Classical Music Playlist, July 19, 2024Released today and already receiving positive reviews, a new 66-minute recording of Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony from conductor Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, May 28, 2022In your car, at work or at home, listen for inspiring and relaxing classical music on Capital Public Radio!
Classical Music Playlist, May 27, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Written at the height of his creative powers, the Piano Trio No. 2 by Johannes Brahms is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 26, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. A “Rustic Wedding Symphony” by Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 25, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. A suite of music from Tchaikovsky's second ballet, "Sleeping Beauty" from 1890, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 24, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Based on folk songs and dances from his native Norway, Edvard Grieg’s “Symphonic Dances” are today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 23, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Robert Schumann depicts the Rhineland landscape, folk songs and Cologne’s gothic Cathedral in his “Rhenish” Symphony No. 3; today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 21, 2022In your car, at work or at home, listen for inspiring and relaxing classical music on Capital Public Radio!
Classical Music Playlist, May 20, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Innovator Beethoven opens his Piano Concerto #4 with a solo piano; and not even dramatically, but “softly, sweetly” as he noted in the score. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 19, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Antonín Dvořák found it very easy going, with “melodies coming to me in droves,” while writing his Piano Quartet #2. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, May 18, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Claude Debussy’s “Images for Orchestra” - with its three-movement sub-suite in the middle called “Ibera” that evokes Spain - is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.