Classical New Releases

Saturdays, after the opera

Your host Mark Pinto spotlights notable new classical recordings and other additions to WRTI’s ever-expanding classical music library. You’ll hear renowned international performers alongside acclaimed local artists and ensembles in music you already know and music Mark thinks you should. He always puts together a varied, entertaining, and informative mix. Whenever the opera ends on Saturday afternoons, check out Classical New Releases with Mark Pinto!

WRTI 90.1 Announces: The Top 10 New Classical Releases of 2017!

By • Dec 28, 2017

WRTI's Mark Pinto fills you in on the latest and greatest classical music recordings on (most) Saturdays at 5 pm on Classical New Releases. Here are his top 10 picks for 2017, not in any particular order. Take a look!

Vintage Nordic Folk Tunes, With Strings Attached

By • Dec 5, 2017

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. For centuries, it's always found common ground with folk music.

Enter, the Danish String Quartet.

1917 in Review on Discoveries: Andreae, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev

By Kile Smith • Nov 27, 2017

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, December 2nd, 5 to 6 pm... We celebrated anniversaries throughout 2017: the 100th of the births of Robert Ward and Richard Yardumian, the 150th of Charles Koechlin and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, the 200th of Niels Gade, and the 300th of Johann Stamitz.

Passover and Remembering on Now Is the Time: April 8th at 9 PM on WRTI HD-2

By Kile Smith • Apr 6, 2017

Passover passes, and remembrance continues on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 8th at 9 pm. The composer and guitarist David Leisner tells the story, in Acrobats, of circus performers on a concentration camp-bound train who mistakenly end up at a circus.

Classical New Releases Show Spotlights Women Artists: March 11 at 4 PM

By WRTI Staff • Mar 9, 2017

Join WRTI host Mark Pinto for a special edition of Classical New Releases! In honor of Women's History Month, it’s music of female composers and performances by innovative female musicians on Saturday, March 11th right after the Met Opera.

Mackenzie, Holbrooke, and British Music Coming into Its Own

By Kile Smith • Mar 1, 2017
Josef Holbrooke by E.O. Hoppé, 1913

Two British composers populate this month’s Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday at 5:00 p.m. on WRTI. Josef Holbrooke and Alexander Mackenzie were well known and enjoyed success, but they often struggled to gain more than a foothold in performance circles. The reasons, however, were different.

The Best of the Fall Season: Classical New Releases

By • Dec 12, 2016

WRTI's Mark Pinto fills us in on the latest classical music CDs on Saturdays after the opera on Classical New Releases. Check out five newly released recordings he recommends!

What's So Great About A String Quartet Playing By Heart?

By • Oct 17, 2016
Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

You go to a concert and see a string quartet looking like most every other string quartet — until it dawns on you they’re not looking at music. WRTI’s Susan Lewis talks to the Chiara String Quartet, who plays all the Bartók string quartets, and more, from memory.

How She Danced

By Kile Smith • Sep 2, 2016

Mischievous, menacing, or minuetting, it's dancing during our Labor Day Weekend Dance Party and on Now Is the Time, Saturday, September 3rd at 9 pm on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org.

Classical CD Selections: Mark Pinto's Summertime Roundup

By • Aug 23, 2016

WRTI's Mark Pinto fills us in on the latest classical music CDs on (most) Saturdays at 5 pm on Classical New Releases. Here are five newly released recordings he recommends. Take a look!

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