herriott, brass
