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 11, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. At 2:00pm today, celebrate the birthday of Richard Strauss with his entire tone poem "Also sprach Zarathustra" with its famous opening "Sunrise."
Classical Music Playlist, June 10, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. This afternoon at 2:00 pm, "Pictures at an Exhibition," a suite by Modest Mussorgsky inspired by artworks by his artist friend who died suddenly.
Classical Music Playlist, June 9, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. This afternoon at 2:00pm, the mellow and lyrical voices of the clarinet and viola join the piano for the delightful "Kegelstatt" Trio by Mozart.
Classical Music Playlist, June 8, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm, a symphony Georges Bizet wrote as a student then hid away and wasn't discovered and performed until sixty years after his death.
Classical Music Playlist, June 7, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2pm, the Horn Trio in E-flat by Johannes Brahms, scored for instruments he learned as a child: natural horn, violin and piano.
Classical Music Playlist, June 5, 2021In your car, at work or at home, listen for inspiring and relaxing classical music on Capital Public Radio!
Classical Music Playlist, June 4, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. At 2:00pm today hear the violin concerto by Samuel Barber that he was happy with but not the violinist for whom he wrote it. Click inside for more!
Classical Music Playlist, June 3, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Enjoy the bucolic and folk-themed Symphony #8 by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák at 2:00pm today.
Classical Music Playlist, June 2, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. Today at 2:00pm, hear the Symphony #4 by 19th century Danish composer Niels Gade.
Classical Music Playlist, June 1, 2021Inspiring and relaxing classical music from CapRadio on your radio, smart speaker or our mobile app. At 2:00pm, hear the Symphony #94 by Haydn, the "Surprise" symphony, named for its shock effect in the second movement.