Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
This week on New Classical Tracks, Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo's Fire celebrate 'Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain' with traditional Celtic folk carols and later adaptions from the heart of Appalachia.
This week on New Classical Tracks, male vocal ensemble Chanticleer celebrates its 40th anniversary. Its latest release, 'Then and There, Here and Now,' takes a look back at the ensemble's history, and includes everything from Renaissance music to gospel and beyond.
This week on New Classical Tracks, the Danish String Quartet kicks off a 5-CD project connecting the dots from Bach to Beethoven and beyond. 'Prism I' traces the influence of a Bach fugue through Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 12.
This week on New Classical Tracks, violinist Hilary Hahn revisits the music of Bach, finding new ways of looking at favorite works that have been at the heart of her life for decades.
This week on New Classical Tracks, composer Patrick Hawes describes the inspiration behind his latest work, 'The Great War Symphony,' which received its U.S. premiere this past Veterans Day to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice.
This week on New Classical Tracks, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra showcase the nuances of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, together with a warm and light interpretation of Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 1.
This week on New Classical Tracks, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers talks about her collaborations with composers Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Morten Lauridsen and others for her latest release, 'Mirror in Mirror.'
In his new recording with Noreen Polera, cellist Amit Peled brings Brahms' cello sonatas to life on the instrument of Pablo Casals.
This week on New Classical Tracks, Rachel Barton Pine talks about her connection to the blues and shares some extraordinary music by black composers featured on her latest album, 'Blues Dialogues.'
Opera singer Nadine Sierra became the youngest winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council auditions at the age of 21. This week on New Classical Tracks, she explores the immigrant experience with her new recording, 'There's a Place for Us.'
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.
