Classical Music Playlist, June 8, 2026Happy Birthday Robert Schumann! He was born June 8th in 1810. His Symphony No. 1 “Spring” blooms forth this afternoon for your Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 11, 2026With its charming original melodies in the style of authentic Czech folk music and often cited as among the best in the form alongside the Piano Quintets of Brahms and Schumann, the Piano Quintet No. 2 by Antonín Dvořák is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 8, 2026The 1945 concert suite of music from Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet “The Firebird” is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 7, 2026Brahms and Tchaikovsky shared the birthdate of May 7 (seven years apart). We’re playing music by each throughout the day, with the Brahms Symphony No. 1 for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 6, 2026Innovator Beethoven opens his Piano Concerto No. 4 with a solo piano; and not even dramatically, but “softly, sweetly” (“piano, dolce”) as he noted in the score. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece with the late Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
Classical Music Playlist, May 5, 2026For Cinco de Mayo today, a guitar concerto by Mexican composer Manuel Poncé is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm. In fact the entire 2pm hour will be all Mexican composers.
Classical Music Playlist, May 4, 2026Based on themes he composed for his earlier 1930s scores to films with stars such as Errol Flynn, Bette Davis and Claude Rains, the 1945 Violin Concerto by Erich Korngold is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 1, 2026What he expressed to his father in a letter that he considered the best thing he had ever written, Mozart’s Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 30, 2026Opening with a pessimistic fanfare of inescapable fate that will drag you down, in the end turns triumphant in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 29, 2026Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic tale of “Antar” is about a warrior who is granted powers of vengeance, power and love and the most treacherous of those, love, proves his downfall. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 28, 2026Sir Stephen Hough is the soloist in the notoriously difficult Piano Concerto #3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff for today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
