Saint Paul native Andrew Staupe has played numerous times with the Minnesota Orchestra, at Carnegie and as well as in the famed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and he's still in school! Next year, he competes in a 13-month long kind of musical Olympics. He stopped by the MPR studios to play some music and talk about his Desert Island discs with Alison Young.
Darren Korb created what he calls "acoustic frontier trip-hop" as the soundscape for the game Bastion. Hear Darren and his music on Top Score from Classical MPR.
Austin Wintory teamed up with thatgamecompany and Jenova Chen to create a terrific score for the game "Journey"
Three of the composers from Mass Effect 3 join Emily Reese for a conversation about their music on the newest episode of Top Score from Classical MPR.
Tune in on Sunday, April 22, at noon to hear this week's From the Top featuring Twin Cities ensemble Quartet Tzigane, consisting of violinist Graydon Tope, 15, from Minneapolis; violist Sloane Wesloh, 15, from Stillwater; cellist Parker Tope,13, from Minneapolis; and pianist Evren Ozel,13, from Minneapolis. They'll perform the Allegro Molto movement from William Walton's Piano Quartet in D minor.
Two of my favorite things coincide on the new episode of Top Score: composer Richard Jacques, and LittleBigPlanet.
Composer Ron Fish joins Top Score to talk about his music for Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Asylum, the God of War series and Sega Japan's Rise of Nightmares.
Mass Effect 3 comes out on March 6th, and Top Score has a preview of two new tracks, and a review of the music from the Mass Effect universe.
Host of The Legacy Music Hour podcast, Brent Weinbach, joins Top Score to talk about his passion for the 8- and 16-bit era of video game music.
Whilst most of Beethoven's famous output seems to be furious and impassioned, he has many works which are intimate and tender. This playlist offers some examples.
