Classical Music Playlist, September 13, 2023One of his few popular compositions in the west, the 1934 Symphony No. 2 by Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 12, 2023Robert and Clara Schumann were born on this date in 1840. We’ll feature his Piano Concerto in A-minor followed by her Piano Trio in G-minor as today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 11, 2023Today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2pm on this anniversary of 9/11 is the sorrowful Piano Trio in A-minor by Tchaikovsky. Appropriately beautiful music of remembrance. One of his very few pieces of chamber music.
Classical Music Playlist, September 8, 2023In 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 No. 3 by Bartók is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 7, 2023With passages reminiscent of German composers he admired, and Spanish rhythms that appealed to his own Spanish ancestry, Édouard Lalo’s virtuosic Cello Concerto in d-minor is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 6, 2023With one of the most familiar pieces of music ever written as its third movement, the String Quintet in E by Luigi Boccherini is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 5, 2023What the conductor for the London premiere in 1908 called “the greatest symphony of modern times, written by the greatest modern composer,” Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 1, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 4, 2023Drama, sparkle, romance and pageantry fill Alexander Glazunov’s Symphony No. 5, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, September 1, 2023Antonín Dvořák’s brooding, epic and sublime Piano Trio No. 3 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 31, 2023Commissioned by the Finnish government for celebrations of his 50th birthday, the Symphony No. 5 by Jean Sibelius is today's Midday Masterpiece.
