Explore new recordings with top performers and host Julie Amacher
This week on New Classical Tracks, pianist Andrew von Oeyen was going to celebrate the 250-year birth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, but then the pandemic. Instead he decided to use the time to revisit timeless classics on his new album, Bach — Beethoven. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of the CD!
This week on New Classical Tracks, conductor JoAnn Falletta celebrates the 150-year birth anniversary of rediscovered French composer Florent Schmitt on her new album, 'Florent Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome/Musique sur l’eau/Oriane et le Prince d’Amour/Légende.' Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of the CD!
This week on New Classical Tracks, pianist Jeni Slotchiver reflects on her experience teaching and her upbringing as native South Carolinian in her new album, American Heritage.
This week on New Classical Tracks, flutist Immanuel Davis journeys back to the early development of the flute in his new album , La Magnifique.
This week on New Classical Tracks, violist Mark Holloway of Pacifica Quartet reflects on featuring three newly commissioned works on their album, Contemporary Voices.
This week on New Classical Tracks, fiddlers Kevin Henderson and Olav Luksengård Mjelva talk about different fiddling traditions and the fun they had combining them on the Nordic Fiddlers Bloc’s new album, Bonfrost.
This week on New Classical Tracks, in celebration of Black Music Appreciation Month we revisit violist Paul Laraia of Catalyst Quartet discussing the joys and privileges of honoring composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in the ensemble's first recording in a series commemorating Black composers.
Conductor Craig Hella Johnson lets his imagination run wild with the Austin-based vocal ensemble Conspirare. He leads them and three different guitar quartets in their new album, The Singing Guitar.
Principal violist Rebecca Albers of the Minnesota Orchestra shares her love of being in the middle voice of the ensemble. She leads the viola section in the opening of the Minnesota Orchestra’s new album, Mahler 10.
Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić feels as if a fairy tale has come true in his new album, The Moon & the Forest.
Host Julie Amacher provides an in-depth exploration of a new classical music release each week.
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Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast sharing behind-the-scenes stories about a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesdays and at 9 a.m. on Saturdays.
