Classical Music Playlist, November 14, 2024The product of a commission that buoyed the spirit of composer Béla Bartók when he was facing what would be his final illness, his final orchestral composition, his “Concerto for Orchestra,” is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 13, 2024Though he studied law and worked as a civil servant for 40 years, music was his passion. So he mostly taught himself music and became huge in Danish musical life. The Symphony No. 1 by JPE Hartmann is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 12, 2024Full 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.
Classical Music Playlist, November 11, 2024Monumental in scale and a great triumph for the composer, the Hector Berlioz “Te Deum” is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 8, 2024What Tchaikovsky considered his best composition, and his final completed work whose premiere he conducted nine days before his death, the “Pathétique” Symphony No. 6 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 7, 2024After so many years of misery from battles with Napoleon, in 1813 a beleaguered Viennese audience welcomed Beethoven's optimistic 7th Symphony as a hopeful celebration for the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 6, 2024The product of 22 year old Franz Schubert’s happy summer spent in “inconceivably lovely” countryside with friends, his “Trout” Quintet, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 5, 2024Performed on a darker-toned and lower-pitched basset clarinet of Mozart’s time, his Clarinet Concerto in A - his final instrumental composition - is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 4, 2024Sergei Rachmaninoff's final composition, his somewhat autobiographical "Symphonic Dances" that looks back on his older works, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 1, 2024Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) composed about twenty symphonies but published only two. From pieces of scores around the world, scholars have been able to reconstruct four. The 4th of these (WoO 35 in D) is today's Midday Masterpiece.
