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Friday, March 13, 2026

Classical Music Playlist, March 13, 2026

 

Mélanie Bonis

Every day in March for Women’s History Month CapRadio celebrates 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 Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937).

  • Mélanie taught herself piano and, when she was 12, a professor at the Paris Conservatory persuaded her parents to allow Mélanie to study music. At age 16 César Franck gave her piano lessons and at 17 was a fellow student at the Conservatory with Claude Debussy.
  • Despite excelling in her classes, the prevailing thought was that no woman could possibly compose anything of value. So, in an attempt to conceal her femininity, she adopted the pseudonym Mel Bonis. 
  • In 1883 her family arranged that she marry a businessman 25 years her senior. For ten years Mélanie managed the family, entertained and led a bourgeois life with no pursuit of music….
  • …until ten years later when she became reacquainted with a man she knew at the Paris Conservatory who encouraged her to resume composing and introduced her to musical society.
  • She would go on to write over 300 works for solo piano, songs, religious and chamber music, and orchestral works. 

The 1905 Piano Quartet No. 1 by Mélanie Bonis is today's Midday Masterpiece.

6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Christoph Pezel
Sonata Ciacona in Bb major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:16 a.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto Andaluz for 4 guitars
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Los Romeros
6:42 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Flute Sonata in C# minor Opus 64
Maria Cecilia Munoz, flute; Tiffany Butt, piano
7:00 a.m.
7:01 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto No. 2 "a due cori" in F major HWV 333
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
7:17 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K 478
Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Yo Yo Ma, cello
7:45 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Suite orientale Opus 48
WDR Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Bastian, conductor
7:53 a.m.
John Williams
Themes from Jurassic Park
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
John Ireland
Epic March
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Pascal Roge, piano
8:35 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Les Gitanos (Valse espagnole) Opus 15 Gitanos = Spanish Roma
WDR Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Bastian, conductor
8:40 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1: IV. Finale in C minor Opus 68
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Opus 81
Emerson String Quartet Menahem Pressler, piano
9:41 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
LIBUSE: Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
9:52 a.m.
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Gentillesse Ballet No. 5 Opus 45
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet, conductor
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Coronation March Opus 65
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
10:11 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in Eb major Opus 70
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:38 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Suite for Flute, Violin, and Piano Opus 59
Michael Faust, flute; Sandrine Cantoreggi, violin; Sheila Arnold, piano
10:49 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in Bb major Opus 3/1 HWV 312
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Egmont Overture Opus 84
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
11:00 a.m.
11:08 a.m.
Santiago de Murcia
La Jota
The Harp Consort Paul O'Dette, baroque guitar; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp
11:15 a.m.
Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto
Paris Concert Society Orchestra; Georges Pretre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
11:36 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Cleopatra's Dream Opus 180 Le Songe de Cl�op�tre
WDR Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Bastian, conductor
11:45 a.m.
Carlos Baguer
Symphony No. 16 in G major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor
12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
Local Artist Feature: Kerstin Allvin, harp
Jennifer Reason, host
12:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 70 in D major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra; Adam Fischer, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Femmes de Legende: Melisande Opus 109
Anna Shelest, piano
12:46 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Serenade Opus 46
Sandrine Cantoreggi, violin; Sheila Arnold, piano
12:51 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Voices of Spring (Fruhlingsstimmen) Opus 410
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Chamber Concerto in C major RV 87
Camerata Koln
1:20 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
1:52 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
African Suite: African Dance Opus 35/4
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Piano Quartet No. 1 in Bb major Opus 69
Mozart Piano Quartet
2:25 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol Opus 34
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
2:41 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite "La Musette" in G minor
Berlin Academy of Ancient Music
2:55 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne No. 2 in Eb major Opus 9/2
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 4: III. Juba Dance in D minor
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
3:14 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Femmes de Legende: Ophelie Opus 165
WDR Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Bastian, conductor
3:20 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
3:51 p.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Bernhard Molique
Concertino for oboe in G minor
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
4:15 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Soir et Matin: I. Soir (Evening) Opus 76
Neave Trio
4:21 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in Bb major D 485
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
DIE FLEDERMAUS Overture (The Bat)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Water Goblin (Vodnik) Opus 107
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
5:00 p.m.
5:20 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique" in C minor Opus 13
Stewart Goodyear, piano
5:41 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Femmes de Legende: Salome Opus 165
WDR Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Bastian, conductor
5:46 p.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphonic Variations
Scottish National Orchestra; Andrew Penny, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Local Artist Feature: Kerstin Allvin, harp
Jennifer Reason, host
6:25 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major Opus 92
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor Andras Schiff, piano
6:41 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Rhapsodie No. 1 for clarinet
Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor Franklin Cohen, clarinet
Amazon
6:50 p.m.
Gerald Finzi
Prelude for Strings Opus 25
London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, conductor
6:55 p.m.
Uuno Klami
Nocturne - Song of the Watch
Turku Philharmonic; Jorma Panula, conductor

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