NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Boston, Massachusetts / 283

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From Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, this week’s From the Top features “The Lark” by Mikhail Glinka brought to life by a wonderfully musical 11-year-old pianist. We’ll also enjoy some unaccompanied Bach performed by a very thoughtful teenager from the Boston area, and a teenage string quartet shares moving stories about the healing power of music in their own lives.

Performers & Repertoire

• Zlatomir Fung, 14, cello

  The fifth movement, Bourée, and the sixth movement, Bourée, from Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010, by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Gregorio Lopes, 18, violin

  Mélodie, Op. 42, No. 3, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with Christopher O'Riley, piano
• Quartet Noce
  Joy Kuo, 18, violin; Rose Moerschel, 17, violin; Sloane Wesloh, 17, viola; Drake Driscoll, 18, cello

  The first movement, Adagio con moto, from String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata," by Leoš Janáček
• Deanna Cirielli, 15, harp

  Impromptu, Op. 86, by Gabriel Fauré
• Maxim Lando, 11, piano

  "The Lark" by Mikhail Glinka, arranged by Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
• Zlatomir Fung, 14, cello

  The fifth movement, Vito from Spanish Dances, Op. 54, by David Popper, with Christopher O'Riley, piano

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