Classical Music Playlist, November 12, 2024Full of Czech folk elements and love of his homeland and its people, the Violin Concerto in A-minor by Antonín Dvořák is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 23, 2024An elegant work of late French Romanticism, the 1905 Quintet for Piano, Oboe and String Trio by Théodore Dubois is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 22, 2024Inspired by the landscape and folksongs of Ukraine where he composed the work, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 19, 2024Released today and already receiving positive reviews, a new 66-minute recording of Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony from conductor Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony 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.
