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, January 1, 2026Full of mystery, reverence and awe, Anton Bruckner’s massive (62-minute!) Symphony No. 9 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 31, 2025Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony with the complete (56 minute) Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 30, 2025Reflecting the idyllic isolation of his island retirement home, and past social isolation from musical life in Sweden, the Symphony No. 5, titled “Solitudo,” by Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 29, 2025After a nearly 60 year existence only in a version with extensive unauthorized changes, the original Max Bruch Concerto for Two Pianos is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 26, 2025Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13, whose revised final movement is the last music he ever composed - and one of his “Late” String Quartets that are considered among the greatest musical works ever created - is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, December 25, 2025Today’s Midday Masterpiece is “A Ceremony of Carols” by English composer Benjamin Britten from 1942: a cantata for treble voices and harp based on medieval texts telling the story of the birth of Christ.
Classical Music Playlist, December 24, 2025"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 23, 2025The 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 22, 2025We’ve got a very sweet holiday treat for you today: the ENTIRE ballet of “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky. Join Clara on her adventure to the Kingdom of Sweets for today’s Midday Masterpiece starting at 2pm to about 3:25pm.
Classical Music Playlist, December 19, 2025Part I of Handel’s Messiah (plus the Hallelujah Chorus that ends Part II) is today's Midday Masterpiece.
