Classical Music Playlist, December 11, 2024Having described it as “dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest,” Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Requiem is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 10, 2024Kyiv, Ukraine-born composer Reinhold Glière’s bold and tuneful Symphony #2 from 1908 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 9, 2024Martha Argerich is the soloist in the iconic Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 6, 2024With passages reflecting the pastoral Bohemian countryside and Czech folk dances, Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 5, 2024Robert Schumann depicts the Rhineland landscape, folk songs and Cologne’s gothic Cathedral in his “Rhenish” Symphony No. 3. A period instrument performance of it is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 4, 2024The Piano Concerto No. 5 was one of fourteen compositions Beethoven dedicated to Archduke Rudolph, his greatest patron. Also known as the “Emperor” Concerto, it's today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 3, 2024Nicknamed for the rolling timpani that opens the work, the "Drumroll" Symphony No. 103 by Haydn is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 2, 2024As a response to the devastation of World War I that had changed everything and everyone, Danish composer Carl Nielsen imbues his Symphony No. 5 with chaos that finds its way into a new musical world redefined. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 29, 2024A suite of music from the 1841 ballet “Giselle” by Adolph Adam — that tells the tale of peasant girl Giselle’s ghost who saves the man she loved in life from a terrible fate — is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 28, 2024Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, whose 3rd movement he described as a “Holy Song of Thanksgiving,” is today's Midday Masterpiece.
