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, August 30, 2022The arctic Lapland region has never sounded so colorful as in Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger’s Symphony No. 3, today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 29, 2022A wanderer named Harold is represented by a viola as he comes across various scenes of people in Italy. “Harold In Italy” by Hector Berlioz is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 26, 2022After promising a monumental symphony that would glorify the Soviet system at the end of World War II, Dmitri Shostakovich surprised (and annoyed) Soviet officials with his light and humorous Symphony No. 9. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 25, 2022Born to Swedish immigrant parents in Wahoo, Nebraska, composer Howard Hanson pays tribute to his Scandinavian ancestry in his "Nordic" Symphony No. 1, today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 24, 2022Composed over years following Robert Schumann's public declaration of him as the next Beethoven, the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms (which he began writing at age 20) is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 23, 2022Full 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 at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 22, 2022To celebrate his birthday today, Claude Debussy’s impressionistic evocation of The Sea at different times of day and its interaction with the wind, “La Mer,” is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 19, 2022To celebrate the birthday today (August 19th, 1855) of Romanian composer George Enescu, we'll air his Symphony No. 1 from 1905 for our Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 18, 2022What for many decades after its 1930 premiere was called the finest British piano concerto, the Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major by John Ireland is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 17, 2022In the heart of the Romantic era, Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark wrote a passionate Violin Concerto in A-minor and it’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm with soloist Itzhak Perlman.