Classical Music Features

• Love Notes: Send a Valentine from Classical MPR
  In celebration of Valentine's Day, hosts from Classical Minnesota Public Radio have selected their favorite love songs. Send one of these songs to your loved one with a Love Note.February 6, 2012
• Interview with Luther Warren, Violin Soloist with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies
  Luther Warren is a most serious violinist. At 16 he was the recent winner of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies Solo Competition. He will perform the opening movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto this Sunday, February 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Orchestra Hall. Warren spoke with Steve Staruch in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio to talk about his performing experiences and play the piece. He was joined by accompanist Tom Bartsch.February 10, 2012
• Regional Spotlight: Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Solo Competition
  The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra features a Young Artist Solo Competition. This years finalists were all wonderful high-school aged musicians from the area. Their performances from the final round of the competition, recorded at Concordia College in Moorhead on January 8, are in this week's Regional Spotlight.February 9, 2012
• Interview with Judith Lang Zaimont
  Composer Judith Zaimont and her music are the focus of a residency taking place at the U of M School of Music. Steve Staruch spoke to her about the regional premiere of her new work: Solar Traveler for Piano and Wind Orchestra.February 8, 2012
• Music with Minnesotans: Reid McLean
  Reid McLean is an Associate Director of Major Gifts at Macalester College and he's been chomping at the bit to share some pieces on-air that we just don't play nearly enough!February 8, 2012
• 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.February 8, 2012
• Video: Chad Hoopes performing Brahms' Violin Sonata No. 2, II. Andante Tranquillo
  Classical MPR's 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence Chad Hoopes stopped by our studios for a performance. Enjoy this video of him performing Brahms' Violin Sonata No. 2 Op. 100: II. Andante TranquilloFebruary 7, 2012
• Minnesota Varsity Featured Round Chosen
  Fifteen entrants have been chosen by MPR Judges for Minnesota Varsity's Featured Round. MPR engineers will travel around the state to make a professional recording of these artists' performances, which will then be heard on Classical MPR, on air and online.February 7, 2012
• The Lads in Their Hundreds: the Music of World War I - An Essay by Bill Morelock
  The popular public television series Downton Abbey has opened a window on the era of the Great War -- today somewhat obscured by time and later conflicts. For many writers, artists and other observers, World War I represented the original 20th century loss of innocence, and still resonates in the culture today. Here's a look at a few composers of the era, and how they responded to the trauma of the Great War.February 6, 2012
• Donizetti's Anna Bolena from The Met
  Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII, and Marco Armiliato conducts. A behind the scenes video is also available.February 4, 2012
• Flicks in Five: Alfred Newman
  Longtime music director at 20th Century Fox and father of the studio's famous fanfare, Alfred Newman holds the distinction of winning more Oscars (9) than anyone outside of Walt Disney, AND his record for nominations is tied at John Williams at 45. If Williams is nominated next week for "War Horse" the tie is broken in regard to that!February 4, 2012
• An interview and performance from Accordo
  They are colleagues and friends, a most welcome combination in the highly emotional world of chamber music performance. First chair players in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra, Steven Copes, Ruggero Allifranchini , Maiya Papach and Tony Ross are Accordo. In anticipation of a performance on Monday, February 6, Accordo stopped by to perform and chat with Steve Staruch.February 2, 2012
• Regional Spotlight: Nelson Goerner
  There are those magical piano recital performances where everything goes superbly. When the program sings, the piano purrs and the audiences listens as one to every nuance of the artist, it's something indescribable. Pianist Nelson Goerner gave a Frederic Chopin Society recital just this last weekend. By all accounts this was a performance that will live long in the memory. His Mozart performance was especially transcendent as you will here in this week's Regional Spotlight.February 1, 2012
• Music with Minnesotans: Joan Potter
  Theater director/producer, writer and retired teacher Joan Potter recently traveled to Peru to hike to Machu Pichu and experienced an awe-inspiring sight when the clouds way below her started to rise up the mountains. The scene brought some of the most soulful music into her mind.February 1, 2012
• 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.February 1, 2012

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