Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
Everyday life for Dobrinka Tabakova is centered on the thing she loves most - composing. Though String Paths is the first full album devoted to her original compositions, she says she has always known this would be her path.
Music by Paulus, Cage, Liebermann, and others, given expression through the unique sonority of the harp.
Simone Dinnerstein is a classical pianist; Tift Merritt is a singer/songwriter who's been compared with Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris. What happens when they join forces?
Pianist Yundi Li made his name with Chopin. Now he explores another romantic master, Beethoven.
This new choral disc from The Singers serves up a collection of American melodies, in arrangements that sometimes give the old tunes an unexpected spin.
Conductor Leonard Slatkin comes back to the orchestral music of Rachmaninov, 30 years after recording it for the first time.
Carl Sagan, Philip Glass, J. S. Bach, Karl Jenkins, Yehudi Menuhin — they all played a role in shaping Daniel Hope's new disc, inspired by the ancient concept of the music of the spheres.
A new disc from a 19-year-old pianist includes standards by Rachmaninoff and Ravel, and his own music, some based on the strange dreams he had when going off to college.
Dawn Upshaw's new disc demonstrates where the conversation leads when a singer, a composer, and two poets blend their voices.
Jon Kimura Parker is trying something different with The Rite of Spring in its centennial year -- recreating this complex orchestral score at the piano.
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.
