Classical Music Playlist, July 16, 2024The passionate and powerful Symphony No. 1 from 1935 by English composer Sir William Walton is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 13, 2024The “Swan Lake Suite” of music from Tchaikovsky's ballet is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2pm. AND our Women's History Month spotlight today is on contemporary composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Listen for her music throughout the day.
Classical Music Playlist, March 12, 2024The 1897 Symphony No. 2 by Russian composer Vassily Kalinnikov is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2pm. AND our Women's History Month spotlight today is on composer, nun, mystic and saint Hildegard von Bingen. Listen for her music throughout the day.
Classical Music Playlist, March 11, 2024This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on French composer Cécile Chaminade. Her 1881 Piano Trio No. 1 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 8, 2024Today's CapRadio Women's History Month spotlight is on American composer Margaret Bonds. Her seven-movement cantata setting the text of “Credo” by W. E. B. Du Bois, his statement of racial equality, is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 7, 2024Composed during WWII when people were stressed, worried and worse, English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his Symphony No. 5 which reviews called transcendent, benedictory and consoling. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 6, 2024This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on French composer Mélanie Bonis. Her 1905 Piano Quartet No. 1 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 5, 2024This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on English composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth. Her 1890 Serenade in D is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 4, 2024This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's spotlight is on American composer Amy Beach. Her 1894 "Gaelic Symphony" is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, March 1, 2024March is Women’s History Month and we’re going to highlight a different woman in classical music every day. Clara Schumann is today’s composer and her sublime Piano Trio in g-minor is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 29, 2024Because we can only celebrate Gioachino Rossini’s ACTUAL February 29th birthday every four years, we’re going to fill the entire 2pm hour with his opera overtures, arias and an instrumental work. Rossini himself is today’s Midday Masterpiece!