Throughout the month of December, homegrown music for the holidays will be featured in the Regional Spotlight. This week's feature includes a work from the Jewish tradition appropriate for the last full day of Chanukah.
Founded in Boston, Mass., Artaria String Quartet has been based in Minnesota since 2001. Last week, the Saint Paul-based ensemble visited schools in North Saint Paul, Minn., in Lakeville, Minn., and in Minneapolis.
The snowflakes are flying, the cold air's here to stay. Let's embrace the winter and revel in some new recordings of familiar and unfamiliar works.
This week, the Jasper String Quartet perform the Haydn string quartet in D, Op 76, No. 5, in an Oct. 12 recording from the Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud series.
Benjamin Britten was born Nov. 22, 1913. This week on Morning Glories, we'll celebrate the centennial of his birth with five works written by the influential British composer for some of his greatest muses.
In the Regional Spotlight this week is a frenzied and wide-eyed performance of a Sonata by Dario Castello by members of the Bach Society of Minnesota, harpsichordist Paul Boehnke and baroque violinist Jin Kim.
Imogen Cooper's performance of the Sonata in A Major from a Frederic Chopin Society concert on Oct. 6, 2013, is in this week's Regional Spotlight.
Flutist Paula Gudmunson and pianist Tracy Lipke-Perry perform Amancio Alcorta's Gran Fantasia in a recital at the University of Minnesota-Duluth's Weber Concert Hall.
The applause (complete with hoots and whistles) says it all. Composer Ted Unseth's Concertino in 3 Movements is a winning piece.
Not all classical music is weighty or solemn. Some of it is designed to provide diversion — and we'll offer five pieces that make that claim, right in their titles, on Morning Glories all week long.
