This is the first in a projected three-volume set that will collect all of Emilie Mayer’s surviving orchestral works.

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Jonathan Borja's latest release is a full album featuring the compositions of Arturo Rodríguez.

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WPR Music host Jason Heilman says it's the perfect album for quiet evenings alone with your thoughts.

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Screen legend Anthony Hopkins releases latest collection of classical music.

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The Munich Chamber Orchestra explores the connection between Beethoven's symphonies and the works of his Italian contemporaries.

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Maria Dueñas so reveres 20th-century violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz’s RCA Victor recording that she completely duplicates it in this project, featuring the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

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The two symphonies by English composer William Walton are major twentieth century works, and have finally found a home in this new release.

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WPR and PBS Wisconsin present Madison Symphony at 100 at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10. The Madison Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 years with a concert of time-honored classics in a program that also honors John DeMain's distinguished tenure as music director.

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Eunice Kim and Jinwoo Lee, who make up the duo "Arco e Tasto" or "Bow and Fingerboard," have released an album featuring the music of two 19th century German composers.

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The album encompasses familiar favorites from the piano repertoire as well as folk tunes, Disney songs and more.

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The works on this album make for a complementary, powerful pairing; one that helps mark America’s 250th anniversary with skillfully composed and beautifully performed orchestral pieces created out of widely divergent lives.

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A new recording of Brahms' Fourth Symphony by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

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Japanese composer, conductor and pianist Joe Hisaishi has been packing concert halls around the world performing his own music, much of it written for the anime films produced by Studio Ghibli.

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The album puts together a dozen works from the heyday of Mel Bonis’s career, from her return to composing in the 1890s to the outbreak of World War I.

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This new DG recording includes two keyboard concertos: No. 9 (K. 271) and No. 22 (K. 482), both of which are in the key of E-flat.

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The Catalyst Quartet, formed in 2010 by the Sphinx Organization, serves as a catalyst for a more inclusive and inviting classical music experience.

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From July 20 through Aug. 1, audiences in the Appleton area have a unique opportunity to be immersed in classical music as an up-close experience, and perhaps a personal discovery. 

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“Hold These Truths” with Lara Downes and Friends will be released digitally on July 3 from the Pentatone label.

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This year’s musicians include Michael Andrews on cello, Anna Cromwell on violin and viola, Rochelle Pearson on violin and Angela Kratchmer on viola. Pianist Rie Tanaka will join the ensemble for the festival’s second week.

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