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, October 11, 2022A short intrusion of so-called “Turkish” music in the final movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 is what gave it its nickname, the “Turkish” Concerto. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm with soloist Rachel Barton Pine on her birthday!
Classical Music Playlist, October 10, 2022The renowned life and prolific compositions of Reynaldo Hahn fell into obscurity after his death in 1947. His 1921 Piano Quintet is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 7, 2022Written in America the year after he premiered his "New World Symphony," the Cello Concerto in B-minor by Antonín Dvořák is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm with soloist Yo Yo Ma in celebration of his 67th birthday today.
Classical Music Playlist, October 6, 2022Beethoven’s first two piano concertos are numbered by the order of their publishing, not composition. His second-composed “Piano Concerto No. 1” is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 5, 2022The most enduring, melodic and passionate of all the Violin Concertos by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, his Violin Concerto No. 3, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm with soloist Gil Shaham.
Classical Music Playlist, October 4, 2022Dmitri Shostakovich wrote much of his anxiety and conflict-filled music while under scrutiny of Soviet authorities. But he turns lighthearted with his Piano Concerto No. 2 that he wrote for his son to perform. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece at 2 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, October 3, 2022Aram Khachaturian’s tuneful and passionate Violin Concerto in D-minor is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 30, 2022Listen today at 2:00pm for Haydn's Symphony No. 45, the “Farewell” symphony.
Classical Music Playlist, September 29, 2022Aaron Copland’s 1944 ballet “Appalachian Spring” won him the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Listen for the slightly shorter Suite he compiled the following year today at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, September 28, 2022When a chandelier fell from the ceiling with no one injured during the premiere of a Haydn symphony in London, the Symphony #96 picked up the nickname the "Miracle" symphony. Except it happened during Haydn's Symphony #102. Hear IT today at 2:00 pm.