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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Classical Music Playlist, March 19, 2025

 

Florence Price | photo: G. Nelidoff / Florence Price Papers, University or Arkansas Libraries

This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on Florence Price.

  • Born in 1887 in Little Rock, American composer Florence Price began performing and composing in her childhood, graduated high school first in her class, studied at the New England Conservatory and graduated with honors in 1906.
  • Her first symphony and a piano sonata won first prizes in their categories in a 1932 competition. 
  • Part of the prize for that first symphony was a performance of it the next year by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, making it the first symphony by an African American woman to be performed by a major orchestra.
  • Price trailblazed many firsts, but she was not the first woman or the first African American to be ignored. Though she faced obstacles, she also enjoyed some success in her lifetime.
  • Following her death at age 66 in 1953, her legacy faded from the mainstream. But now more than 70 years later, especially following discovery of a trove of her missing and unknown compositions in 2009, her music is receiving wide recognition “on merit alone,” instead of on race and gender, as Price urged in a 1943 letter to a famous conductor.
  • For more about Florence Price, here is a detailed article by Price scholar Samantha Ege.  

Composed in 1945 and lost until 2009, the Symphony #4 by Florence Price is today’s Midday Masterpiece.

6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik III: concerto for horns, strings and continuo in Eb major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:16 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major HOB VIIb:1
Academy of Ancient Music; Stephen Mosko, conductor Ivan Monighetti, cello
6:41 a.m.
Joaquin Turina
Bullfighter's Prayer (Oracion del Torero) Opus 34
Los Romeros
6:50 a.m.
Florence Price
"mini" Quintet for Piano and Strings in E minor
Catalyst Quartet Michelle Cann, piano
7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for diverse instruments in C major RV 558
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 5 in D minor Opus 25
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Ronald Brautigam, piano
7:40 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2: II. Allegro molto in E minor Opus 27
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Waltz from Act I
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
7:56 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Vienna Blood Opus 354 Wiener Blut
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
8:00 a.m.
8:06 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O'Conor, piano
8:34 a.m.
Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes
Chicago Sinfonietta; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
8:47 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Libor Pesek, conductor
9:00 a.m.
9:01 a.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR Overture
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:14 a.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Ballet Suite (1919)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
9:37 a.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Jonathon Heyward, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
9:55 a.m.
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Lara Downes, piano
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 5 in Eb major Opus 82
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor
10:31 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest": III. Allegretto in D minor Opus 31/2
Andras Schiff, piano
10:40 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Outdoor Overture
Cleveland Pops Orchestra; Louis Lane, conductor
10:50 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
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 3
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
11:32 a.m.
Francisco Tarrega
Memories of the Alhambra (Recuerdos de la Alhambra)
Xuefei Yang, guitar
11:37 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
11:52 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 6 in D major Opus 46
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Concertpiece for 4 horns & orchestra: I. Lebhaft in F major Opus 86
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Members of...
12:10 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Piano Quintet in G minor Opus 1
Catalyst Quartet Stewart Goodyear, piano
12:40 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
12:51 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20: III. Rondo in D minor K 466
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Jeremy Denk, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major Opus 3/6 HWV 317
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor Richard Egarr, organ
1:11 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Takacs Quartet
1:40 p.m.
John Field
Nocturne No. 6 in F major H 40
Alice Sara Ott, piano
1:45 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": II. Largo in E minor Opus 95
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Seong-Jin Cho, piano
1:52 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Espana (Spanish Rhapsodie)
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 7 in D minor Opus 70
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Bomsori Kim, violin
2:35 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Tango in d minor
Lara Downes, piano
2:41 p.m.
Arturo Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
2:54 p.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Three Latin American Dances: The Mestizo Waltz
Utah Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Oboe Concerto No. 5 in C major Opus 9
Collegium Musicum 90; Simon Standage, conductor Anthony Robson, oboe
3:12 p.m.
Florence Price
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
3:16 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Sr.
Radetzky March Opus 228
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:22 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Isabelle van Keulen, violin
3:52 p.m.
John Williams
STAR WARS - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: The Rebel Fleet & End Title
London Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Otto Nicolai
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Overture
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
4:11 p.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
4:30 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
Chineke! Orchestra; Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
4:51 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 32
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
5:00 p.m.
5:01 p.m.
Franz Krommer
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 40
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor
5:30 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Zambra Granadina
David Russell, guitar
5:36 p.m.
Johan Svendsen
Carnival in Paris (Karnival i Paris) Opus 9
Latvian National Symphony; Terje Mikkelsen, conductor
5:51 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Trio "Ghost": I. Allegro vivace e con brio in D major Opus 70/1
The Gold Coast Trio Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; Susan Lamb Cook, cello; Hao Huang, piano
5:59 p.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Chineke! Orchestra; Roderick Cox, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:42 p.m.
Valentin Silvestrov
Bagatelle (Op. 1, No. 2) Opus 1/2
Helene Grimaud, piano
6:47 p.m.
Enrique Granados
La Maja de Goya
Christopher Parkening, guitar
6:53 p.m.
Jay Ungar; Molly Mason
The Harvest Home Suite: Autumn (Thanksgiving Hymn)
Nashville Chamber Orchestra Jay Ungar, fiddle; Molly Mason, guitar
6:56 p.m.
Max Richter
Autumn 3
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Andre de Ridder, conductor Daniel Hope, violin

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