The Pacifica Quartet opens the Minnesota Beethoven Festival

The Minnesota Orchestra began its season-opening celebrations with Music Director Thomas Søndergård and guest pianist Vadym Kholodenko in a program featuring music by Walker, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Listen to the concert now!

The BBC Proms concerts return to YourClassical for the 2026 season. Enjoy live performances featuring world-class ensembles, conductors and soloists from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Listen at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. on weekdays through Sept. 25 — plus on-demand audio for 30 days afterward.

On the latest episode of ‘Saturday Cinema,’ host Lynne Warfel Music shares music from films that feature sweeping stories and great costumes, including ‘Elizabeth and Essex,’ ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘Titanic’ and ‘How the West Was Won.’ Listen now!

Minnesota Winds takes the stage for an unforgettable season finale concert led by guest conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner and featuring a world premiere by Katherine Bergman. Listen to the concert now!

What is a piece of classical music that makes you feel good whenever you hear it? Share it with YourClassical MPR.

Anthony McGill is the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, the first Black musician to hold a principal chair in the orchestra’s history. He has used the platform to promote racial equity in classical music. Find out more on the ‘Rhapsody in Black’ podcast.

Pianist Alice Sara Ott recently returned to Iceland to record the music of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The resulting record features some of Jóhannsson’s orchestral works reimagined for solo piano, including some of his film scores. Listen now with host Julie Amacher.

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Artistic Partner Gábor Takács-Nagy returns for another consecutive season finale leading the orchestra in a program that touches on many of its 2025-26 season themes, including the idea of music and art as hope and light. Listen to the concert now!

‘Extra Eclectic’ continues our time at the 2026 BBC Proms Festival this week with Welsh composer Gwilym Simcock’s Triple Concerto for Saxophone, Horn and Cello performed by the soloists who premiered it: Jess Gillam, Ben Goldscheider and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Listen now with host Steve Seel!

A self-described "folkie to the bone," Giddens sings and plays banjo and fiddle in this interview. Her latest album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, takes its name from an Emily Dickinson poem.