Poster YourClassical MPR Radio App Stream Tile
Curated Streams

YourClassical MPR

Where Classical Music Comes Alive

Build a deeper understanding and appreciation of classical music on YourClassical MPR. Listen to our live regional Minnesota Public Radio broadcast as our hosts take you through a classical music journey. Featuring music, commentary, interviews and more.

On Air Now
previous dayThursday
Saturdaynext day
  • 4:11 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Arthur Somervell

    Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    Anthony Marwood, violin

    32:49
  • 4:07 AM

    Xerxes: Largo

    George Frideric Handel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    3:01
  • 4:01 AM

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Erich Korngold

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    4:48
  • 3:53 AM

    Memories of the Alhambra

    Francisco Tarrega

    Reflections of Spain: Spanish Favorites for Guitar

    David Russell, guitar

    5:25
  • 3:12 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

    39:42
  • 3:06 AM

    Fantasia No. 10

    Henry Purcell

    Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of Britten and Purcell

    Emerson String Quartet

    3:37
  • 3:01 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1: Gavotte

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    4:40
  • 2:51 AM

    Three Pieces

    Arthur Foote

    Huntingdon Trio

    7:47
  • 2:14 AM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    34:40
  • 2:06 AM

    Viejo Zortzico

    Jesus Guridi

    Serenata Espanola

    Xavier de Maistre, harp

    6:21
  • 2:01 AM

    Summer in the High Grassland

    Zhao Jiping

    Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon

    Silk Road Ensemble

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    4:33
  • 1:49 AM

    Fritiof Suite: Prelude

    Elfrida Andree

    Stockholm Symphony Orchestra

    Gustaf Sjokvist, conductor

    9:02
  • 1:17 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 17

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concerto KV 453, Piano Quintet KV 452

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    31:02
  • 1:10 AM

    Steal Away

    Spiritual

    The Spirituals

    American Spiritual Ensemble

    Dr. Everett McCorvey, conductor

    5:12
  • 1:06 AM

    Minuet No. 3

    Giacomo Puccini

    Enso String Quartet

    2:41
  • 1:01 AM

    The Color Purple: Main Theme

    Quincy Jones

    Cinema Serenade

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    4:30
  • 12:50 AM

    Fantaisie

    Helene Fleury-Roy

    Pieces de Concours

    Jutta Puchhammer-Sedillot, viola

    8:56
  • 12:46 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Edward Elgar

    English Music for Strings

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    George Hurst, conductor

    12:20
  • 12:44 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. I I

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Murray Perahia, conductor

    Murray Perahia, piano

    29:05
  • 12:38 AM

    Lux Aurumque

    Eric Whitacre

    Light & Gold

    Eric Whitacre Singers

    Eric Whitacre, conductor

    4:07
  • 12:28 AM

    Goldberg Variations: Aria; Variations 1-5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Goldberg Variations, Italian Concerto

    Peter Serkin, piano

    7:08
  • 12:26 AM

    Goldberg Variations: Aria

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Goldberg Variations, Italian Concerto

    Peter Serkin, piano

    2:11
  • 12:21 AM

    Waly, Waly (The Water is Wide)

    Traditional

    Blue Wheat

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    3:17
  • 12:12 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Karajan Edition: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    Alexis Weissenberg, piano

    35:43
  • 12:07 AM

    Ol' Man River

    Jerome Kern

    Songs of Free Men

    Columbia Concert Orchestra

    Emanuel Balaban, conductor

    Paul Robeson, bass-baritone

    3:11
  • 11:59 PM

    Pines of Rome: Pines of the Appian Way

    Ottorino Respighi

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:33
  • 11:52 PM

    The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe

    Ennio Morricone

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    4:51
  • 11:40 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 8: 3rd movement

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7 & 8

    Yefim Bronfman, piano

    10:13
  • 11:27 PM

    Gotterdammerung: Siegfried's Funeral Music

    Richard Wagner

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    12:03
  • 11:13 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 3: 3rd movement

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Lalo; Saint-Saens; Ravel

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Antonio Pappano, conductor

    Maxim Vengerov, violin

    11:33
  • 11:07 PM

    Symphony No. 2: III

    Louis

    Vierne

    Eric Plutz

    :00
  • 10:48 PM

    Rebel Without A Cause: Selections

    Leonard Rosenman

    Leonard Rosenman: East of Eden; Rebel Without a Cause

    London Sinfonietta

    John Adams, conductor

    15:31
  • 10:39 PM

    Dance of the Hours

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Essential Ballet

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bruno Bartoletti, conductor

    7:33
  • 10:31 PM

    Steven Osborne, piano

    4:48
  • 10:29 PM

    Dance of the Hours

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Essential Ballet

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bruno Bartoletti, conductor

    7:33
  • 10:20 PM

    Solace (A Mexican Serenade)

