Classical Music Features

• Artist-in-Residence: Minnesota Percussion Trio
  Classical MPR is now in its fourth year of welcoming Artists-in-Residence to schools throughout Minnesota. One of this year's featured artists is The Minnesota Percussion Trio, who perform eclectic music using a range of percussive instruments from marimbas to plastic buckets.March 14, 2013
• Breaking: Pope Francis I Loves Opera
  Here's a quick side note to today's big news...March 13, 2013
• Artist-in-Residence: Lyz Jaakola
  Classical MPR is now in its fourth year of welcoming Artists-in-Residence to schools throughout Minnesota. One of this year's featured artists is Lyz Jakkola, who strives to promote traditional Anishinaabe music and culture.March 13, 2013
• New Classical Tracks: Music of Questions and Few Answers
  When Sibelius wrote his Fourth Symphony it was considered to be strange and dark. Vanska instills in the Minnesota Orchestra the passion he's developed from living and breathing these works.March 12, 2013
• Artist-in-Residence: Crocus Hill Trio
  Classical MPR is now in its fourth year of welcoming Artists-in-Residence to schools throughout Minnesota. One of this year's featured artists is The Crocus Hill Trio who have been performing together for 20 years.March 12, 2013
• The Flanders Recorder Quartet at St. Mary's Cathedral
  Flanders is a lively center for recorder playing and building, so (not unexpectedly) this ensemble represented the best of the best. With charming music and an engaging personal delivery, three guys blew on their little wooden sticks and made for magical moments.March 11, 2013
• Morning Glories: The "Other" Piece
  Next week on Morning Glories, we'll celebrate some of the other ones. We'll take five pieces that live in the shade of their celebrated siblings, and shine the spotlight on them, for once.March 11, 2013
• First Listen: Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt, 'Night'
  Opposites attract in Night, a genre-blurring album that pairs alt-country singer-songwriter Tift Merritt with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein. There's a solemn intimacy to these songs, and how they're delivered, that speaks one-on-one.March 10, 2013
• 10 Essential Facts About Don Carlo
  Tune in to Classical MPR on Saturday, March 9, at 10 a.m. CT to hear Verdi's Don Carlo, live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In prep for that performance, here are 10 facts which you might not know about the opera.March 8, 2013
• Carnegie Hall Live: Golijov's 'St. Mark Passion'
  Tune in at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 10th to hear one of the most exciting pieces of 21st-century music: a new retelling of Jesus' last days, from the Latin American and Jewish perspectives, courtesy of composer Osvaldo Golijov and his vibrant cast of collaborators.March 8, 2013
• Interview: Anne-Sophie Mutter
  Violin superstar Anne-Sophie Mutter performs with pianist Lambert Orkis Monday March 11 at the Ordway as part of the Schubert Club International Artist Series. She spoke with Steve Staruch.March 8, 2013
• The Parker Quartet perform at Classical MPR and discuss their upcoming concert
  Minnesota's own Parker Quartet are one of the most celebrated classical ensembles of their generation. Today, they returned to Minnesota Public Radio's studios for a performance and interview with Emily Reese.March 7, 2013
• Carnegie Hall Live: Ensemble Matheus
  Tune in to Classical MPR to hear Ensemble Matheus live on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. CT. The evening's concert features three composers who were rivals at the opera house: George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Nicola Antonio Porpora.March 5, 2013
• New Classical Tracks: Prepare for Goose Bumps
  Violinist Joshua Bell, who is now also conductor Joshua Bell, talks about his new recording and the excitement of Beethoven's symphonies.March 5, 2013
• Morning Glories: Pianos and Sunshine
  Every weekday morning at 10 a.m., the hosts at Classical MPR play a stand-out work based on the theme for the week. We call them Morning Glories. The new month brings a week of new releases, this time focusing on some sparkling pianists playing sunshine-y repertoire.March 4, 2013

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