Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
Improvisation, rhythm and musical dialogue reign supreme for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and three very musical friends. Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, and Stuart Duncan join Ma for "The Goat Rodeo Sessions," a new recording of music that transcends any kind of specific categorization and proves that great things happen when you make yourself live in the moment.
A new disc shows the appeal of Antonio Vivaldi's music in transcriptions old and new. Among the offerings: Bach arranging Vivaldi for four harpsichords, and a modern concerto blending baroque inflections with tango.
Whether it's a beloved standard concerto or some less-familiar repertoire, young violinist Charlie Siem always aims at bringing out the full color and energy of the music he performs.
In work after work, J. S. Bach gave wonderful solo parts to the oboe. On a new disc, those concertos are gathered together by a master soloist and musician, Heinz Holliger.
Piano dynamo Lang Lang is paying multiple tributes to Franz Liszt in this anniversary year: with a broadcast in movie theaters on Oct. 22, and with this new CD (with a companion DVD due later in the fall).
Franz Liszt wrote some formidably difficult piano music. But on her debut disc, Khatia Buniatishvili argues that his compositions offer much more than mere virtuoso display.
The guitar is a classical instrument--but it's also a jazz instrument, a bossa nova instrument, and so on. On her new disc, Sharon Isbin celebrates her instrument's many lives, with some surprising guest artists.
To play Chopin at the highest level requires years of work and deep knowledge of the music. But the goal, says young pianist Ingolf Wunder, is to make it all sound as spontaneous as possible.
This new disc features pieces by Brahms originally conceived for organ or piano--here reimagined for the lush sonorities of the Canadian Brass.
This new disc introduces a young singer from the Republic of Georgia, still in her 20s, who stepped in for an indisposed star at the last moment. Now she's singing lead roles at the world's foremost opera houses.
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.
