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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Classical Music Playlist, March 5, 2025

 

Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)

This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on British composer and women’s rights activist Ethel Smyth.

  • Ethel Smyth was born in 1858 and in 1887 enrolled at the Leipzig Academy where she studied only one year before moving on to private study. 
  • During this time she met Brahms, Dvořák, Clara Schumann and Tchaikovsky among others.
  • Returning to England in 1890 and gaining recognition with various compositions, from 1893 to 1910 she focused on writing operas. 
  • A 1903 performance of her second opera Der Wald (The Forest) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York remained for over a century that company's only opera composed by a woman. The New York audience gave her a ten-minute ovation, though reviews were mixed. Positive reviews praised the music on its own merits; negative reviews complained that her music was “un-feminine.” 
  • From 1911 to 1913 Smyth was active with the English suffragette movement and her composition, The March of Women, became an anthem for the movement. 
  • Smyth was the first female composer to be awarded a damehood (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1922 and received honorary doctorates from Universities of Oxford and Durham.
  • Smyth died in 1944 at the age of 86.
  • Her 1927 “Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra” is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Maurice Greene
Overture No. 1 in D major
Baroque Band; Garry Clarke, conductor
6:06 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
String Quintet in E major Opus 1
Mannheim String Quartet
6:34 a.m.
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Trio for horn, oboe and piano in D major Opus 61
Barry Tuckwell, horn; Ingo Goritzki, oboe; Ricardo Requejo, piano
7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 6/5 HWV 323
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
7:17 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Steven Stucky
Funeral Music for Queen Mary (after Henry Purcell)
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band; Timothy Foley, conductor
7:49 a.m.
Richard Addinsell
Warsaw Concerto
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Moshe Atzmon, conductor Cristina Ortiz, piano
8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4: IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco in F minor Opus 36
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major K 503
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
8:41 a.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Summer in Buenos Aires (Verano Porteno)
David Tanenbaum, guitar
8:44 a.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: IV. Porro
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
8:48 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
THE BOATSWAIN'S MATE: Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Rumon Gamba, conductor
8:56 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor Opus 34
Artemis Quartet Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
9:00 a.m.
9:38 a.m.
Henry Purcell
Indian Queen: Symphony
Parley of Instruments
9:44 a.m.
Louis Theodore Gouvy
Symphonie breve in G minor Opus 58
Saarbrucken Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacques Mercier, conductor
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
FIDELIO Overture Opus 72
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
10:07 a.m.
Carlos Gardel
Cuando Tu No Estas
Franz Halasz, guitar
10:12 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
String Quartet in E minor
Mannheim String Quartet
10:55 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Ricardo Castro
Piano Concerto: III. Polonaise in A minor Opus 22
Orquesta Sinf�nica de Miner�a (OSM); Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
11:08 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Symphony No. 1 in C major Opus 19
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:35 a.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Rain
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
11:41 a.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Platee: Suite
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9: II. Molto Vivace (Scherzo and Trio) in D minor Opus 125
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
12:00 p.m.
12:12 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Mock Morris
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
12:17 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Piano Trio in D minor
Neave Trio
12:49 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
Love Theme from ON THE WATERFRONT (Symphonic Suite)
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:55 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue "Little Fugue" in G minor BWV 578
Canadian Brass
1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
1:15 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 6
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
1:20 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
1:25 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento
Orchestre de Paris; Semyon Bychkov, conductor
1:51 p.m.
Henry Litolff
Concerto Symphonique No. 4: II. Scherzo Opus 102
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Moshe Atzmon, conductor Cristina Ortiz, piano
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Sophie Langdon, violin; Richard Watkins, horn
2:29 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for two violins, Op. 3, No. 8 in A minor Opus 3 RV 522
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Jeanne Lamon, violin; Genevieve Gilardeau, violin
2:39 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Waltz No. 1 "Grande Valse Brillante" in Eb major Opus 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
2:45 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Two Nordic Melodies Opus 63
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture Opus 81
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
3:14 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in C major Opus 21
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
3:42 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Four Songs: 2. The Dance
Berkeley Ensemble; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Lucy Stevens, contralto
3:49 p.m.
Michael Torke
Bright Blue Music
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
4:00 p.m.
4:09 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor Opus 56
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:45 p.m.
William Bolcom
Fields of Flowers
Spencer Meyer, piano
4:48 p.m.
Francesco Tristano
Toccata
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Francesco Tristano, piano
4:52 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture Opus 96
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor BWV 1056
Staatskapelle Berlin Simone Dinnerstein, piano
5:00 p.m.
5:09 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
5:46 p.m.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet: II. Quarter Note = 132
Pacifica Quartet Otis Murphy, alto saxophone
5:51 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Overture
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Pavel Vranicky
Symphony in D major Opus 52
Dvorak Chamber Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Roscatha
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
6:47 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Poetic Tone Pictures: III. In the Old Castle Opus 85/3
Antonin Kubalek, piano
6:53 p.m.
Vladimir Martynov
The Beatitudes
Kronos Quartet

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