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 3, 2025Aaron Copland’s 1944 ballet “Appalachian Spring” (originally scored for just 13 instruments) won him the Pulitzer Prize for Music. The condensed suite for an expanded orchestra that he compiled the following year is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 2, 2025The intentionally easily-listenable Symphony No 2 from 1930 by American composer Howard Hanson — which is also heard in the movie “Alien” and served as a model to John Williams for some of his music in the movie “E.T.” — is today's Midday Masterpiece
Classical Music Playlist, July 1, 2025In the 1780s, with new developments in the piano taking shape, Mozart composed two piano quartets that today are seen as the first major works in the form. Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 2 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 30, 2025Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian’s tuneful and passionate Violin Concerto in D-minor from 1940 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 27, 2025Listen for a musical storm about ten minutes into the Piano Concerto #5, “Fire from the Storm,” by composer John Field for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 26, 2025The Symphony No. 3 by Swedish composer Franz Berwald was never performed until 37 years after his death when musical tastes finally caught up with his forward-thinking ideas and he became posthumously celebrated. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 25, 2025Featuring old Scottish folk tunes, including one going back to the 1300s, Max Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy" is your Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 24, 2025Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s First symphony from the late 1890s may be his statement against Russian efforts to absorb Finland into its Empire, happening at the time. The Sibelius Symphony No. 1 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 23, 2025Written in 1921 from revived musical ideas discarded over the previous ten years and one of the 20th century’s most popular Concertos, the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, June 20, 2025For this first day of summer our entire 2pm hour will be filled with summer-themed music, including “Summer” from Haydn’s secular oratorio of “The Seasons” for today's Midday Masterpiece.
