Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
Young pianist Simon Trpceski thinks Chopin's Second Piano Sonata captures the composer's personality: passion, drama, lyricism, elegance, sadness and longing for true love. Trpceski's newest CD features the sonata and other music by Chopin.
Pianist Yundi Li is only 24 years old, but the emotional content of his new recording, featuring concertos by Liszt and Chopin, radiates from a much older soul.
Since she was a child, Hilary Hahn has been intrigued by the concept of the violin as a voice. She explores that interest in her newest recording.
In 1960, Maurizio Pollini won the Sixth International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Now, at age 64, Pollini decided the time was finally right to record Chopin's nocturnes.
Maybe you've heard the old quip that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 600 times? Flutist Emmanuel Pahud proves that isn't true on a new recording with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
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.
