Classical Music Playlist, July 17, 2024It was 307 years ago today, July 17, 1717, that Handel’s “Water Music” was first performed as entertainment for the King as he floated down the River Thames and back. All three suites of the COMPLETE “Water Music” are today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 23, 2023In your car, at work or at home, listen for inspiring and relaxing classical music on Capital Public Radio!
Classical Music Playlist, November 22, 2023November 22nd (1902) was Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo’s birthday and to mark the day we’ll have his “Concierto Madrigal” for two guitarists for today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 21, 2023The 1904 Concertpiece for Cello and Orchestra by Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher Ernst von Dohnányi is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 20, 2023With its musical tribute in the final movement to Johannes Brahms who had encouraged and promoted him, the Symphony #2 in B-Flat Major by Alexander Zemlinsky is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 17, 2023Johannes Brahms’s crowning achievement, his Symphony No. 4, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 16, 2023Niels Gade was the most prominent Danish composer of his day. His only Violin Concerto, from 1880, is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, November 15, 2023What starts out as a pessimistic fanfare of inescapable fate that will drag you down, turns around and ends triumphantly in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 14, 2023Composed in the early 1800s when the piano was the hot new instrument, Bohemian pianist-composer Ignaz Moscheles wrote his Piano Concerto No. 3 with both Mozartian classicism and modern originality. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 13, 2023The culmination of his related 2nd and 3rd symphonies, the entire Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, November 10, 2023American composer John Knowles Paine developed the first University music curriculum in the United States and his Symphony No. 1 from 1875 was the first symphony ever composed by an American. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.