Classical Music Playlist, June 18, 2026Composed in Fall 1784 during a period of great success and popularity in his first years in Vienna, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 31, 2025Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Petrushka” — about a puppet that comes to life in a story of love, rejection and revenge — is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 30, 2025With its sparkling scherzo and tender elegy movements, the brilliant Piano Trio No. 1 by Russian composer Anton Arensky is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 29, 2025Inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson tale of “The Little Mermaid,” and yet autobiographical about his own rejected love, “The Mermaid” by Alexander von Zemlinsky is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 28, 2025The premiere of the Symphony No. 1 by 23 year old Sergei Rachmaninoff was so poorly performed it psychologically broke him. After his death the symphony was hailed a triumph. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 25, 2025Maurice Ravel’s haunting 3-movement piano suite inspired by poetry, Gaspard de la Nuit, in an orchestrated version by the composer of the iconic “Twilight Zone” theme, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 24, 2025Having come out of retirement in 1891 to compose it, the Clarinet Quintet in b-minor by Johannes Brahms has the reflective mood of a composer in the twilight of his life. It's today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 23, 2025“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, July 22, 2025As one of Sweden’s greatest pianists, Wilhelm Stenhammar performed his own Piano Concerto No. 1 for about 15 years with great success. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 21, 2025Dedicated to the Paris-based Union of Women Teachers and Composers who also gave the premiere performance, the 1914 Symphony No. 4 by Albéric Magnard is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 18, 2025With the violin and piano as main instruments, in front of a string quartet mostly as support, the 1891 “Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet” by French composer Ernest Chausson is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
