Classical Music Playlist, November 21, 2024After decades of suffering performance in a heavily edited version to which he strongly objected, Tchaikovsky’s original version of his Piano Concerto No. 2 is winning appreciation in recent exposure. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 7, 2024After so many years of misery from battles with Napoleon, in 1813 a beleaguered Viennese audience welcomed Beethoven's optimistic 7th Symphony as a hopeful celebration for the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 6, 2024The product of 22 year old Franz Schubert’s happy summer spent in “inconceivably lovely” countryside with friends, his “Trout” Quintet, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 5, 2024Performed on a darker-toned and lower-pitched basset clarinet of Mozart’s time, his Clarinet Concerto in A - his final instrumental composition - is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 4, 2024Sergei Rachmaninoff's final composition, his somewhat autobiographical "Symphonic Dances" that looks back on his older works, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 1, 2024Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) composed about twenty symphonies but published only two. From pieces of scores around the world, scholars have been able to reconstruct four. The 4th of these (WoO 35 in D) is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 31, 2024A young man has nightmarish dreams including watching his own hanging; then, witches and ghouls arrive for his funeral, among other scenes. It’s all in the "Symphonie fantastique" by Hector Berlioz, today’s Halloween Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 30, 2024Today is the 80th anniversary of Aaron Copland’s ballet “Appalachian Spring.” It premiered on October 30th in 1944. The Suite in its original scoring for just 13 instruments is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 29, 2024Ernst von Dohnányi was considered the first of the great Hungarian composers. A Sextet for the creative grouping of clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello from 1935 was his final chamber composition, and it’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 28, 2024American composer John Knowles Paine developed the first University music curriculum in the United States and his Symphony No. 1 from 1875 was the first symphony ever composed by an American. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 25, 2024The Symphony #4 by Johannes Brahms premiered on this date, October 25th in 1885. Enjoy its intricate riches when we play it for today's Midday Masterpiece.
