Alone Together with Cantus

Join Cantus for 'Alone Together,' a special program highlighting mental-health topics including depression and anxiety. And be sure to check out their video 'You Will Be Found,' from 'Dear Evan Hansen.' This program is a collaboration with Call to Mind.


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Listen to 'Alone Together' with Cantus, including a video of 'You Will Be Found'

Meet Elizabeth Lyon, our new assistant program director! Learn about how she found her way into radio, her favorite classical composer and what she’s up to when not working the airwaves.


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Meet Elizabeth Lyon, our new assistant program director

New Classical Tracks - Miloš Karadaglić (Extended)

New Classical Tracks - Miloš Karadaglić

Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić feels as if a fairy tale has come true in his new album, The Moon & the Forest. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of the CD!


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Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić feels like a fairy tale has come true 

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. While it is difficult to represent all the diverse cultures that make up Asia and the Pacific Islands, here are six composers who have pushed the limits of composition by blending traditional sounds from their native homeland with Western classical styles.


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6 essential Asian American and Pacific Islander composers you should know

Graduation Playlist

Listen to our playlist for music to accompany your at-home graduation ceremony or celebration.


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Graduation: Let us add 'Pomp and Circumstance' and other great music to your celebration

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


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Gil Shaham finds friendship in two violin concertos

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Simone Dinnerstein makes the most out of lockdown

Hilary Hahn memorializes her time in Paris

Catalyst Quartet honors Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Benjamin Grosvenor dives into the music of Franz Liszt

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After a delay of more than a year due to COVID, the St. Olaf Band plans to premiere Darkroom, written by St. Olaf College graduate and composer Ella Harpstead, in a virtual concert on May 31.


Ella Harpstead's 'Darkroom' to be premiered by St. Olaf Band

Simon Mayr Choir; Concerto de Bassus; Franz Hauk, conductor

Johann Simon Mayr - Messa di Gloria: Kyrie

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 Johann Simon Mayr - Messa di Gloria: Kyrie.


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What do you dream about doing when the weather gets warmer, or when you hear a beautiful piece of music? Listen to the latest episode of Your Classical Kids Corner, to hear music that is perfect for imagining and daydreaming.

Classical Kids Corner - Music for Dreaming

The trombone's main difference from other brass instruments is that it has a slide. Can you imagine the right hand moving back and forth to make all the different notes?

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov : Concerto for Trombone - 1st mvt.

A lively scherzo written for the action/adventure movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

John Williams: Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra

Antonio Vivaldi: Spring from The Four Seasons

What do you dream about doing when the weather gets warm? Maybe you dream of taking a vacation  with family and friends. Tune in to the latest episode of YourClassical Adventures for music that helps you daydream.


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Episode 37 - Music for Dreaming

Due to current circumstances, Performance Today has adapted the concert content from its Young Artist in Residence Program to provide virtual learning experiences in their new series "Performance Today in the Classroom." Today's PT in the Classroom Music Lesson features PT Young Artist in Residence Cristina Cutts Dougherty.


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Performance Today in the Classroom: Cristina Cutts Dougherty 

Jennifer Higdon's Viola Concerto

Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto won the Grammy in 2018 for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Steve Seel showcases the work on this week’s show.


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Minnesota Orchestra - May 15, 2021

The Minnesota Orchestra's 2020 season is being broadcast on TPT and Classical MPR on select Fridays at 8 p.m. Listen now to full concert audio from the program that reflects on the persistent affliction of gun violence, memorializes a religious leader and plays a famously unfinished work.


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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 15 "Pastoral": Rondo

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 15 "Pastoral": Rondo

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