The Spirit of Summer: Classical music for the brightest of seasons
Keep the spirit of summer alive with a playlist of beautiful and uplifting classical music.
Keep the spirit of summer alive with a playlist of beautiful and uplifting classical music.
Let your emotions out with a playlist of sad but sweet classical music by Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and more.
The Voces8 Scholars record Shruthi Rajasekar's ‘Sat on the Shore’ in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio at the Kling Public Media Center in St. Paul.
Join ‘Pipedreams’ host Michael Barone for a pipe organ concert to celebrate the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, broadcast live from the Cathedral of St. Mark. Performers include Samuel Holmberg, Emily Roth and Sarah Palmer, organ; Yura Jung, piano and Charles Asch, cello.
Composer Connor Chee explains the making of ‘Unbroken: Music for the Navajo Code Talkers,’ a new work commissioned by YourClassical Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media.
Listen as Known MPLS Choir performs ‘Up Above My Head,’ made famous by Kirk Franklin and written by Myron Butler, at the 2022 Minnesota State Fair. Enjoy!
Celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday when we commemorate the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, with The Aeolians’ performance of Joel Thompson's ‘Hold Fast to Dreams,’ a captivating work that combines two Langston Hughes poems, ‘Harlem’ and ‘Dreams.’
The St. Michael-Albertville High School Concert Choir had the honor of giving the Midwest premiere of Eric Whitacre's “The Sacred Veil,” a collaboration with Charles Silvestri. Inspired by the death of Silvestri’s wife, Julie, of ovarian cancer at 36, “the intimate, compelling score tells a story of courtship, love, loss and the search for solace,” Whitacre says.
“From Sea to Shining Sea” soars in a one-of-a-kind performance by the Aeolians of Oakwood University and about 750 Minnesota choir students performing as the STMA Festival Chorus, recorded by YourClassical MPR in St. Michael, Minnesota.
The incomparable Aeolians of Alabama's Oakwood University, under the direction of Jason Max Ferdinand, perform William Dawson's ‘Zion's Walls’ at St. Michael-Albertville High School on March 2, 2022.