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NPR | By Tom Huizenga

Published June 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM EDT

Updated June 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM ET

Updated June 26, 2025: Summer is officially here! And with it comes this playlist of seasonally appropriate tracks – from sunny summer days, in music by Prokofiev, William Grant Still and Max Richter, to sultry summer evenings in pieces by Barber, Delius and Kodály.

Need a deep discovery experience? Try 1,000 years of music in this playlist from NPR Classical's Tom Huizenga, which explores everything from new releases to old favorites, and classics from the dawn of the recording era. Our mantra: Bach, Beethoven, before and beyond.

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Tom Huizenga

Tom Huizenga is a producer for NPR Music. He contributes a wide range of stories about classical music to NPR's news programs and is the classical music reviewer for All Things Considered. He appears regularly on NPR Music podcasts and founded NPR's classical music blog Deceptive Cadence in 2010.