    Scott Joplin

    Joplin: Complete Rags

    William Albright, piano

    6:09
  • 10:11 PM

    Nabucco: Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Dies Irae: The Essential Choral Collection

    German Opera Orchestra

    Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor

    4:55
  • 10:01 PM

    Six Studies in English Folk Song

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    An English Fantasy for Viola and Harp

    Doris Lederer, viola

    8:35
  • 9:53 PM

    The Magnificent Seven

    Elmer Bernstein

    Round-Up

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:32
  • 9:33 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 12

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, vol. 1

    Jonathan Biss, piano

    17:46
  • 9:28 PM

    Turandot: Nessun dorma

    Giacomo Puccini

    Pavarotti: Greatest Hits

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

    2:57
  • 9:10 PM

    Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in A

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

    3:36
  • 9:00 PM

    Akhnaten: Hymn to the Sun

    Philip Glass

    The King's Violins

    Jonathan Cohen, conductor

    Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor

    9:55
  • 6:52 PM

    Scherzando No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn Ensemble Berlin

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    6:08
  • 6:16 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Organ"

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    Joseph Adam, organ

    35:01
  • 6:06 PM

    Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail

    Ferde Grofe

    Copland: Billy the Kid, Rodeo; Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite

    Morton Gould Orchestra

    7:41
  • 6:01 PM

    Quintet No. 2: 1st movement

    Jean Francaix

    Mobius

    4:39
  • 5:48 PM

    Capriccio Brillant

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Sinfonia da Camera

    Ian Hobson, conductor

    Ian Hobson, piano

    10:40
  • 5:19 PM

    Symphony

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet: Symphony No. 1, Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    27:59
  • 5:13 PM

    Legends of the Fall

    James Horner

    Cinema

    Brussels Philharmonic

    Stephane Deneve, conductor

    Renaud Capucon, violin

    3:59
  • 5:06 PM

    Folk Suite No. 3

    William Grant Still

    Get on Board

    Sierra Winds

    5:51
  • 5:01 PM

    Spanish Serenade

    Joaquin Malats

    Homages: A Musical Dedication

    Christoph Denoth, guitar

    4:35
  • 4:36 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 21 "Waldstein"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

    Fazil Say, piano

    21:53
  • 4:26 PM

    Play of the Elves

    Franz Berwald

    Franz Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

    Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

    8:42
  • 4:23 PM

    Canzon No. 13

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Music of Gabrieli

    Empire Brass

    2:30
  • 4:06 PM

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Richard Strauss

    Richard Strauss: Don Juan; Burlesque; Serenade; Till Eulenspiegel

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paavo Berglund, conductor

    15:03
  • 4:01 PM

    Minuet No. 1

    Giacomo Puccini

    Orchestra of the Auvergne

    Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    4:38
  • 3:40 PM

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    18:11
  • 3:39 PM

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    18:11
  • 3:35 PM

    Three Piano Pieces: Dance

    Zara Levina

    Zara Levina: Chamber Music

    Maria Lettberg, piano

    2:46
  • 3:05 PM

    Symphony No. 20

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 3, 11, 18, 19 & 20

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    14:20
  • 3:00 PM

    Variations on La Folia

    Mauro Giuliani

    Dale Kavanagh, guitar

    4:15
  • 2:50 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Tragic Overture

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    8:42
  • 2:46 PM

    Cosi fan tutte: Non siate ritrosi

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    Christopher Maltman, baritone

    :00
  • 2:36 PM

    Alborada del Gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester)

    Maurice Ravel

    Paris Orchestra

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    8:30
  • 2:32 PM

    Suite No. 3 "Gone with the Woodwinds": Five Piece Combo

    Don Gillis

    Five Piece Combo: The Complete Suites for Wind Quintet by Don Gillis

    Madera Wind Quintet

    3:41
  • 2:32 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Tragic Overture

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    8:42
  • 2:24 PM

    Suite for Violin and Piano: Mother and Child

    William Grant Still

    Violin Lullabies / Rachel Barton Pine

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    6:19
  • 2:17 PM

    Octet: 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert Octet

    Chamber Players of Canada

    6:27
  • 2:09 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 8

    Antonin Dvorak

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    4:35
  • 2:04 PM

    Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna": 2nd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Serenata Notturna, Divertimenti

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:10
  • 1:49 PM

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    9:49
  • 1:36 PM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vltava (The Moldau)

    Bedrich Smetana

    Classics for all Seasons: Autumn

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    11:38
  • 1:31 PM

    Symphony: 3rd movement

    Alice Mary Smith

    Smith, A.M.: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Howard Shelley, conductor

    4:06
  • 1:23 PM

    Piano Concerto: 3rd movement

    Leroy Anderson

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    6:00
  • 1:17 PM

    New Vienna Landler

    Joseph Lanner

    Vienne 1850: Danses

    Ensemble Bella Musica Vienna

    Michael Dittrich, conductor

    5:34
  • 1:13 PM

    Clap Yo' Hands

    George Gershwin

    Klap Ur Handz

    Lark Quartet

    2:11
  • 1:07 PM

    Festive Overture

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Russian Overtures

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    5:37
  • 1:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 12:57 PM

