Our Values, Vision, & Mission

WCPE’s Values

  • We believe in developing and sustaining a community of classical music lovers by nurturing, educating, and offering the human side of music.
  • We are committed to improving people’s lives through the sharing of classical music, providing excitement, joy, information, beauty, and stress relief.
  • We believe in being consistent and accessible in the variety of classical music we play.
  • We strive to be responsive to our listeners and available to them across time and location.
  • We value live, informed, interesting announcers who strive to nurture and maintain our relationship with our listeners.
  • We strive to find the good balance between talk and music.
  • We believe that our sustaining base of support should be our listeners.

WCPE’s Vision

We envision a continuously expanding worldwide interactive community of classical music listeners. Their lives are more fulfilled and complete because of the emotional, physical, and intellectual benefits that Great Classical Music brings.

WCPE’s Mission

WCPE’s mission is to expand the community of classical music lovers by sharing accessible classical music with everyone, everywhere, at any time. We entertain, educate, and engage our audience with informative announcers, programs, and publications. We strive to make it easy to appreciate and enjoy Great Classical Music.

Now Playing

Suite from Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66

Composed by

Peter I. Tchaikovsky, arr. Andrew Litton

Performed by

Dallas Symphony/Litton

Label

Delos

Catalog Number

3196

Today's Playlist

2:55pm Music selected by the announcer

3:00pm Symphony No. 101 in D, "Clock"

Composed by

Josef Haydn (1732-1809)

Performed by

La Petite Bande/Kuijken

3:30pm Bagatelle in A minor, “Für Elise”

Composed by

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Performed by

Yuri Kim

3:35pm Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Composed by

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Performed by

Baxtresser/NY Philharmonic/Masur

3:47pm Divertimento in D, K. 136

Composed by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Performed by

Philharmonia Quartet Berlin, augmented

4:00pm Octet in E flat, Op. 20

Composed by

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Performed by

Vienna Octet

4:35pm Vysehrad from Ma Vlast (My Fatherland)

Composed by

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

Performed by

Vienna Philharmonic/Harnoncourt

4:52pm La Catedral

Composed by

Agustin Barrios (1885-1944)

Performed by

Berta Rojas

5:01pm Triple Concerto in A minor, BWV 1044

Composed by

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Performed by

Perahia/Sillito/Martin/Lindberg/ASMF

5:24pm Valse fantastique from Raymonda, Op. 57

Composed by

Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)

Performed by

Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi

5:29pm Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 97 "Rhenish"

Composed by

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Performed by

London Symphony/Gardiner

6:02pm Arabesque No. 1

Composed by

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Performed by

Gordon Fergus-Thompson

6:08pm The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (arr. Gang Chen for piano and orchestra)

Composed by

Yin Chengzong (b.1941)

Performed by

Chen/New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Kuan

6:36pm Fanfare for the Common Man

Composed by

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Performed by

Mexico City Philharmonic/Batiz

6:41pm Carillon-sortie

Composed by

Henri Mulet (1878-1967)

Performed by

John Balka

6:46pm Tragic Overture, Op. 81

Composed by

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Performed by

New York Philharmonic/Bernstein

7:01pm String Quartet in D, Op. 64 No. 5 "The Lark"

Composed by

Josef Haydn (1732-1809)

Performed by

Hagen Quartet

7:20pm Trumpet Concerto in C

Composed by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Performed by

Andre/Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra/Sandor

7:41pm Six Epigraphes Antiques

Composed by

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Performed by

Andrei Diev

8:03pm Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36

Composed by

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Performed by

Mexico City Philharmonic/Batiz

8:20pm Gaité Parisienne

Composed by

Jacques Offenbach, arr. by Manuel Rosenthal

Performed by

Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan

8:50pm Concerto No. 4 in F

Composed by

Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)

Performed by

I Musici

9:03pm La Barcarolle, a waltz

Composed by

Emile Waldteufel (1837-1915)

Performed by

Slovak State Philharmonic/Walter

9:17pm Deep River from Feel the Spirit

Composed by

Traditional, arr. John Rutter

Performed by

Marshall/Cambridge Singers/BBC Concert Orchestra/Rutter

9:23pm Pictures at an Exhibition

Composed by

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), orch. Maurice Ravel

Performed by

Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan

10:02pm Dixit Dominus, RV 595

Composed by

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Performed by

King's Consort and Choir/King

10:26pm Jazz Suite No. 2 (Suite for Promenade Orchestra)

Composed by

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Performed by

Royal Concertgebouw/Chailly

10:52pm Overture to Egmont, Op. 84

Composed by

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Performed by

German Chamber Phil. Bremen/Harding

11:02pm Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Composed by

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Performed by

Wang/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Dudamel

11:27pm Prairie Journal

Composed by

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Performed by

Saint Louis Symphony/Slatkin

11:40pm Music selected by the announcer