Classical Music Playlist, November 22, 2024The culmination of his related 2nd and 3rd symphonies, the entire Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 16, 2024One lazy afternoon, Edward Elgar improvised a new melody on the piano then, on his wife’s urging, turned it into one of his most famous compositions. Elgar’s "Enigma Variations" are today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 15, 2024In 1945 the dying Béla Bartók composed one last piano concerto for his wife to perform in concerts to support herself after he was gone. That Piano Concerto #3 by Bartók is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 14, 2024“It transports us into a world where we cannot recall ever having been before.” That’s what Robert Schumann said of the Symphony No. 9 by Franz Schubert, also known as the “Great C-major” symphony. It's today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 13, 2024In celebration of today’s 1655 birthday of Johann Christoph Denner, the man credited with inventing the clarinet, we’ll play the Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 12, 2024The Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Major by English composer Sir Hubert Parry that won both rave reviews and descriptions as “avant-garde” at its 1880 premiere is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 9, 2024Celtic influences colored much of the early music of English composer Arnold Bax. Later, Nordic moods inspired him, and both intermingle in his 1932 Symphony No. 5, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 8, 2024Written with opportunities for the soloist to show off their skillful technique and poetic lyricism, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 7, 2024Leader and mentor to a group of young composers that he directed to create a distinctly Russian national music, the Symphony No. 1 by Mily Balakirev is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 6, 2024A symphony’s worth of musical ideas are condensed into the single movement Symphony No. 7 by Jean Sibelius, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 5, 2024Robert Schumann’s only Violin Concerto, written just before his permanent admission to a sanitarium in 1854 and the manuscript kept from the public for over 80 years until 1937, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
