New Classical Tracks: highlights from the first Tippet Rise Music Festival
The Montana arts center and music venue, Tippet Rise, has released an album of highlights from its music festival's inaugural season.
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New Classical Tracks: Yekwon Sunwoo celebrates a gold-medal performance
Yekwon Sunwoo took the Gold Medal at the 2017 International Van Cliburn competition. The first Van Cliburn winner from South Korea, Yekwon Sunwoo has released the live album of his award-winning performance.
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New Classical Tracks: Stephen Edwards' Requiem for My Mother
In a heartfelt celebration of his late mother, Stephen Edwards weaves the innocence and passion of choral and orchestral sounds into his most recent work: Requiem for My Mother.
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New Classical Tracks: Simone Dinnerstein Meets Mozart in Havana
What if Mozart went to Havana? Simone Dinnerstein decided to find out. Dinnerstein traveled to Cuba at the invitation of Solomon Mikowsky -- the result of which is a recording of works by Mozart with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra.
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Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital visits Twin Cities for concert with guitar duo
As mandolinist Avi Avital comes to the Twin Cities, here's an encore look at his latest recording, in which he dives into his Israeli roots and explores his Moroccan ancestry. He performs Wednesday night with classical guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad at Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul as part of the Schubert Club's International Artist Series.
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New Classical Tracks: Shai Wosner - Impromptu
What would happen if Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Dvorak, Gershwin and Ives got together for a posthumous jam session? Pianist Shai Wosner presents a thought provoking and highly original program of Impromptus that will challenge the listener's perceptions of these composers and and take them along for the ride as these improvisations take on a life of their own.
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New Classical Tracks: Leonard Slatkin completes another Copland
As he prepares for his 10th and final season as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin is excited to release another recording in their Copland cycle.
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New Classical Tracks: Minnesota masters Mahler
Following successful recordings of works by Beethoven and Sibelius, the on-a-roll Minnesota Orchestra made a recording of Mahler's demanding Symphony No. 5. 'If the music is good enough,' says Music Director Osmo Vanska, 'you are ready to even suffer because of that.'
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New Classical Tracks: Simple Gifts at Shaker Village
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center recorded an album at Shaker Village in Kentucky. 'It's a magical place,' says Artistic Director Wu Han. 'It's a place where people search for a renewal of spirit.'
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New Classical Tracks: Rachel Barton Pine makes her violin sing
A fan of Niccolo Pagaini since she was a child, Rachel Barton Pine released all of the Paganini Caprices on a new recording she calls, 'Bel Canto,' which means 'beautiful singing.'
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About New Classical Tracks®
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.