Classical Music Playlist, August 23, 2024Written the year after his “Rhapsody in Blue” and with its jazz-era Charleston rhythm and blues nocturne, George Gershwin’s 1925 Piano Concerto blends both classical and jazz. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, August 20, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Beethoven’s bold effort to balance three very different instruments against an orchestra, his Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra, is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 19, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. With its Czech folk themes and pastoral love of nature, Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony #5 is today's uplifting Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 18, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm is the 5th Symphony of Jean Sibelius that the Finnish government commissioned from him for national celebrations of his own 50th birthday in 1915.
Classical Music Playlist, August 17, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #1, from his teens, to which he made major revisions at about age 44, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 16, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Leonard Bernstein's ode to love itself, "Serenade, After Plato's Symposium," is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00pm featuring violinist Hilary Hahn.
Classical Music Playlist, August 13, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Violinist Itzhak Perlman plays Beethoven's Violin Sonata #9, the "Kreutzer Sonata," for today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 12, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. The early and masterful Piano Quartet #1 by Gabriel Fauré is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 11, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. One of Mozart's perfect achievements, his Piano Concerto #21, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 10, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Celebrate the birthday today of Russian composer Alexander Glazunov with his charming “Pastoral” Symphony #7 for your Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, August 9, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. The astonishingly inventive and mature String Octet in E-flat major by the 16 year old Felix Mendelssohn is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.