NPR’s From the Top: Brunswick, ME / Show 361

About

Concert pianist Orli Shaham guest hosts this week’s From the Top from Brunswick, Maine! We’ll hear her talk shop with a superb teenage pianist who performs the music of Brahms, meet a violinist from Maine who happens to do serious biomedical research when he’s not in the practice room, and a very young, very fun brother-sister guitar duo plays contemporary music from Brazil.

Guests

• Guest Host: Orli Shaham
  Orli Shaham has established an impressive international reputation as one of today's most gifted pianists.

Performers & Repertoire

• Jiaxun “Caroline” Yao, 16, cello

  I. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto from the Sonata for Cello and Piano by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), with Orli Shaham, piano
• Davisson Guitar Duo (Elle, 10, and Jack, 13)

  “Jongo” by Paulo Bellinati (b.1950)
• Aaron Brown, 17, bassoon

  I. Vivace from the Sonata for Bassoon and Piano by William Hurlstone (1876-1906), with Orli Shaham, piano.
• Avery Gagliano, 17, piano

  I. Intermezzo in A minor and III. Ballade in G minor from 6 Klavierstücke, Op.118 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).
• Brandon Aponte, 17, violin

  “Méditation” from Thaïs by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), with Orli Shaham, piano.
• FINALE: Orli Shaham and all the performers

  VI. Le Pas Espagnol from Dolly Suite, Op.56 by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), arr. by Simon Frisch

Release Dates

• Monday, December 17, 2018
• Monday, July 8, 2019
• Monday, January 27, 2020
• Monday, June 29, 2020

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Support Provided By

Support for this program is provided in part by the Onion Foundation, Maine Public and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

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