Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
The Minnesota Orchestra, led by Osmo Vanska, have released a recording of the Kullervo Symphony, composed by Vanska's fellow countryman, Jean Sibelius. It's one of three works on a new live recording featuring all Finnish composers. Learn more about the new recording, and enter for a chance to win a copy of the CD.
Last spring, the Cypress String Quartet capped off their 20-year career by inviting a few friends and fans to join them at this legendary studio for the making of their live, farewell recording of Johannes Brahms String Sextets.
Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis celebrates the life and work of Alberto Ginastera, one of the most important and influential South American composers of the 20th century.
The story of pianist Jenny Lin's childhood was recently rolled into a new recording called 'Melody's Mostly Musical Day'.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landslide disaster in Aberfan, Wales, that claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults, composer Karl Jenkins was commissioned to create the 'Cantata Memoria.' The work is written in two parts: the first tells the story of the tragedy itself, and the second is a journey from darkness to light.
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has released 'Homages,' his fourth solo recording. Grosvenor describes it as not only tributes, but a reflection of what he's been doing in recent recitals.
Conductor Semyon Bychkov is currently on tour celebrating the music of Peter Tchaikovsky. Bychkov recently released the first in a new series of recordings entitled 'The Tchaikovsky Project.'
As far as Turkish pianist Fazil Say is concerned, this new box set of Mozart's sonatas is the most comprehensive and the most important work he's ever undertaken as a musical interpreter.
A new recording called 'Infusion,' from guitarist Jason Vieaux and accordionist Julien Labro, blurs the lines between classical, jazz, pop, and world music. Hear about the new recording and enter for a chance to win a copy of the CD.
The newest recording from British vocal ensemble Voces8 embraces the solitude and the sparseness of the season for which the album is named.
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.
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