New Classical Tracks - Making the Case for Montsalvatge
The name of composer Xavier Montsalvatge is unfamiliar to many, thanks in part to political isolation, but a new centennial CD may change that.
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New Classical Tracks - Valerie Kahler interviews Jenny Lin about Montsalvatge
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New Classical Tracks - Triple doubles
Double your pleasure with a new release from the Sarah Hicks and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
22:36
New Classical Tracks - Stories Told on Trumpet
Once upon a time, in Norway, there was a little girl with a trumpet. Today, in her early twenties, she's traveling the world as a leading performer.
4:58
New Classical Tracks - Musical Speech: The Poetry of Bach and Schubert
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein's love of Bach is a constant. And on her latest recording, she once again returns to Bach's musical world. But this time, she also chose to include music by another of her favorite composers: Franz Schubert. The music she chose to record has a beautiful and very communicative quality, and she wanted those qualities to represented by the title of the new release: Something Almost Being Said.
4:58
New Classical Tracks - Air, The Bach Album
On Anne Akiko Meyers' latest release, titled, "Air, A Bach Album," which celebrates the music of Bach, she experimented with a technique familiar to the world of popular music.
25:10
New Classical Tracks - An Evening at Versailles
The group Trio Settecento has a new disc, exploring the French Baroque -- Rameau, Couperin, and their contemporaries. The group's founder, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, relishes the intimacy and expressiveness of this music.
4:58
New Classical Tracks - Sibelius from Minnesota
Conductor Osmo Vanska has begun recording the Sibelius symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra. Though he's been intensely involved with the composer's music for years, he finds it as compelling as ever.
4:58
New Classical Tracks - Tchaikovsky, Played with Commitment
In which violinist James Ehnes talks about Tchaikovsky, working with a celebrated pianist-conductor, nerdiness, and "Magnum P. I."
4:58
New Classical Tracks - Spanish Masters, in the Past and Present
The Spanish composers Falla, Granados and Albeniz were also performers who made recordings in the era of cylinders and 78s. Thanks to new technology, we can now hear them perform in modern sound, alongside musicians of our day.
4:57
New Classical Tracks - "Must-Have" Discs of 2011
Julie Amacher and Valerie Kahler look back at the best new releases from 2011.
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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 sharing behind-the-scenes stories about a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesdays and at 9 a.m. on Saturdays.