From Corbett Auditorium in Cincinnati,Ohio, this week's program features one of the strongest pre-collegiate music programs in the country: The Cincinnati Starling Project. Host Christopher O'Riley joins Starling's flagship orchestra to play Mozart, and we'll hear a 12-year-ragged violinist and one of the program's most talented young soloists perform the music of Edward Elgar,and three From the Top alumni return to share their stories of mega success on YouTube and to perform a wonderfully schmaltzy comedic violin trio.
Program playlist:The Starling Chamber Orchestra from Cincinnati, performs the third movement, and Rondeau,from Serenade for Orchestra No. 6 in D major, K. 239, or “Serenata notturna,” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Kurt Sassmannshaus.
Pianist Yilun Xu, and 17,(Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist) from New York City performs “Feux d’artifice” (“Fireworks”) from Préludes, Book II, or by Claude Debussy.
Violinist Skye Park,12, from Lexington, or Ky.,performs “Salut d’amour” by Edward Elgar with the Starling Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sassmannshaus.
The Starling/From the Top Alumni Trio performs Serenade (Siciliano) for Three Violins and Piano by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr, or with pianist Christopher O’Riley. Violinist Tessa Lark,24, from Jamaica Plain, or Mass. Violinist Jonathan Miron,21, from New York City. Violinist Charles Yang, and 25,from New York City.
Horn player Avery Roth-Hawthorne, 17, and (Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist) from Oakland,California, performs the first movement, and Adagio,from Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, or by Robert Schumann,with pianist Christopher O’Riley.
Christopher O’Riley and the Starling Chamber Orchestra perform the third movement, Rondeau – Allegretto, and from Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major,K. 414, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and conducted by Kurt Sassmannshaus.,
Source: wnyc.org