Classical Music Playlist, June 17, 2026“The Spider’s Feast” by French composer Albert Roussel is a pantomime-ballet that depicts insects in a garden, with a spider in its web as the centerpiece. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 5, 2025With its third movement that became a standalone hit, the full 1937 Symphony No. 2 by Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 4, 2025Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 36 in Linz Austria in just four days when he arrived there for a visit and a concert was quickly organized while he was in town. Mozart’s “Linz” Symphony is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 3, 2025Russian composer Alexander Glazunov’s two-movement Piano Concerto No. 1 opens with an Allegro, and the second movement mimics additional traditional movements through a theme and variations in different styles. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 31, 2025A young man has nightmarish dreams including watching his own hanging; then, witches and ghouls arrive for his funeral, among other scenes. It’s all in the "Symphonie fantastique" by Hector Berlioz, today’s Halloween Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 30, 2025Why Franz Schubert never completed his 8th Symphony remains a mystery. And though a nearly completed 3rd movement scherzo in piano score also exists, the two completed movements are usually all that are performed. They're today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 29, 2025The Symphony No. 4 from 1845 by Swedish composer Franz Berwald — whose music didn’t really get any attention until after he died — is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 28, 2025The Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Major by English composer Sir Hubert Parry that won both rave reviews and descriptions as “avant-garde” (for 1880) at its premiere is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 27, 2025Nicknamed the “Rosamunde Quartet” for the theme that opens the 2nd movement which Franz Schubert borrowed from his incidental music for the play “Rosamunde,” Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 24, 2025Celebrating his 90th birthday today, American pianist and retired Cornell professor Malcolm Bilson performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 on a fortepiano of the composer’s time for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, October 23, 2025The entire Richard Strauss tone poem "Also sprach Zarathustra," with its famous opening "Sunrise" movement (as heard in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey''), is today's Midday Masterpiece.
