New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher

Julie Amacher

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

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Bonus Tracks

New Classical Tracks Extra: Lara Downes

So, what does it really mean to be an exile? That's a question pianist Lara Downes tries to answer with her latest recording. Exiles' Café is a collection of 19th and 20th century solo piano works written by composers in...
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New Classical Tracks: Modern Mandolin Quartet - Americana Bonus Content

Not all of the content from an episode of New Classical Tracks makes the audio cut. Here is further information and interviews relating to the new disc, Americana by the Modern Mandolin Quartet. The Modern Mandolin Quartet welcomes this...
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New Classical Tracks: Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano II Bonus Content

Not all of the content from an episode of New Classical Tracks makes the audio cut. Here is further information and interviews relating to the new disc, Solo Piano II by Chilly Gonzales.
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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