Classical Music Playlist, March 25, 2025
Valerie Coleman | photo: Kia Caldwell
Our featured artist today for Women’s History Month is American composer and flutist Valerie Coleman. She performs with the ensemble she founded, Imani Winds, in a 2004 recording of "Aires Tropicales" by 16-time Grammy-winning Cuban-American composer and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera for today's Midday Masterpiece.
- Valerie Coleman is an American composer, GRAMMY®-nominated flutist and entrepreneur.
- Highlighted as one of the “Top 35 Women Composers” by The Washington Post, she was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year.
- Coleman is the founder and former flutist of Imani Winds, an ensemble whose 24-year legacy is documented in a dedicated exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. She more recently founded and currently performs as flutist of the performer-composer trio Umama Womama.
- Committed to arts education, entrepreneurship and chamber music advocacy, Coleman created the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival in 2011, a summer mentorship program in New York City welcoming young leaders from over 100 international institutions. She has held flute and chamber music masterclasses at institutions in 49 states and over five continents.
- In February 2024, Coleman was appointed to the Composition Department faculty at The Juilliard School and holds faculty positions with the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes School of Music Flute and Composition Department.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for violin, two cellos and strings in C major RV 561
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor Fabio Biondi, violin; Maurizio Naddeo, cello; Antonio Fantinuoli, cello
6:08 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 33 in Bb major K 319
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
6:33 a.m.
Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Saltarello
Calliope
6:36 a.m.
ANONYMOUS
Saltarello
Calliope
6:41 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Dances Opus 35
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro giocoso ma non troppo (Finale) in A minor Opus 53
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
7:13 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Bagatelles Opus 47
Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
7:34 a.m.
Zenobia Powell Perry; Josephine Gandolfi, arr.
Tawawa House Suite: 3. Sunday Dance Tune
Josephine Gandolfi, piano; Deanne Tucker, piano
7:36 a.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro in D major
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
7:42 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol Opus 34
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
7:59 a.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
8:12 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Opus 18
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
8:45 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Umoja
Imani Winds
8:48 a.m.
Lalo Schifrin
from La Nouvelle Orleans
Imani Winds
8:53 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
FIDELIO Overture Opus 72
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
9:01 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9 "The Great C major" in C major D 944
Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor
9:49 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Das Jahr (The Year): 6. June: Serenade
Anna Shelest, piano
9:55 a.m.
Paul Hindemith
Kleine Kammermusik: I. Lustig Opus 24/2 fun; happily; merrily
Bergen Wind Quintet
10:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 10 in C major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor
Saint Cecilia Chamber Orchestra; Pietro Spada, conductor Pietro Spada, piano
10:40 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Shotgun Houses: III. Rome 1960
Pacifica Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
10:48 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Violin Concerto: III. Rondo - Allegro in D major Opus 61
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Henryk Szeryng, violin
10:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
11:23 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria Variata in A minor BWV 989
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
11:39 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for Guitar and Strings No. 9: IV. Finale "Retreat from Madrid" in C major G 453
Bingham String Quartet Jason Carter, guitar
11:47 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
University of Texas Wind Ensemble; Jerry Junkin, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Spring Song
Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
12:10 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Don Juan Opus 20
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
12:30 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
Imani Winds
12:36 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
12:57 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1042
English Chamber Orchestra; Pinchas Zukerman, conductor Pinchas Zukerman, violin
1:15 p.m.
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Procession of the Sardar Opus 10
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
1:20 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
1:45 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: IV. From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales
Imani Winds
2:29 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite suite
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
2:43 p.m.
Mahito Yokota
SUPER MARIO GALAXY: Gusty Garden Galaxy
London Philharmonic Orchestra
2:48 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro giocoso ma non troppo (Finale) in A minor Opus 53
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
3:00 p.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
3:26 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale in C major Opus 1
Norman Krieger, piano
3:35 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Studio Orchestra; William Goodchild, conductor John Williams, guitar
3:41 p.m.
Benjamin Britten
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Opus 34
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Davis, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Josef Suk
Fantastic Scherzo Opus 25
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
4:15 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 54
Berlin Philharmonic; Mariss Jansons, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:46 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Concerto for Wind Quintet: I. Afro
Imani Winds
4:51 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
4:59 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 "Classical" in D major Opus 25
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
5:14 p.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Strum
Catalyst Quartet
5:21 p.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No. 1: II. Vivacissimo in Bb minor Opus 1
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Manze, conductor Seta Tanyel, piano
5:27 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major K 313
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor Jacques Zoon, flute
5:50 p.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
New York Philharmonic; Thomas Schippers, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Opus 19
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
6:36 p.m.
Ron Nelson
Rocky Point Holiday
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
6:42 p.m.
Nigel Hess
Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Nigel Hess, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
6:45 p.m.
Toumani Diabate; Nico Muhly, arr.; Ian Gardiner, arr.
Moon Kaira
London Symphony Orchestra Toumani Diabate, kora
6:53 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Red Clay & Mississippi Delta
Imani Winds
