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, June 25, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm is Beethoven's only Violin Concerto featuring soloist Rachel Barton Pine.
Classical Music Playlist, June 24, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Enjoy Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto #1 in e-minor today at 2:00pm.
Classical Music Playlist, June 23, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm, "Harold In Italy" by Hector Berlioz, something of a musical souvenir of his own extended stay in Italy.
Classical Music Playlist, June 22, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Tune in at 2:00 pm today for the Symphony #7 by Jean Sibelius.
Classical Music Playlist, June 21, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm, hear the entire "Great C Major" Symphony #9 by Franz Schubert.
Classical Music Playlist, June 18, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm, the Symphony #2 "Song of a New Race" by William Grant Still from 1937, envisioning an integrated society.
Classical Music Playlist, June 17, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm, the transcendent and reassuring Symphony #5 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Classical Music Playlist, June 16, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! Today at 2:00pm, hear the Symphony #1 "Afro-American" by William Grant Still, the first symphony by an African-American composer performed by a major symphony orchestra (1935; NY Philharmonic).
Classical Music Playlist, June 15, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm hear the Symphony #1 of 23 year old Sergei Rachmaninoff whose premiere was so poorly performed it psychologically broke him.
Classical Music Playlist, June 14, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio! At 2:00 pm today hear the Guitar Concerto #1 from 1939 by Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco with its melancholic 2nd movement ode to Tuscany written just before he fled pre-war Europe.