Photo collage: CPR/Brad TurnerBach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms will all be there!
Essential Classics Weekend returns this Memorial Day on CPR Classical!
Listen all weekend starting at 3 p.m. Friday for the most enduring pieces by some of history's greatest composers. We'll play music from giants like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. We'll also feature favorites from living composers like Philip Glass, Mason Bates and Caroline Shaw.
For more weekend listening options, try one of our podcasts: explore Beethoven's story and symphonies in The Beethoven 9@9, learn about the life of Mozart in the The Great Composers. And check out the Season 2 premiere of Centennial Sounds, featuring Colorado performances of music by 21st-century composers.
Friday highlights:
Copland: Rodeo
Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Saturday highlights:
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Sunday highlights:
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass
Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Vivaldi: Four Seasons: Spring
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Monday highlights include:
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Mozart: Requiem
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: "1812" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
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