Classical Music Playlist, June 19, 2026With "Autochthonous" defined as ”indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists,” the “Autochthonous” Symphony No. 4 by William Grant Still that depicts the American people and our fusion of musical cultures is today's Midday Masterpiece
Classical Music Playlist, April 11, 2025Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 that he never published (in his lifetime) so he could keep it for himself to perform exclusively — and his only Concerto to have an adagio slow movement — is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 10, 2025A wanderer named Harold is represented by a viola as he comes across varying scenes in Italy. “Harold In Italy” by Hector Berlioz is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 9, 2025Before and after his role as a Polish statesman after WWI — and a winemaker along California’s central coast — Jan Paderewski was a world renowned concert pianist. Paderewski's 1889 Piano Concerto in A-minor is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 8, 2025“West Coast Pictures” of a tiny Swedish village on the western shore of a Swedish island are the subject of the Symphony No. 3 by Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 7, 2025After writing a dozen string quartets early in his career, Franz Schubert hit a creative wall and turned his efforts elsewhere. Many years later at the end of his life, he returned with a masterpiece, today's Midday Masterpiece, his Quartet No. 14.
Classical Music Playlist, April 4, 2025Coming late in life to chamber music, Tchaikovsky wrote only about a half-dozen such pieces. One of them, his masterful Piano Trio in A-minor, is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, April 3, 2025The colorful and vivacious “Suite in F-sharp minor” from 1909 by Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, April 2, 2025Stephen Hough is the soloist in the ever-popular Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, April 1, 2025The Symphony No. 1 by Czech composer Josef Suk — which he was in the middle of writing when he married composer Antonín Dvořák’s daughter — is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 31, 2025The Violin Concerto in D-minor by German composer Albert Dietrich, a close friend and biographer of Johannes Brahms, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
