Classical Music Playlist, December 5, 2024Robert Schumann depicts the Rhineland landscape, folk songs and Cologne’s gothic Cathedral in his “Rhenish” Symphony No. 3. A period instrument performance of it is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 18, 2024Beethoven’s first two piano concertos are numbered by the order they were published, not composed. His second-composed “Piano Concerto No. 1" - in a live 1995 recording by, then, 12 year old pianist Helen Huang - is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 17, 2024It was 307 years ago today, July 17, 1717, that Handel’s “Water Music” was first performed as entertainment for the King as he floated down the River Thames and back. All three suites of the COMPLETE “Water Music” are today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 16, 2024The passionate and powerful Symphony No. 1 from 1935 by English composer Sir William Walton is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 15, 2024Leonard Bernstein premiered his Chichester Psalms on July 15th, 1965. Composed on a commission from the Chichester Cathedral in England, the work is an uplifting prayer for peace with texts of Psalms sung in Hebrew. It's today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 12, 2024The stunning new release of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä leading the Oslo Philharmonic is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 11, 2024Irish-born pianist John Field was an influence on pianists and composers such as Schumann, Brahms and Chopin. With occasional musical embellishments like an Irish reel, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by John Field is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 10, 2024One of Edward Elgar’s final compositions, his String Quartet in E-minor whose second movement his wife Alice likened to “captured sunshine” (and was played at her funeral), is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 9, 2024The premiere of the Symphony No. 1 by 23 year old Sergei Rachmaninoff was so poorly performed it psychologically broke him. After his death the symphony was hailed a triumph. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 8, 2024The Mozart Symphony No 40 in g-minor is today’s Midday Masterpiece. It’s a new release by an orchestra and conductor who are each winning prestigious awards in Europe, the Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic and 24 year old conductor Tarmo Peltokoski.
Classical Music Playlist, July 5, 2024To celebrate today’s 100th anniversary of cellist János Starker’s birth, we’ll feature him in performances through the entire 2pm hour beginning with Robert Schumann’s only Cello Concerto fortoday's Midday Masterpiece.
