Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, violinist Rachel Barton Pine celebrates the 25th anniversary of her pioneering recording celebrating Black composers, ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.’
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, horn player Sarah Willis returns to Cuba to record the second volume of her three-part series ‘Mozart y Cuba,’ alongside the Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win the CD!
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson reflects on his musical inspirations by paying homage to his heroes on his latest double album, ‘From Afar.’
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason expresses his artistic freedom as an arranger, improviser and composer, on his latest solo recording, Song.
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, the Knights, conducted by Eric Jacobsen, explore Leo Tolstoy’s reaction to Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ with fantastic music on its latest album, ‘The Kreutzer Project.’
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, the members of string trio Time for Three talk about their new recording, which features concertos by two Pulitzer Prize-winning composers. Watch as one of them, Kevin Puts, performs with the ensemble in two exclusive videos for YourClassical MPR.
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, cellist Clair Bryant talks about her work with incarcerated musicians who gave her the courage to release her debut album, ‘Whole Heart.’
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, pianist Orli Shaham continues her project of recording all of Mozart’s piano sonatas with her latest album, ‘Mozart: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 & 3.’
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, conductor Avlana Eisenberg and Celeste Headlee, granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, talk about a new album that boasts 13 world premieres of Still's music.
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, double bassist Julius Darvas of the Janoska Ensemble talks about performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and others in the group’s latest album, ‘The Big B’s.’
Host Julie Amacher provides an in-depth exploration of a new classical music release each week.
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Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:15 p.m. Fridays.