    Shimmeree

    Peter Togni

    CBC Vancouver Orchestra

    Arthur Polson, conductor

    3:00
  • 12:48 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 20: 2nd mvt

    Wolfgang Mozart

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    8:00
  • 12:43 PM

    Holberg Suite: Prelude

    Edvard Grieg

    Showpieces and Encores

    Moscow Chamber Orchestra

    Constantine Orbelian, conductor

    2:43
  • 12:36 PM

    Rapsodia Cubana

    Isaac Albeniz

    Boston Cello Quartet

    5:49
  • 12:31 PM

    Trumpet Concerto: 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    4:35
  • 12:21 PM

    Scottish Fantasy: Finale

    Max Bruch

    Scottish Fantasy

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Joshua Bell, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    8:32
  • 12:15 PM

    Waltz No. 2 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    4:59
  • 12:07 PM

    Toward a New Life

    Josef Suk

    Prague Symphony Orchestra

    Petr Altrichter, conductor

    5:55
  • 12:04 PM

    Carmen: Aragonaise

    Georges Bizet

    LAGQ Latin

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    2:19
  • 11:48 AM

    South American Suite

    Brian Packham

    Highlands

    Camerata Bariloche

    Chris Norman, flute

    10:10
  • 11:40 AM

    Overture to a Comedy No. 1

    Svend Erik Tarp

    Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

    Tobias Ringborg, conductor

    6:47
  • 11:28 AM

    Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

    Grace Williams

    Grace Williams: Sea Sketches

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Groves, conductor

    10:54
  • 11:20 AM

    "Twinkle, Twinkle" Variations (Ah, vous dirai-je, maman)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 26

    Andre Previn, piano

    7:45
  • 11:17 AM

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Spiritual

    This Christmas with Imani Winds

    Imani Winds

    3:01
  • 11:10 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

    Elfrida Andree

    Stockholm Symphony Orchestra

    Gustaf Sjokvist, conductor

    5:28
  • 11:06 AM

    Our Town: Grover's Corners

    Aaron Copland

    Essential Aaron Copland: 12 Greatest Hits

    London Sinfonietta

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    2:56
  • 11:01 AM

    Red Flowers in Bloom

    Qi Liu

    Shanghai Quartet

    4:22
  • 10:41 AM

    Symphony

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini: Seven Symphonies

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    17:17
  • 10:22 AM

    Karelia Suite

    Jean Sibelius

    SIBELIUS, J.: Symphony No. 2 / Karelia Suite

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Pietari Inkinen, conductor

    17:23
  • 10:12 AM

    Ballade

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images, Etudes, etc.

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    7:56
  • 10:06 AM

    Pavane

    Gabriel Faure

    Romances for Saxophone

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Branford Marsalis, saxophone

    5:40
  • 10:01 AM

    Hopkinson Smith, lute

    4:35
  • 9:21 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Florence Price

    Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    37:15
  • 9:17 AM

    Four African Dances: No. 3

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    John Fadial, violin

    Andrew Harley, piano

    4:04
  • 9:07 AM

    Schatz Waltz (Treasure Waltz)

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Linos Ensemble

    8:47
  • 9:01 AM

    Two Aquarelles

    Frederick Delius

    Delius: Miniatures

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    4:35
  • 8:39 AM

    Suite on Russian Themes

    Max Bruch

    Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Werner Andreas Albert, conductor

    19:11
  • 8:31 AM

    Goyescas: Maiden and the Nightingale

    Enrique Granados

    Night Moods

    Carol Rosenberger, piano

    6:46
  • 8:10 AM

    Petite Symphony

    Charles Gounod

    The Chamber Winds

    Chamber Winds

    19:18
  • 8:06 AM

    David Russell, guitar

    3:53
  • 8:01 AM

    Lament

    Frank Bridge

    Finzi; Parry; Bridge

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    4:41
  • 7:39 AM

    On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein: Marin Alsop The Complete Naxos Recordings

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    19:20
  • 7:34 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    3:53
  • 7:06 AM

    Oboe Concerto

    Richard Strauss

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    26:24
  • 7:01 AM

    Modern Times: Smile

    Charlie Chaplin

    I Salonisti

    4:31
  • 6:39 AM

    Brazilian Impressions

    Ottorino Respighi

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    19:35
  • 6:17 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Le Mozart Noir

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Linda Melsted, violin

    21:08
  • 6:06 AM

    Scenes d'Enfants

    Federico Mompou

    Children's World

    Mirian Conti, piano

    9:10
  • 6:01 AM

    Julia Florida

    Agustin Barrios

    From The Jungles Of Paraguay: John Williams Plays Barrios

    John Williams, guitar

    4:29
YourClassical Radio
0:00
0:00