New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
By Minnesota Public Radio
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Podcast Description
Minnesota Public Radio's Julie Amacher hosts this look at the newest classical music CD releases.
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New Classical Tracks - Michala Petri | Numerous composers have been inspired to write works specifically for Michala Petri and her very simple instrument, creating a wonderful legacy for the recorder. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - The Jazzy, Challenging, Elegant Gershwin | JoAnn Falletta focuses on George Gershwin in her latest disc. She talks about the myriad qualities she finds in his music. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Music of the Spheres | Baroque meets multimedia in "The Galileo Project," from Tafelmusik. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Unchartered Waters | This new recording titled, "Unchartered Waters," features music that crosses boundaries, both musically, and demographically. In fact Alison Melville says she was tickled when a friend wanted to purchase an additional copy recently after loaning her copy to her son, "I loaned it to my son who is 14," she told Melville, "and he really liked it. And then he loaned it to a friend of his and I have never seen it since." | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Fantasia | Yuja Wang has just made her fourth solo recording, "Fantasia," and you could say that night life is actually one of the themes of the album. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Water Night | Eric Whitacre is a choir geek and he's so proud of it he's created tee shirts that you can purchase on his web site that read "Choir geeks of the world unite!" | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dreaming of Trumpet | From an early age, Alison Balsom has been captivated by the trumpet: its look, its sound, its master performers, and its many-sided personality. Her new disc, which celebrates the modern trumpet, includes a new concerto written for her. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harp, Not Harpsichord, in Bach's Sonatas | A new Bach disc combines violin with an instrument that Bach himself rarely used -- the harp. Its gradations of loud and soft add a new dimension to the performance of these pieces. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - An Influential Young Pianist | Benjamin Grosvenor is making a big splash nowadays, in his native England and internationally. He's just 19, but a lot of mature thought has gone into his new disc of virtuoso piano music. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Brass Attack | The Canadian Brass has been generating buzz about the brass quintet for more than 40 years. In concert, they're known for their outstanding musicianship and their wacky theatrics. On their new CD, "Takes Flight," you'll get a taste of those unique stage antics, and a full sense of what they've accomplished so far, as well as what's in store as they launch into their next era, with new faces and, as always, fresh repertoire. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Making the Case for Montsalvatge | The name of composer Xavier Montsalvatge is unfamiliar to many, thanks in part to political isolation, but a new centennial CD may change that. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Triple doubles | Double your pleasure with a new release from the Sarah Hicks and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - A Scottish Take on the Italian Baroque | You might be wondering why Nicola Benedetti has a Scottish accent if her parents were both born in Italy. They moved to Scotland when Nicola was just a child, so she grew up with one foot in both cultures. Her latest recording, titled "Italia," allows her to celebrate both aspects of her heritage, by playing Italian music with a Scottish orchestra. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Stories Told on Trumpet | Once upon a time, in Norway, there was a little girl with a trumpet. Today, in her early twenties, she's traveling the world as a leading performer. | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Musical Speech: The Poetry of Bach and Schubert | Pianist Simone Dinnerstein's love of Bach is a constant. And on her latest recording, she once again returns to Bach's musical world. But this time, she also chose to include music by another of her favorite composers: Franz Schubert. The music she chose to record has a beautiful and very communicative quality, and she wanted those qualities to represented by the title of the new release: Something Almost Being Said. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Air, The Bach Album | On Anne Akiko Meyers' latest release, titled, "Air, A Bach Album," which celebrates the music of Bach, she experimented with a technique familiar to the world of popular music. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - An Evening at Versailles | The group Trio Settecento has a new disc, exploring the French Baroque - Rameau, Couperin, and their contemporaries. The group's founder, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, relishes the intimacy and expressiveness of this music. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Sibelius from Minnesota | Conductor Osmo Vanska has begun recording the Sibelius symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra. Though he's been intensely involved with the composer's music for years, he finds it as compelling as ever. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Tchaikovsky, Played with Commitment | In which violinist James Ehnes talks about Tchaikovsky, working with a celebrated pianist-conductor, nerdiness, and "Magnum P. I." | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Is Ravel's Violin Sonata like a Croissandwich? | On a new disc, Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk share their insights into French music for violin and piano, from the days of Impressionism, to the Jazz Age. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Spanish Masters, in the Past and Present | The Spanish composers Falla, Granados and Albeniz were also performers who made recordings in the era of cylinders and 78s. Thanks to new technology, we can now hear them perform in modern sound, alongside musicians of our day. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - "Must-Have" Discs of 2011 | Julie Amacher and Valerie Kahler look back at the best new releases from 2011. | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Colors of Christmas | John Rutter: his name is synonymous with Christmas. Every year, his recordings appear on the radio and choirs around the world sing his arrangements and original carols. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - A Fiddler's Christmas | Fiddler Mark O'Connor is a musician and a composer who has been stretching the boundaries of music for years. And with this new recording, he does it yet again: traditional holiday favorites re-worked in his signature Americana style. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Classical Tracks - Grand Piano Christmas | Why should choirs have all the fun? Jeffrey Biegel's new disc celebrates Christmas at the piano. He serves up a bit of everything—carols, classical repertoire, and some arrangements that combine the two. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
fine musical sounds, nicely informative -- excellent*^!
great music very well presented with interesting explanations and historical setting information, also artists' commentary/responses. so many appealing temptations to hear and hope to add to my library--when I can't tweak the budget any more, I'll hit the public library with new requests ...
Phenomenal and human
Julie Amacher and her cohorts achieve something amazing in this podcast: a reunion of the general populace and the fine arts, and a gentle setting aside of the past hundred years of American segregation of classical music. It is a superlative example of people who love classical music for what it is -- and not as a vitamin, a tonic, or self-help. Lightly held, lovingly described, wonderfully conversational in tone. Cheers!
Terrific reviews of new classical releases
I enjoy Julie Amacher's reviews of new classical releases. She provides background for the music or performer, and an explanation of why this particular release is interesting or exciting. She also plays samples of the music. I have purchased several of the albums she has reviewed. I only wish iTunes would carry all of the new classical music she reviews. The latest release by Ensemble Caprice with the Vivaldi Gloria!, for example, is missing from the iTunes store.
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