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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Classical Music Playlist, March 17, 2026

 

Composer Ina Boyle (1889-1967) | [old b&w photo enhanced by AI]

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 St Patrick’s Day classical spotlight is on Irish composer Ina Boyle with her 1935 Violin Concerto for today’s Midday Masterpiece.

  • Ina Boyle was born into a musical family and lived in the family home for her entire life, which both inspired her music and contributed to her professional isolation.
  • She gained international recognition in 1919 when her orchestral rhapsody, The Magic Harp, won a prestigious Carnegie Trust Award. It remained one of her few published works during her life. 
  • Despite her relative isolation, she composed across almost every genre, including three symphonies, several operas, ballets, and over 100 songs.
  • Her style is often described as pastoral, lyrical, and evocative, frequently drawing inspiration from the Irish landscape
  • Because she was a woman living in rural Ireland and lacked a major publisher, the vast majority of her orchestral works were never performed or recorded during her lifetime.  But in recent years there has been a significant effort to record and perform her manuscripts.
6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Chamber Concerto in D major RV 94
Camerata Koln
6:12 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
St. Anthony Variations in Bb major Opus 56
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
6:31 a.m.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Alceste Suite
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
6:53 a.m.
Charles Stanford
Four Irish Dances: A Reel
Piers Lane, piano
6:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
My Home Overture Opus 62
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
7:00 a.m.
7:09 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Ivan Moravec, piano
7:37 a.m.
Charles Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 1 in D minor Opus 78
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
7:52 a.m.
Turlough O'Carolan
Loftus Jones
Ensemble Galilei
7:55 a.m.
Turlough O'Carolan
Miss Noble
Ensemble Galilei
7:58 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
In Ireland
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Colin Fleming, flute; Denise Kelly, harp
8:00 a.m.
8:08 a.m.
Ina Boyle
The Magic Harp
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Ronald Corp, conductor
8:19 a.m.
John Field
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major
New Irish Chamber Orchestra; Janos Furst, conductor John O'Conor, piano
8:41 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 39 in G minor
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in Bb major Opus 130
Takacs Quartet
9:45 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Danzas Paraguayas
David Russell, guitar
9:51 a.m.
Malcolm Arnold
Four Irish Dances Opus 126
Philharmonia Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
10:15 a.m.
John Williams
STAR WARS - ATTACK OF THE CLONES: Across the Stars (Love Theme)
London Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
10:22 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jenamy" in Eb major K 271 "Jeunehomme"
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
10:54 a.m.
Gabriel Olafs
Fantasia for cello and orchestra
Reykjavik Orchestra; Viktor Orri Arnason, conductor Steiney Sigur�ardottir, cello; Gabriel Olafs, piano
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
Irish Symphony
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
11:35 a.m.
Ina Boyle
String Quartet in E minor
Piatti Quartet
11:56 a.m.
Francois Couperin
The Bells of Cythera (Le Carillon de Cithere)
Assad Brothers Sergio Assad, guitar; Odair Assad, guitar
12:00 p.m.
12:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in Bb major Opus 3/2 HWV 313
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
12:14 p.m.
John Field
Nocturne No. 1 in Eb major H 24
Alice Sara Ott, piano
12:17 p.m.
John Field
Nocturne No. 6 in F major H 40
Alice Sara Ott, piano
12:23 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 4 in A minor Opus 141
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posey
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Henri-Joseph Rigel
Symphony No. 10 in D minor
Concerto Koln
1:00 p.m.
1:15 p.m.
Ignaz Moscheles
Recollections of Ireland Opus 69
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Howard Shelley, conductor Howard Shelley, piano
1:31 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Czech Suite Opus 39
Prague Philharmonia; Jakub Hrusa, conductor
1:56 p.m.
Isaac Alderson
Waltz No. 1
Ensemble Galilei
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Ina Boyle
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Esther Abrami, violin
2:18 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Symphony No. 3 "Irish" in F minor
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
3:00 p.m.
3:01 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
3:12 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in F minor Opus 73
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
3:34 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
The Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Nicola Benedetti, violin; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
3:39 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
John Field Suite
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
John Field
Piano Concerto No. 2 in Ab major
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O'Conor, piano
4:33 p.m.
Turlough O�Carolan/TRADITIONAL/Isaac Alderson
Planxty Hewlett/The Dusty Miller/The Last Minute
Ensemble Galilei
4:40 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
4:51 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Poetic Tone Pictures: VII. Furiant Opus 85
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:53 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Raymond Warren
Wexford Bells (Suite on Old Irish Tunes for orchestra)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gavin Sutherland, conductor
5:00 p.m.
5:12 p.m.
Ina Boyle
Phantasy for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (THESS-sal-loh-NEE-kee); Daniel Geiss, conductor Daniel Hope, violin
5:20 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22 in Eb major K 482
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
5:55 p.m.
Armas Jarnefelt
Praeludium
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Franz Berwald
Symphony No. 2 "Sinfonie capricieuse" in D major
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:27 p.m.
Liz Knowles/Elizabeth Moore
Treehouse/Jig for John #2/Fore Street
Palaver Strings
6:39 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
6:50 p.m.
Nils Frahm
Hammers
Scoring Berlin; Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor Mari Samuelsen, violin
6:54 p.m.
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Look Away
Joshua Bell, violin; Chris Thile, mandolin; Edgar Meyer, bass

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