Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
For his new holiday album, Joshua Bell invites the whole gang over: Renee Fleming, Alison Kraus, Chick Corea, and the duo Igudesman and Joo, who create a madcap seasonal mashup. It's on this week's New Classical Tracks.
Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has found perfect partners in Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The youthful energy and excitement was heightened as they recorded not one, but two Russian masterpieces for piano and orchestra in a live setting, in the same concert.
Guitarist Milos Karadaglic's new album, Canción is a delicious buffet of South American flavors that celebrates the guitar as a classical instrument and as a popular instrument.
Johannes Brahms has created a special journey in these two piano concertos. As you listen, you may realize you've lost all track of time.
A new violin-piano disc serves up operatic highlights, including famous melodies by Donizetti, Tchaikovsky and Gershwin.
In his latest project, Bryn Terfel teams up with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for an album of hymns and American favorites. Plus: you can enter for a chance to win a copy of the CD.
Michelle Markarski and Keith Jarrett got together at Christmastime and played a little Bach for fun — this album is the result.
Angel Heart offers an opportunity to recapture innocence through a heartfelt story that will fill the night with music. Plus, this week, you can sign up for a chance to win a copy of this new release.
When Lily Afshar came to the United States from Iran in 1977, she had no idea it was possible to study guitar in college. Now a professor at the University of Memphis, Afshar explores the relationship between literature and the guitar in her new recording, Musica de Camera.
By presenting these early Mozart piano concertos in a string quartet setting, McDermott and the Calder Quartet offer you a chance to hear Mozart in way he sanctioned, yet is rarely recorded.
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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