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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Classical Music Playlist, March 11, 2025

 

Marianne Martinez (1744-1812)

One of Mozart’s Sonatas for Piano 4-Hands is today’s Midday Masterpiece. And a pianist-composer with whom he is known to have performed piano 4-hands music, Marianne Martinez, is today’s featured composer for Women’s History Month.

  • Marianne Martinez was an Austrian composer born into a prominent Vienna family and became widely esteemed during the age of Haydn and Mozart; in fact, she has personal associations with both. 
  • Though she gained fame throughout Europe during her lifetime and wrote about 200 works, including the only known symphony by a woman during the Classical period, like other female composers her reputation was downplayed after her death. 
  • Born in 1744, the large building where her family lived in Vienna included other many notable residents including one who was unknown at the time but would become famous: in the cold attic room for a tenant of low status lived the young aspiring composer Joseph Haydn, from whom Marianne took piano lessons.
  • Her talent for composition was soon recognized and begun further lessons including with the Imperial Court composer. Her talent for playing keyboard and singing grew to such proficiency that she performed before the Imperial Court.
  • Her compositions eventually included symphonic masses, oratorios and instrumental works and her name and music became well known throughout Europe.
  • Inconceivable for her in 1744 to hold any prominent musical position, she mostly stayed at home and wrote music for friends, for the court and for religious events. Later, she held weekly soirées in her home at which Mozart was a frequent guest who composed four-hand piano sonatas for them to perform together. 
  • A fire in 1927 destroyed many of her manuscripts so the full extent of her compositional output remains unclear, as well as when she began and ended writing music.
  • Never married, Martinez died of tuberculosis on December 13, 1812.
6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto No. 8 in C minor Opus 4/8
Avison Ensemble; Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 7 in E minor G 451
Bingham String Quartet Jason Carter, guitar
6:29 a.m.
Philip Glass
Powaqqatsi (Film Score): Anthem 1
Philip Glass Ensemble; MIchael Reisman, conductor
6:37 a.m.
Joseph White
Violin Concerto in F# minor
Encore Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Hege, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major Opus 3/4a HWV 315
Musicians of the Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
7:42 a.m.
Julia Perry
Ye, Who Seek the Truth
Experiential Orchestra; James Blachly, conductor
7:46 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus No. 9 BWV 1080
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement in D major
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Vanda: Overture Opus 25
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Libor Pesek, conductor
8:00 a.m.
8:09 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 104 "London" in D major
Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox, conductor
8:37 a.m.
Marianna Martines
Piano Concerto in A Major in A major
Orqueste Filarmonia Iberica; Melani Mestre, conductor Melani Mestre, piano
8:54 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in F minor Opus 73
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
9:00 a.m.
9:02 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
9:36 a.m.
James Louis "J.J." Johnson
Lament
Kristin Lee, violin; Jeremy Ajani Jordan, piano
9:42 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde Overture Opus 26 D 797 (The Magic Harp)
London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor
9:53 a.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
KHOVANSHCHINA: Dawn on the Moscow River
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
10:11 a.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto para una fiesta
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Sachio Fujioka, conductor Craig Ogden, guitar
10:41 a.m.
Marianna Martines
BERENICE, AH CHE FAI?
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nuria Rial, soprano
10:55 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major Opus 46
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
11:00 a.m.
11:01 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
11:18 a.m.
Felipe Villanueva
Poetic Waltz (Vals Poetico)
State of Mexico Symphony; Enrique Batiz, conductor
11:21 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite: III. Alla Marcia Opus 11
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
11:27 a.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
11:49 a.m.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Overture
Polish National Radio Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor
12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
Hugo Alfven
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsummer Night Vigil" Opus 19
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor
12:13 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite Opus 40
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
12:35 p.m.
Marianne Martinez
Concerto for Harpsichord in E major: I. Allegro in E major
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nicoleta Paraschivescu, harpsichord
12:43 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
1:13 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" in Eb major Opus 97
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
1:45 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 14: V. Presto in C# minor Opus 131
Takacs Quartet
1:51 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tsar's Bride overture
Kirov Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, conductor
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in F major K 497
Ingrid Haebler, piano; Ludwig Hoffmann, piano
2:27 p.m.
Marianna Martines
IL PRIMO AMORE
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nuria Rial, soprano
2:40 p.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
2:46 p.m.
Richard Strauss
DER ROSENKAVALIER: Waltz Sequence No. 1
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G major Opus 6/1 HWV 319
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
3:12 p.m.
Mykola Lysenko
Suite on Ukrainian Themes: II. Courante Opus 2
Anna Shelest, piano
3:16 p.m.
Francois Couperin
Courante No. 1 (Suite No. 1)
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp
3:21 p.m.
Victor Herbert
Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor Opus 30
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Lynn Harrell, cello
3:46 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 "Carnival in Pest" in D major
Weimar State Orchestra; Arthur Fagen, conductor
4:00 p.m.
4:01 p.m.
Marianna Martines
Sinfonia in C major
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor
4:13 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HOB 18:11
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:33 p.m.
Johann Heinichen
Concerto in F major S 235
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 7: III. Precipitato in Bb major Opus 83
Wei Luo, piano
4:54 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture Opus 101
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
5:00 p.m.
5:09 p.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Variations on a Nursery Song Opus 25
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
5:33 p.m.
Hubert Parry
Lady Radnor's Suite
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
5:50 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: IV. Allegro energico e passionato in E minor Opus 98
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:01 p.m.
Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 1 in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:27 p.m.
Marianne Martinez
Concerto for Harpsichord in E major: I. Allegro in E major
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nicoleta Paraschivescu, harpsichord
6:35 p.m.
Neil Gladd
The Goldberg Rag
Ugo Orlandi, mandolin; Claudio Mandonico, piano; Daniele Bosio, tuba
6:37 p.m.
Max Richter
Summer 3
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Andre de Ridder, conductor Daniel Hope, violin
6:43 p.m.
Anatol Liadov
The Enchanted Lake Opus 62
London Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:51 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
THREE BLACK KINGS: Martin Luther King
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Sal Andolina, clarinet and alto saxophone

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