YourClassical Storytime - 'Christmas Every Day'

Can you have too many presents, too much holiday food, too much cheer? When little Noelle wishes for Christmas every day, she gets more than she bargained for in the delightful new YourClassical Storytime episode “Christmas Every Day,” featuring traditional music of the holiday season and art by Nancy Carlson.


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'Christmas Every Day'

New Classical Tracks - Emanuel Ax (Extended)

New Classical Tracks - Emanuel Ax

In this week’s New Classical Tracks, pianist Emanuel Ax teams up with longtime friend and collaborator Yo-Yo Ma to re-record Beethoven's cello sonatas for their new album, Hope Amid Tears. 


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Pianist Emanuel Ax makes music with lifelong friend Yo-Yo Ma

Candles Burning Brightly 2021

Hosted by Mindy Ratner, ‘Candles Burning Brightly’ is a one-hour celebration of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights with an exploration of holiday foods and traditional activities — and plenty of music. 


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Candles Burning Brightly

Share the joys of the music you love with young listeners through YourClassical Storytime — classic stories with a classical twist!


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Conductor John Jeter continues to celebrate the works of Florence Price

Musical siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason debut their first duo album

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ARC Ensemble honors composer Dmitri Klebanov

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Celebrate the season with song! Steve Staruch hosts this one-hour program of holiday favorites, new and old, presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man ensemble known as "an orchestra of voices."


A Chanticleer Christmas

Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: Ave maris stella

Welcome to the Choral Stream Download, a handpicked, free, downloadable piece of choral music available every week for subscribers to the Choral Stream newsletter. This week, get a free MP3 of Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: Ave maris stella.


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An in depth look at the reconstructed score Dmitiri Tiomkin wrote for "It's a Wonderful Life".

I'm Your Guardian Angel!

When Dmitri Tiomkin collaborated with Frank Capra for the final time, little did he know most of his fabulous music score would wind up on the cutting room floor.  The studio changed the release date from Spring 1947 to Christmas 1946, and the biggest casualty was Tiomkin’s score.  David Newman and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform a reconstructed extended version of what Tiomkin had in mind.



YourClassical Adventures: Episode 63 - The Human Voice

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

The King’s Singers: Horizons

Eriks Esenvalds: Only in Sleep

What makes the human voice such a unique instrument? Join host Liz Lyon, along with producer Melanie Renate, in today’s episode of YourClassical Adventures as they talk about why the human voice is so unique.


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Episode 63 - The Human Voice

Minnesota Orchestra - November 19, 2021

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Pianist Ingrid Fliter joins conductor Thomas Sondergard on Friday in a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Minnesota Orchestra. The program also includes ‘Ein Heldenleben’ (‘A Hero's Life’), by Richard Strauss, and ‘Ballade,’ by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Join host Melissa Ousley at 8 p.m. for YourClassical MPR’s live broadcast.


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Ingrid Fliter joins Minnesota Orchestra for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

Glenn Branca's Aural Epiphanies

Composer Glenn Branca’s goal was musical ecstasy through assault of the senses.


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The annual Christmas Eve service of 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols' will be broadcast this year from King's College, Cambridge. Find out more, and enter our giveaway of the King's College Choir's new Christmas recording.


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Hollywood Holiday 2021

Lynne Warfel, host of Saturday Cinema, takes you on a one-hour musical retrospective of some of Hollywood's most cherished Christmas themed movies. Including scores from "Scrooge, the Musical", "A Muppet Christmas Carol", "The Polar Express", "It's A Wonderful Life" and many more.


'Christmas Every Day'

Ferdinand Ries - Introduction et Rondeau brillant

Ferdinand Ries - Introduction et Rondeau brillant

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