Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
This week on New Classical Tracks, Clara Osowski explores jazz and poetry in her genre-bending debut album, 'Haunted Blue,' which features a range of songs written for her by jazz pianist Jeremy Walker.
This week on New Classical Tracks, conductor Osmo Vanska shares insights into the Minnesota Orchestra's new recording of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.
This week on New Classical Tracks, composer Morten Lauridsen shares insights into his latest album, 'Light Eternal,' which features two world premieres alongside a number of his most popular works.
Though Bach's Six Suites are most commonly heard as works for solo cello, they have been played on a range of instruments over the years. This week on New Classical Tracks, Kim Kashkashian brings them to life on viola.
This week on New Classical Tracks, Olivia Diercks and Karla Colahan of the violin-cello duo the OK Factor share insights into their new release, 'Love, the OK Factor: Lullabies and Love Songs.'
Here on New Classical Tracks, we love sharing with you the most exciting new recordings every year. And, when you enter our weekly CD giveaways, you show us how excited you are about these recordings, too. Find out which are your 10 most coveted new releases of 2018.
This week on New Classical Tracks, English horn player Cally Banham and her band Cortango are joined by members of the St. Louis Symphony on 'Cor Christmas,' featuring festive arrangements of holiday favorites -- with a few surprises on the way.
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.
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.
