Host Julie Amacher provides an in-depth exploration of a new classical music release each week.
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Hilary Hahn explores her heritage with violin works by Belgian composer Eugene Ysaye
Hilary Hahn - Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin (Deutsche Grammophon)
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“This was my grand homage. And I really put so much love and time and energy and respect into the recording,” violinist Hilary Hahn says...
Maya Beiser presents a feminine angle to Bach's cello suites
Maya Beiser – InfInIte Bach: J.S. Bach’s Six Cello Suites (Islandia Music Records)
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“I'll never forget. I think I was 10...
Violinist Randall Goosby explores concertos by Price and Bruch
Randall Goosby with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin — Max Bruch & Florence Price Violin Concertos (Decca)
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“This whole season, since January, I've been performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto,” violinist Randall Goosby says...
Lara Downes releases 'Love at Last,' an album of healing and hope
Lara Downes – Love at Last (PENTATONE)
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Love at Last is a new recording by pianist Lara Downes featuring music of healing and hope. The album contains music that came out of the darkest period of the global pandemic...
Violinist Tessa Lark goes back to her roots
Tessa Lark — The Stradgrass Sessions (First Hand Records)
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“Smell is supposedly one of the strongest sensory responses to bring memories back...
Osmo Vänskä finds a message about life in Mahler's Symphony No. 9
Osmo Vänskä/Minnesota Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (BIS)
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In the past few months, Osmo Vänskä has conducted from a wheelchair, a stool and now, finally, standing up after suffering a bad fall and shattering his pelvis...
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol combines jazz with classical Turkish music
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and A Far Cry — A Gentleman of Istanbul (Crier)
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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol is a Turkish American composer and multi-instrumentalist who grew up surrounded by Western classical piano music. Then, he discovered jazz...
Brooklyn Rider creates music out of opportunity
Brooklyn Rider — The Wanderer (Icy Cold Records)
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“We think of the string quartet as a laboratory and learning experience of which there is no end,” says Nicholas Cords the violist for Brooklyn Rider...
Conductor JoAnn Falletta has built a reputation championing American composers
JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra — Danny Elfman: Violin Concerto 'Eleven Eleven' & Adolphus Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Naxos)
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“I've been doing a lot of American concertos and commissioning them for our players...
Pianists Deborah Moriarty and Zhihua Tang bring many cultures together
Deborah Moriarty and Zhihua Tang — Connecting Cultures (BGR)
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“When you're playing two pianos or when you're playing piano for four hands, you do not only have to listen, but you have an attack that happens,” pianist Deborah Moriarty says about herself and...