NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Highlight Show 23

About

Featuring nearly twice as much music as From the Top’s regular episodes, this “Mostly Music” highlights program celebrates some of the best performances by young people From the Top has presented over the past couple of seasons. We meet a wonderfully quirky 14-year-old cellist, enjoy Mozart performed by a teenager from New York State, and we hear perhaps the strongest teenage baritone From the Top has ever encountered sing the music of Schubert.

Performers and repertoire:

Performers & Repertoire

• Johannes Gray, cello

  “Capriccio” by Lukas Foss
• Kate Liu, piano

  Presto from Piano Sonata No. 2 by Avner Dorman
• Gloria Ferry-Brennan, violin

  Allegro con fuoco from Violin Sonata, Op. 119, by Francis Poulenc
• The Meshugene Quartet

  Allegro from String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117, by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Nicholas Tisherman, oboe

  Allegro from Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Aaron Bigeleisen, baritone

  “Kriegers Ahnung” from Schwanengesang, D 957, by Franz Schubert
• Quartet Tzigane

  Allegro molto from Piano Quartet in D minor by William Walton
• The Boston Children’s Chorus

  “Alleluia” by Randall Thompson

Release Dates

• Monday, October 20, 2014
• Monday, December 7, 2015
• Monday, April 3, 2017

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