Classical Music Playlist, June 17, 2026“The Spider’s Feast” by French composer Albert Roussel is a pantomime-ballet that depicts insects in a garden, with a spider in its web as the centerpiece. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 11, 2026The Violin Sonata #1 by Johannes Brahms titled "Rain" adapts melodies from his earlier song that is a setting of a poem in which rain inspires nostalgic dreams of childhood. Clara Schumann found it emotionally moving. It's today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 10, 2026What Tchaikovsky considered his best composition, and his final completed work whose premiere he conducted nine days before his death, the “Pathétique” Symphony No. 6 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 9, 2026With a “ghostly” second movement that may have had its origin in ideas for a possible opera based on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 6, 2026The Symphony No. 6 by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák that made him internationally famous is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 5, 2026Haydn’s Symphony No. 96 is called the “Miracle” symphony because the story goes that no one was hurt at its premiere when a chandelier fell from the ceiling. That did happen, but actually during Haydn’s Symphony No. 102, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 4, 2026Pianists today have described Alexander Scriabin’s 1897 Piano Concerto as "like a dream" (Kiril Gerstein) and "unbelievably, insanely beautiful” (Nikolai Demidenko). It's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 3, 2026Happy birthday to Felix Mendelssohn, born on this date in 1809! We’ll celebrate with his "Scottish" Symphony No. 3 by for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, February 2, 2026William Grant Still’s landmark Symphony No. 1, which he titled the "Afro-American" Symphony, was the first symphony by an African-American composer performed by a major symphony orchestra, in 1931. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, January 30, 2026The product of 22 year old Franz Schubert’s happy summer spent in “inconceivably lovely” countryside with friends, his “Trout” Quintet, is today's Midday Masterpiece as we celebrate Schubert’s 1797 birthday today.
Classical Music Playlist, January 29, 2026Robert Schumann depicts the Rhineland landscape, folk songs and Cologne’s gothic Cathedral in his “Rhenish” Symphony No. 3 in a period instrument performance for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
