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, November 8, 2022With its jazz-era Charleston rhythm and blues nocturne wrapped in classical forms, George Gershwin’s 1925 Piano Concerto is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 7, 2022Sometimes compared to Bruckner or Mahler, the 1896 Symphony No. 3 by French composer Albéric Magnard is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 4, 2022Celebrated for over 200 years for how Mozart brilliantly weaves five different themes through the final movement, Mozart’s final symphony, No. 41, is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 3, 2022Between the drama of his “Eroica” Symphony No. 3 and the innovations of his Fifth, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 is full of spritely good humor and charm. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 2, 2022Mozart's jaunty autumnal String Quartet No. 17 - nicknamed "The Hunt" and dedicated to his friend and mentor Joseph Haydn - is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 1, 2022The lyrical symphony that Finnish composer Jean Sibelius said “always reminds me of the scent of the first snow,” his Symphony No. 6, is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 31, 2022A 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 Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 28, 2022Halloween, costumes and spooky music all evolved from ancient traditions of prayer and remembrance for departed souls across cultures and religions. A Requiem Mass is one such ritual, and Mozart’s Requiem is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 27, 2022With passages reflecting the pastoral Bohemian countryside and Czech folk dances, a recent release from the Los Angeles Philharmonic of Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 26, 2022With violin and piano as main instruments, and a String Quartet mostly as support, the 1891 “Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet” by French composer Ernest Chausson is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.