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Host Julie Amacher provides an in-depth exploration of a new classical music release each week.

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Recent Episodes

  • Xavier Montsalvatge: Canciones & ConciertosNew 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.March 13, 2012
  • Triple doubles - Vermont Symphony OrchestraNew Classical Tracks - Triple doubles
    Double your pleasure with a new release from the Sarah Hicks and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.March 6, 2012
  • Tine Thing Helseth - StorytellerNew 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.February 22, 2012
  • Simone Dinnerstein - Something Almost Being SaidNew 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.February 15, 2012
  • Anne Akiko Meyers - 'Air' - The Bach AlbumNew 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

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