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, November 22, 2022The Los Romeros family of guitarists commissioned the "Concierto Andaluz for Four Guitars" from Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo in 1967 and you’ll hear them perform it for today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 21, 2022The entire Richard Strauss tone poem "Also sprach Zarathustra" with its famous opening "Sunrise" movement (as heard in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey'') is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 18, 2022The colorful and vivacious “Suite in F-sharp minor” from 1909 by Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 17, 2022Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, unique and exclusive on many levels, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm. (Click to read the fuller story!)
Classical Music Playlist, November 16, 2022Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s final String Quartet, No. 14, that he composed months after returning home to Prague after three years teaching in America, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 15, 2022For the premiere of his 7th Symphony in 1952, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a brief happy ending (that he disliked) in the hope of winning a Soviet state prize. The 7th Symphony with its original more emotional ending is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 14, 2022Beethoven set a new precedent for cello sonatas when he wrote out the full cello part that was previously a largely ad lib instrument in sonatas for keyboard and cello. Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 1 is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 11, 2022A concert suite of the music to Leonard Bernstein's 1956 operetta "Candide" (preceded by its popular Overture) is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 10, 2022Inspired by a trip to sunny Italy in 1907, Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar composed his "Serenade." It's considered one of his greatest orchestral works, and it's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 9, 2022Czech composer Bedřich Smetana titled his String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” as its four movements are autobiographical chapters of his life and loves up to age 52 when he composed the work in 1876. It's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.