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, December 20, 2024A new setting of the “Magnificat” by American composer Taylor Scott Davis from the 2023 album “A Choral Christmas” by the British vocal ensemble Voces8 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 19, 2024The first three parts of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio — the birth of Christ, the angel appearing to shepherds in the field, and the shepherds going to find Mary & Joseph and the baby Jesus — are today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 18, 2024Part I of Handel’s Messiah, plus the Hallelujah Chorus that ends Part II, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 17, 2024"Karolju" [“kah-ROLL-you”] from 1990 by American composer Christopher Rouse, his suite of original Christmas carols for orchestra and choir written to sound like carols from different countries, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 16, 2024It’s been 200 years since the premiere in May 1824 of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. In recognition of his birthday on this date in 1770, Beethoven's complete Symphony No. 9 will fill the entire 2pm hour and beyond for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 13, 2024The monumental “Organ” Symphony No. 3 by organist-composer Camille Saint-Saëns in a classic 1959 recording from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and their world renowned organist at the time, Berj Zamkochian, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 12, 2024Performed often during his lifetime — and at his funeral in 1931 — and now a standard in the wind quintet repertoire, the 1922 Wind Quintet by Danish composer Carl Nielsen is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 11, 2024Having described it as “dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest,” Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Requiem is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 10, 2024Kyiv, Ukraine-born composer Reinhold Glière’s bold and tuneful Symphony #2 from 1908 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 9, 2024Martha Argerich is the soloist in the iconic Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
