Regional Spotlight™

The Miro Quartet performs the Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 from the Chamber Music Society of St Cloud recital series.

Members of the faculty of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) School of Music, pianist Tyler Wottrich and flutist Catherine Gregory, perform 'Flowing' from the Copland Sonata for Flute and Piano from a performance recorded at NDSU in Fargo, N.D., earlier this year.

Tine Thing Helseth performs the Seven Popular Spanish Songs by Manuel de Falla. Hear her performance, recorded at a recent Twin Cities recital, on this week's Regional Spotlight.

Joel Frederiksen joined Steve Staruch to talk about the early music program at the Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival in Duluth.

Charles Rosen describes the Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 as "radically simple." A performance from the Frederic Chopin Society with pianist Nikolay Khozyainov is in this week's Regional Spotlight.

David Finckel and Wu Han perform the Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 2 from the Schubert Club/Music in the Park recital series. Hear the performance on this week's Regional Spotlight.

Sometimes it's good to revisit a performance because it is so good. In this week's Regional Spotlight the Miro String Quartet perform the Beethoven Op 18 No. 2 from a Chamber Music Society of St Cloud concert given in 2006. Beethoven's second string quartet bubbles with energy and vitality in this memorable performance.

Can you really get enough Bach? The Choral Arts Ensemble in Rochester recently performed the Bach B-Minor Mass. The stunning conclusion to this powerful work is in this week's Regional Spotlight.

School Spotlight highlights outstanding Minnesota school- and student-music ensembles during the academic year. Through this feature, Classical MPR hopes to expose listeners to the great music being made by young musicians across the state, and to generate more support for music education. This week's spotlight is on the Northfield High School Concert Choir.

It's Young Virtuosi (part two) in this week's Regional Spotlight, featuring two of the finalists in the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestras Young Soloist Competition.