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Classical Highlights
Classical Music Playlist, May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013During the morning, through the day and as you drive home, enjoy inspiring and relaxing classical music on Capital Public Radio!
Overnight and Weekend Classical Music
Playlists and information about our Weekend and Overnight Music
ClassicalStream
Classical music streamed on-line 24/7 from Capital Public Radio!
Sunday Baroque
Sunday Baroque celebrates the current wealth of recorded music with great performances by yesterday's and today's best musicians. Listen Sunday morning beginning at 8 o'clock.
From the Top
Recorded before live audiences in venues across the country, this program introduces listeners to exceptional, pre-college-age classical artists. Listen Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock for From the Top!
The San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony continues a tradition that began in 1926, when it became the first symphonic ensemble in the United States heard in regular radio broadcasts. Listen Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock.
Classical Music News from NPR

Henri Dutilleux, Leading French Composer, Dies At 97
The composer, who never fit into any particular school of composition, will be remembered for a relatively small quantity of perfectly realized, richly textured works created for some of the 20th century's leading virtuosos.

An Evening With Nico Muhly, 'Two Boys' And Other Works
Watch an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined by close friends including singers Sam Amidon, Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.

Jherek Bischoff On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'
The young composer has worked with David Byrne, Caetano Veloso and Amanda Palmer. But before all that, Bischoff spent his childhood living on a tiny sailboat. Take a video tour of his old bedroom — and the place where he currently makes his beguiling blend of rock, pop and classical music.

Gods And Monsters: 5 Unforgettable Wagner Moments
For the 200 anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth, William Berger, author of Wagner Without Fear, guides us through five of his favorite Wagner moments — musical episodes that keep the composer's extraordinary dramas in our lives today.

Joshua Bell And Jeremy Denk On 'Song Travels'
Connect the dots between classical music and standards with the dynamic violin-and-piano duo.

Andris Nelsons Named Music Director Of The Boston Symphony
The announcement that the 34-year-old Latvian conductor is taking the reins of the ensemble puts an end to years of uncertainty at the storied orchestra, following James Levine's 2011 resignation.

Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
Pink Martini singer Storm Large joins Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra for Kurt Weill's satirical Seven Deadly Sins, in a program bookended by composers who straddled the turn of the last century. Slatkin says Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninov struggled with the idea of being 20th-century composers while having hearts and souls grounded in prior traditions. The orchestra performs Ravel's La valse and two lesser-known Rachmaninov works.

Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

Sound Advice - 5/2/13 Teeters
Thursday, May 2, 2013Capital Public Radio classical morning host Kent Teeters chatted with Insight host Beth Ruyak, starting with the work of "From the Top" pianist Christopher O'Riley.

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Sound Advice: Classical
Capital Public Radio music hosts and Insight's Beth Ruyak discuss and feature new and noteworthy classical recordings.







