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, June 12, 2023Florence Price won multiple awards in different categories in a 1932 music composition competition. She won top honors in two categories: for her Symphony in E-minor and Piano Sonata also in E-minor. That Sonata is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 9, 2023We celebrate the 1865 birthday today of Danish composer Carl Nielsen by concluding our weeklong tribute to him with his Symphony #5 from a new cycle of his six symphonies for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 8, 2023The Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," of five we’re sharing this week from a new cycle of the six symphonies by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 7, 2023The Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia expansiva," of five we’re sharing this week from a new cycle of the six symphonies by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 6, 2023The Symphony No. 2 "The Four Temperaments," of five symphonies we’re sharing this week from a new cycle of the six symphonies by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 5, 2023The First symphony of five we’re sharing this week from a new cycle of the six symphonies by Danish composer Carl Nielsen is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 2, 2023From her new album, “Childhood Tales,” pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is the soloist in Ernst von Dohnányi’s orchestral “Variations on a Nursery Song” for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 1, 2023A new release of the Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 1 from 1939 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and violinist Randall Goosby is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 31, 2023The 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, May 30, 2023Written originally for Minnie “Maud” Powell, a champion of music by African-American and female composers, the Violin Concerto in G-minor by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today’s Midday Masterpiece.