New Classical Tracks

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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

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. (4:58s)

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. (4:59s)

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. (4:58s)

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." (4:59s)

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. (4:58s)