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, August 3, 2022Unlike most French composers in the late 1800s who were focused almost exclusively on opera, Camille Saint-Saëns composed a good amount of chamber music including a Piano Quartet in B-Flat major. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 2, 2022To celebrate the birthday of English composer Arthur Bliss (born on this date 1891), we have his "A Colour Symphony" with each movement named for a color and his impressions of what it represents. It's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 1, 2022The First Prize-winning Symphony No. 3 by American composer George Chadwick is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 29, 2022Beethoven is in a dark and stormy place with his Piano Sonata No. 23, “Appassionata,” today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 28, 2022Today is Conductor Riccardo Muti’s 81st birthday! Hear him conduct Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony for today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 27, 2022Claude Debussy’s only String Quartet, from 1893, shows him working toward his (r)evolutionary music of new color and relaxed form. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 26, 2022American composer John Knowles Paine developed the first University music curriculum in the United States and his Symphony #1 from 1875 was the first symphony ever composed by an American. It’s your Midday Masterpiece today at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 25, 2022Johannes Brahms's "Rain" Violin Sonata, nicknamed for using the same melodies as his "Rain Song" for voice, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm, featuring Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang.
Classical Music Playlist, July 22, 2022Take a trip to Denmark with Niels Gade's Symphony No. 1 as today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 21, 2022Your Midday Masterpiece is ballet music from an lesser-known opera by Tchaikovsky, (loosely) based on the story of Joan of Arc.