NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley Salem, Massachusetts / 292

About

Show 292 was recorded at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. We hear an award-winning string quartet from Chicago perform the music of Bartók, and a teenager from Maryland performs an epic piece on the traditional Chinese instrument, the guzheng. Watch a video of the guzheng performance here.

Given the show’s art museum venue, each young performer also discusses a connection between the music they’re performing and a work of visual art in the museum’s collection. You can see those photos by visiting this show’s flickr gallery.

This show also featured the works of Peabody Essex Museum Composer-in-Residence Matthew Aucoin. “Corona” may be heard on the broadcast and seen in a video here.

Another movement, Sprich Auch Du, maybe seen in this video:

Performers & Repertoire

• Quartet Fuoco
  Rachel Stenzel, Aidan Perreault, David Berghoff, Christopher Gao

  The fifth movement, Allegro molto, from String Quartet No. 4 by Béla Bartók
• Katherine Leidlein, 18, soprano

  "Chanson triste" by Henri Duparc, with pianist Christopher O'Riley
• Rujia Teng, 18, guzheng

  The Eternal Sorrow of Lin'An by Zhanhao He, with pianist Christopher O'Riley
• Andrew Li, 14, piano

  Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major, S. 244/6, by Franz Liszt
• Matthew Aucoin, composer

  "Corona" from his Celan Fragments
• Yuki Beppu, 17, violin

  "Corona" from Celan Fragments by Matthew Aucoin
• Quartet Fuoco

  The fourth movement, Allegro molto, from String Quartet No. 2 in A minor by William Walton

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Release Dates

• Monday, March 23, 2015
• Monday, September 22, 2014
• Monday, August 24, 2015

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Support Provided By

From the Top is grateful to the staff of Peabody Essex Museum for helping to make this unique event possible.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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