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, September 13, 2022First a world renowned concert pianist, then Poland's Prime Minister who helped end WWI at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. From 1889, the Piano Concerto in A-minor by Jan Paderewski is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 12, 2022Celebrating Norway’s diversity, composer Gisle Kverndokk incorporated music of twelve local immigrant communities from songs about the sea, love, religion and life's rituals in his suite of “Symphonic Dances,” today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 9, 2022On hearing it premiered in 1841, Robert Schumann was dissatisfied with his Symphony No. 4 and shelved it for ten years before he revised it to his satisfaction. That 1851 version of Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 8, 2022The Symphony No. 5 by English composer Hubert Parry - which, he wrote in programmatic detail of the music, in the end finds Love triumphant over Tragedy - is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 7, 2022With its musical tribute in the final movement to Johannes Brahms who had encouraged and promoted him, the Symphony #2 in B-Flat Major by Alexander Zemlinsky is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 6, 2022Written at the invitation of the Philharmonic Society of London after his wildly successful tour of England in 1884, Antonín Dvořák returned the next year with his Symphony No. 7. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 5, 2022The first piano concerto composed and published by an American female composer, the Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor from 1899 by Amy Beach, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 2, 2022Cool off with Tchaikovsky and his Symphony #1, “Winter Daydreams,” for today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 1, 2022Hamilton Harty's "An Irish Symphony" that quotes plenty of Irish folk songs is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm
Classical Music Playlist, August 31, 2022Composed for violinist Pablo de Sarasate, Édouard Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole" is really more of a concerto for a soloist rather than a “symphony." It's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm with violinist Itzhak Perlman.