Classical Music Playlist, March 19, 2024
Louise Farrenc in 1835 by Luigi Rubio
This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on 19th century French composer Louise Farrenc.
- Composer, pianist and teacher Louise Farrenc was born in Paris in 1804 into a family of artists.
- Her musical talent was apparent early on and took private piano lessons from two of the period's most famous pianists. At age 15 in 1819 she enrolled at the Paris Conservatory where she studied piano. Women were not allowed to study composition at the Conservatory until 1870, so she studied this privately with Antonín Reicha.
- At age 17 in 1821 she married artist Aristide Farrenc who encouraged her to compose. They toured as a piano and flute duo and they later established what would become one of the leading music publishing houses in France that also printed her own compositions.
- From the mid 1820s she embarked on a concert career and by the 1830s had become famous.
- In 1842 Farrenc was appointed professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory, a position she held for 30 years. Though she was permitted only to teach women, she would be the only female tenured professor through the 19th century at the Paris Conservatory.
- For nearly ten years at the Conservatory she was paid significantly less than her male counterparts. That is, until the smashing success of her Nonet in 1850 after which she demanded, and won, equal pay.
Louise Farrenc’s final orchestral work, her Symphony No. 3 completed in 1847, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
6:09 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 1 in C minor Opus 32
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
6:45 a.m.
Zhen Chen
Springfield
Zhen Chen, piano; Jiaju Shen, pipa; Feifei Yang, erhu
6:50 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 3: III. Polonaise. Allegretto in F major Opus 70
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
6:59 a.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL UND GRETEL Overture
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Jeffrey Tate, conductor
7:09 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major Opus 135
Emerson String Quartet
7:34 a.m.
Lili Boulanger
One Spring Morning (D'un Matin de Printemps)
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1: IV. Finale in C minor Opus 68
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
8:08 a.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
The Glory of Spring: Sinfonia (Act I)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
8:15 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Sextet in C minor Opus 40
Linos Ensemble
8:42 a.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales: VI. Contradanza
Imani Winds
8:47 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Spring (La Primavera) in E major Opus 8/1 RV 269
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Jeanne Lamon, violin
8:58 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
My Home Overture Opus 62
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
9:09 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
9:18 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata No. 1 in C minor Opus 37
Konstanze Eickhorst, piano; Winfried Rademacher, violin
9:39 a.m.
Andrew York
Muir Woods
Andrew York, guitar
9:47 a.m.
John Knowles Paine
Symphony No. 2 "In the Spring": II. Scherzo (May-Night Fantasy) in A major Opus 34
Ulster Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Karl Goldmark
Im Fruhling Overture (In Spring) Opus 36
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
10:12 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio No. 1 in Eb major Opus 33
Neave Trio
10:48 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 1. El arpa del Guerrero
Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:53 a.m.
John Williams
The Reivers: Main Title
Studio Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior! Opus 13
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:15 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words "Spring Song" (Book V, No. 6) in A major Opus 62/6
Daniel Barenboim, piano
11:17 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Im Fruhling (In Spring) Opus 101 D 882 No. 1
Anne Sofie von Otter, alto; Bengt Forsberg, piano
11:24 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Vernon Handley, conductor Jonathan Small, oboe
11:43 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Song of Jean Racine (Cantique de Jean Racine) Opus 11
; Edward Higginbottom, conductor Oxford New College Choir
11:53 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO Overture K 384
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
12:16 p.m.
Ronn McFarlane
Fermi's Paradox
Carolyn Surrick, viola da gamba; Ronn McFarlane, lute
12:25 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Trio for flute, cello, and piano in E minor Opus 45
Linos Ensemble
12:51 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: III. Allegro giocoso in E minor Opus 98
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Spring in Buenos Aires (Primavera Portena)
A Far Cry Jason Vieaux, guitar; Julien Labro, bandoneon
1:09 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 8 "Christmas Concerto" in G minor Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
1:25 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
1:35 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintet for piano & winds in Eb major K 452
Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Neil Black, oboe; Thea King, clarinet; Frank Lloyd, horn; Robin O'Neill, bassoon
2:01 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Voices of Spring (Fruhlingsstimmen) Opus 410
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
2:10 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3 in G minor Opus 36
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
2:42 p.m.
Philip Glass
Metamorphosis II
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Francine Kay, piano
2:50 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 6: III. Intermezzo in C minor Opus 58
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
2:56 p.m.
Ruth Crawford (Seeger)
Rissolty Rossolty
Schonberg Ensemble; Oliver Knussen, conductor
3:01 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor
3:16 p.m.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Manchega, etude de concert Opus 38
Alan Feinberg, piano
3:23 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde Overture Opus 26 D 797 (The Magic Harp)
London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor
3:34 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Spring Song
Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
3:48 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Opus 80
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": III. Molto Vivace in B minor Opus 74
Kirov Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, conductor
4:10 p.m.
Alan Thomas
Sephardic Trio: III. Una Matica de Ruda (traditional wedding song)
Cavatina Duo [flute & guitar] David Cunliffe, cello
4:17 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor Opus 34
Linos Ensemble
4:45 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish": II. Vivace non troppo in A minor Opus 56
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
4:53 p.m.
Juventino Rosas
Over the Waves (Sobre las olas)
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
5:31 p.m.
Aaron Jay Kernis
100 Greatest Dance Hits: II. Salsa Pasada
Escher Quartet Jason Vieaux, guitar
5:35 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 RV 310
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
5:42 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Piano Trio No. 1: I. Allegro in G minor Opus 11
Neave Trio; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
5:52 p.m.
Silvestre Revueltas
Sensemaya
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Nonette in E flat in Eb major Opus 38
Minerva Chamber Ensemble; Kevin Geraldi, conductor
6:32 p.m.
Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
6:41 p.m.
Max Richter
Spring
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Andre de Ridder, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Max Richter, moog synthesizer
6:52 p.m.
Teng Yu-hsien
Spring Breeze
Xuefei Yang, guitar
6:56 p.m.
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen
Japanese Spring: Permanence in Change (Japanischer Fruhling)
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Lu Jia, conductor Solveig Kringelborn, soprano
