Classical Music Playlist, August 22, 2024Claude Debussy’s only String Quartet, composed in 1893, shows him working toward what we would call his “impressionist” style (though he rejected that term). It’s today's Midday Masterpiece as we celebrate Debussy’s birthday today.
Classical Music Playlist, February 23, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Child prodigy, piano student of Mozart and Haydn and later friend of Beethoven and Schubert, the Grand Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra by Johann Hummel is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 22, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. One of the most popular concertos of the 19th century, Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 21, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. The 1946 celebration of the end of WW II, Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 19, 2022In your car, at work or at home, listen for inspiring and relaxing classical music on Capital Public Radio!
Classical Music Playlist, February 18, 2022Classical music from CapRadio! William Grant Still's Symphony #4 titled "Autochthonous" [meaning ”indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists”], his music with roots in our own soil, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 17, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! The “Porgy and Bess Symphonic Picture,” an arrangement of songs from the opera by a friend and colleague of George Gershwin five years after his death, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 16, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Ralph Vaughan Williams's serene and pastoral 5th Symphony from 1943 is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 15, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. The single-movement and dreamy Violin Concerto by Frederick Delius is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 14, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Feel the Valentine's Day love with Romeo and Juliet and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture: your Midday Masterpiece today at 2:00pm.
Classical Music Playlist, February 11, 2022Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. A student work from his Senior year at the Moscow Conservatory, the Symphony #1 by Reinhold Glière is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.