NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Rochester, New York / Show 316

About

This week From the Top celebrates its young musicians with the superb Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and their conductor, Ward Stare. The orchestra performs concerti with three young soloists including a 14-year-old pianist tackling the music of Grieg and a 17-year-old clarinetist playing Mozart. The orchestra also performs the broadcast premiere of a new work by a 16-year-old composer, and we’ll learn about that young composer’s extraordinary side career as a boy soprano.

Performers & Repertoire

• Raymond Feng, 14, piano, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

  III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato from the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg
• Alec Manassee, 17, clarinet, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

  II. Adagio and III. Rondo: Allegro from the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K. 622, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Clarinetist Alec Manassee, violist Melissa Matson (principal viola of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra), and pianist Christopher O’Riley

  III. Rondo from the Trio in E-flat major, K. 498 “Kegelstatt Trio” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Benjamin Wenzelberg, 16, composer and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

  "Maelström"
• Esther Yu, 15, cello, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

  IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, ma non troppo from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 85 by Edward Elgar

Release Dates

• Monday, February 8, 2016
• Monday, July 18, 2016
• Monday, March 13, 2017

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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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