Classical Music Playlist, June 21, 2023Following the deaths of his wife and mentor and father-in-law Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer Josef Suk composed his healing symphonic poem “A Summer’s Tale.” It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 20, 2023A new recording from pianist Benjamin Grosvenor of the passionate piano suite by Robert Schumann titled “Kreisleriana” is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 19, 2023“Simon Bore the Cross,” the 1965 cantata by Margaret Bonds with text by Langston Hughes, places a North African man as a central character in the Crucifixion story. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 16, 2023Berkeley-born composer and conductor Teddy Abrams is Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra whom he conducts, with pianist Yuja Wang, in a new recording of his own 2021 Piano Concerto for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 15, 2023A new recording from the Philadelphia Orchestra of the Rachmaninoff Symphony #3 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 14, 2023A new release of Felix Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata #2 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 13, 2023A new release of the Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and violinist Randall Goosby is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 12, 2023Florence Price won multiple awards in different categories in a 1932 music composition competition. She won top honors in two categories: for her Symphony in E-minor and Piano Sonata also in E-minor. That Sonata is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 9, 2023We celebrate the 1865 birthday today of Danish composer Carl Nielsen by concluding our weeklong tribute to him with his Symphony #5 from a new cycle of his six symphonies for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 8, 2023The Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," of five we’re sharing this week from a new cycle of the six symphonies by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
