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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Classical Music Playlist, March 5, 2026

 

Fanny Mendelssohn | source: Library of Congress

Every day in March for Women’s History Month CapRadio is celebrating Women In Music who brought us to where we are today and the innovators who keep moving music forward. Today's classical spotlight is on Fanny Mendelssohn.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn was born in 1805 and as a child was given piano and composition lessons at the same time as her four-years-younger brother Felix and by the same teachers.
  • Despite her renowned talent as a pianist and composer, 19th century social restrictions on women stifled her from pursuing a career. But brother Felix privately supported his sister as a performer and composer and even had some of her songs published under his name.
  • At age 24 Fanny married the artist Wilhelm Hensel who supported her musical pursuits and encouraged her to publish, and her reputation as a composer became known.
  • Fanny died from complications of a stroke in May 1847. Felix composed a string quartet in her memory then died six months after her. But he had also arranged for further publication of her music and these appeared in 1850. From 1987, many of her hundreds of unprinted works began to be published by the German publisher Furore Verlag, a house dedicated exclusively to the publication of music by women.
  • One of the works that Felix arranged to be published after Fanny’s death, her Piano Trio in d-minor, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Organ Concerto No. 2 in Bb major Opus 4
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor Richard Egarr, organ
6:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
6:45 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
Preludio
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
6:48 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier II:01) in C major BWV 870
Angela Hewitt, piano
6:53 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Alster Overture
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 3 in Bb major G 447
Artaria Quartet Richard Savino, guitar
7:25 a.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
7:43 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
7:45 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Sonata Movement (Sonatensatz) in E in E major (1822, age 16) H44
Leanne Rees, piano
7:53 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Phaeton - Symphonic Poem Opus 39
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 104 "London" in D major
Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox, conductor
8:41 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Sarah Cahill, piano
8:49 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Artist's Life Opus 316 Kunstlerleben
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 1
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
9:00 a.m.
9:17 a.m.
Thomas Morley
Four Dances
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
9:27 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Easter Sonata in A major H235 Ostersonate
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
9:53 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Easter Oratorio: I. Sinfonia BWV 249
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Jan Kalliwoda
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major Opus 17
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor
10:30 a.m.
Jorge Calandrelli
Solitude
Milos Karadaglic, guitar; Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
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10:33 a.m.
Francis Poulenc
Sextet for wind quintet & piano: II. Divertissement FP 100
Pascal Roge, piano; Patrick Gallois, flute; Maurice Bourgue, oboe; Michel Portal, clarinet
10:41 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Schwanenlied Opus 1/1 Swan Song
Isabel Lippitz, soprano; Barbara Heller, piano
10:44 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Bergeslust Op. 10/5 Lust for mountains
Isabel Lippitz, soprano; Barbara Heller, piano
10:49 a.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Tullio Serafin, conductor
10:58 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
11:00 a.m.
11:25 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in Eb major
Nash Ensemble
11:45 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE PRETEND GARDINER: Overture (LA FINTA GIARDINIERA) K 196
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Christian Baldini, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in A major Opus 2/6
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
12:00 p.m.
12:01 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Guitar (or Mandolin) Concerto in D major RV 93
Venice Baroque Orchestra Avi Avital, mandolin
12:13 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Frosoblomster, Suite No. 1 (The Flowers of Froso) op. 16
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
12:33 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in G minor in G minor (1843) H395
Anna Shelest, piano
12:53 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
LA SCALA DI SETA (The Silken Ladder): Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wasps: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Juan Arriaga
Symphony in D minor
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
1:44 p.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Marionas
Richard Savino, guitar
1:47 p.m.
Ernesto Lecuona
Andalusia Suite: Malaguena
Richard Cionco, piano
1:53 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Mercury, the Winged Messenger Opus 32
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor Opus 11
Nash Ensemble
2:26 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
2:36 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in Bb major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
2:50 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
FIDELIO Overture Opus 72
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute & Harp Concerto in C major K 299
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Susan Palma-Nidel, flute; Nancy Allen, harp
3:00 p.m.
3:29 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Notturno in G minor H337
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
3:37 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat: I. Allegro moderato in Eb major Opus 20
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Pinchas Zukerman, conductor
3:56 p.m.
Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra
4:00 p.m.
4:02 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Bagatelles Opus 47
Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
4:24 p.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: I. El Margariteno (pasillo) The Song of the Dreamer
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
4:29 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 76/5: IV. Presto in D major Opus 76/5
Aeolian String Quartet
4:36 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2: IV. Allegro con spirito in D major Opus 73
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
5:00 p.m.
5:01 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Paray, conductor
5:10 p.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 1/5
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor
5:19 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
5:41 p.m.
Arthur Foote
Suite for Strings in E major Opus 63
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Das Jahr (The Year)
Anna Shelest, piano
6:00 p.m.
6:48 p.m.
Steve Howe
Aire para un Dia (Mood for a Day)
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
6:54 p.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
The Exquisite Hour (L'Heure exquise)
Mischa Maisky, cello; Daria Hovora, piano

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