Sep 24th, 2008 · This week, From the Top is in Berkeley, California, where a 12-year-old pianist joyfully wraps her brain and fingers around a Bach fugue, a hockey-playing bassoonist performs Weber and a teen quartet offers up a new work by a local 17-year-old.
May 22nd, 2008 · It's been called "repellent," "joyous," and "the most advanced piece of music anyone could think of." Hear Beethoven's Grosse Fuge played by the adventurous Borromeo String Quartet in the studios of WGBH in Boston.
Aug 20th, 2007 · Saxophonist Harry Allen and singer-instrumentalist Eddie Erickson are just two of the performers on a new CD, The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet Perform Music From 'Guys and Dolls'. Erickson, who's best known as a guitarist, is featured on the disc as a vocalist, singing Frank Loesser's tunes alongside Rebecca Kilgore.
Oct 11th, 2006 · The music world celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Juilliard Quartet Wednesday. Host Fred Child talks with the quartet's first violinist, Joel Smirnoff. And, from a 1987 Juilliard Quartet recording, we hear Bach's Contrapuncti Nos. 2, 7 and 9 from The Art of the Fugue.
Jul 10th, 2006 · Two keyboard artists from Norway? Yes. But one of these things is not like the other. Accordionist Geir Draugsvoll plays Two Inventions by Gierr Tveitt, and pianist Havard Gimse plays Franck's Prelude, Fugue and Variation.
May 13th, 2006 · Many DJs spun, mixed and scratched their way through Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little" Fugue in G Minor for the chance to win $500 in Eugene, Ore., this week. We hear the efforts of the top three competitors.