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, March 28, 2022Today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month are American composers Undine Smith Moore & Zenobia Powell Perry and Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki. And Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto #3 is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, March 25, 2022Today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month are American composers Sarah Kirkland Snider & Missy Mazzoli. And musical sunlight on trees in historic Roman locales brightens Ottorino Respighi's "The Pines of Rome" at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, March 24, 2022Today's featured women for Women's History Month are Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) and Canadian violinist & conductor Angèle Dubeau. And Carl Nielsen's Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable" is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, March 23, 2022Today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month are French composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) and British saxophonist Jess Gillam (b. 1998). And Mozart's 'Gran Partita" Serenade is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, March 22, 2022Today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month are American composer Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) and soprano Renée Fleming (b. 1959). And the only symphony by Paul Dukas is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, March 21, 2022Today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month are English composer Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) and Cuban-American conductor Odaline de la Martinez (b. 1949). And at 2pm, Smythe's Concerto for Violin Horn and Orchestra.
Classical Music Playlist, March 18, 2022Listen throughout the day for today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month: American composer Valerie Coleman and Mexican-American conductor Alondra de la Parra. And at 2pm, “Transfigured Night” by Arnold Schoenberg.
Classical Music Playlist, March 17, 2022Listen throughout the day for today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (born March 17, 1665 in Paris) and American pianist Simone Dinnerstein (b. 1972). And at 2pm, the Brahms Piano Quintet.
Classical Music Playlist, March 16, 2022Listen throughout the day for today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month: American composers Mary Kouyoumdjian & Jessie Montgomery, and pianist Yuja Wang. And today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm is Mozart's Symphony #39.
Classical Music Playlist, March 15, 2022Listen throughout the day for today's featured women in classical music for Women's History Month: British-American violist and composer Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) and British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason (b. 1996).