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, July 20, 2022Modeled on Beethoven's Septet from 24 years earlier, Franz Schubert's Octet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, two violins, viola, cello, and double bass is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 19, 2022Robert Schumann’s masterful piano “Fantasie,” begun as a testament to his love for Clara Schumann and completed as a tribute to Beethoven, is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 18, 2022Written in 1921 from revived musical ideas discarded over the previous ten years, the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 15, 2022Prepare for this weekend's episode of "Connections" that looks at the stories behind, and links between, Beethoven's 5th and 6th Symphonies by listening to the entire 6th, the "Pastoral" Symphony, today at 2:00 pm for our Midday Masterpiece.
Classical Music Playlist, July 14, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. It's Bastille Day in France so we're celebrating with music of George Gershwin today at 2:00 pm! (Click into this playlist for the story.)
Classical Music Playlist, July 13, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! A commission from flutist Sir James Galway, the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by American composer Lowell Liebermann (born 1961) is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 12, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. A most popular work by English composer Gerald Finzi, his 1949 Clarinet Concerto, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 11, 2022Inspiring classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. If there was a Jimi Hendrix of the violin in the early 1800s it was Niccolò Paganini. His Violin Concerto No. 1 is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 8, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Among the many beloved compositions he wrote in America, the “American String Quartet” by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, July 7, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Celebrate today's birthday of composer Gustav Mahler with the over half-hour first movement of his Symphony No. 3 for today's Midday Master at 2:00 pm.