Classical Music Playlist, March 3, 2025
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
The opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris 150 years ago today: March 3rd, in 1875. About 35 minutes of music from the opera in the two “Carmen Suites” are today’s Midday Masterpiece.
This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's spotlight is on Margaret Bonds who was also born on this date in 1913 (and lived to 1972).
Margaret Bonds was born in 1913 into a home that was a meeting place for African American artists and intellectuals hosted by her mother, Estella, a gifted musician who gave Margaret her first music lessons.
One of the later visitors to their home was Florence Price when she moved to Chicago in 1927 and became a dear friend to both Margaret and Estella and taught piano to Margaret during her high school years.
Bonds was the first Black soloist to appear with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was the featured soloist in the Woman’s Symphony Orchestra of Chicago’s performance of Price’s single-movement Piano Concerto in D Minor (1934).
She met poet Langston Hughes in 1936 and became a lifelong friend and collaborator, especially during the 1950s when she set many of his poems to music.
In 1939 Bonds moved to New York City where she attended Juilliard and became involved in the cultural life of the Harlem neighborhood where she lived. Bonds formed a Chamber Music Society of black musicians who performed black classical composers and helped to establish a community center and served as the music director at a local church.
Bonds died in Los Angeles in 1972 at the age of 59.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Heinichen
Concerto in F major S 234
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:09 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orchestral Suite "Mozartiana" in G major Opus 61
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:35 a.m.
William Byrd
Ave verum corpus (All hail, O true body...)
; Peter Phillips, conductor The Tallis Scholars
6:40 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Fantasie for piano four-hands in F minor Opus 103 D 940
Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Wu Han, piano
6:59 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1042
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor Andrew Manze, violin
7:16 a.m.
Jan Kalliwoda
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major Opus 17
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 14: V. Presto in C# minor Opus 131
Takacs Quartet
7:51 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Espana (Spanish Rhapsodie)
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
7:59 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in A major Opus 6/11 HWV 329
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
8:17 a.m.
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor Earl Wild, piano
8:34 a.m.
Margaret Bonds
Hold On
PubliQuartet Musicality Vocal Ensemble; Lara Downes, piano
8:40 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1: IV. Finale in C minor Opus 68
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 7 in C# minor Opus 131
Berlin Philharmonic; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
9:33 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Asturias (Leyenda) - from "Suite Espanola" Opus 47
Xuefei Yang, guitar
9:40 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Mazurka No. 2 in G minor Opus 67
Frederic Chiu, piano
9:42 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 11 in F major Opus 72
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
9:46 a.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in C major H 659
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor Peter Westermann, oboe; Andreas Staier, harpsichord
10:00 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Carlos Guastavino
Las Presencias: VI. Jeromita Linares
Camerata Bariloche
10:27 a.m.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Alceste Suite
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
10:49 a.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major Opus 102
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano
11:20 a.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Romance Opus 35/6
Felix Klieser, horn; Christof Keymer, piano
11:23 a.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade: Waltz
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
11:29 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Opus 33
English Chamber Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Julian Lloyd Webber, cello
11:49 a.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in A minor Opus 199
Brasil Guitar Duo
11:54 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier I:01) in C major BWV 846
Angela Hewitt, piano
12:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: IV. Allegro energico e passionato in E minor Opus 98
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
12:11 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite
Michelle Cann, piano
12:25 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
12:50 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
12:58 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G minor Opus 6/6 HWV 324
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Solace
Tzimon Barto, piano
1:18 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Habanera
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
1:24 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major K 218
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie; Bruno Weil, conductor Lena Neudauer, violin
1:46 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Suite No. 2 in F major Opus 28
North Texas Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No. 1
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
2:12 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No. 2
Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Charles Dutoit, conductor
2:37 p.m.
Earl Wild
Grand Fantasie on Porgy and Bess: Summertime (After G. Gershwin)
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
2:42 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango: III. Night Club 1960
Manuel Barrueco, guitar; Emmanuel Pahud, flute
2:49 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Violin Concerto: III. Rondo - Allegro in D major Opus 61
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor Janine Jansen, violin
3:00 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Credo
The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra; Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
3:25 p.m.
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Capriccio No. 1 in D major Z 182
Bern Camerata; Alexander van Wijnkoop, conductor
3:41 p.m.
John Field
Rondo for piano & strings in Ab major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
3:50 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2: IV. Allegro con spirito in D major Opus 73
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major K 175
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
4:22 p.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four Folk Songs: III. Serenata
Claremont Trio
4:27 p.m.
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon: Overture
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:33 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons: March "Song of the Lark" Opus 37
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:35 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G minor in G minor Opus 23
Yuja Wang, piano
4:40 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Don Juan Opus 20
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
5:10 p.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in Bb major Opus 11
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
5:36 p.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
5:54 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Simon Bore the Cross
The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra; Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
6:39 p.m.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum: Prelude
Empire Brass William Kuhlman, organ
6:43 p.m.
William Grant Still
Suite for Violin and Piano: II. Mother and Child
Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle, piano
6:50 p.m.
Carlos Salzedo
Song in the Night (Chanson de la Nuit)
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
6:54 p.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
