Over the past decade the American radio show “From the Top” has established itself as the pre-eminent showcase for young musicians. Now in its 10th Anniversary season, “From the Top” has joined forces with Erich Kunzel – who sadly died at the beginning of September – and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra to release its first recording. Amongst the musicians featured on this new CD showcasing young talent is Korean-born pianist Ji-Yong, 18, who at the age of 10 was the youngest pianist ever to win the New York Philharmonic Young Artists Competition. Here she performs the first movement of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. Other artists on the disc include 15-year-old violinist Chad Hoopes, a recent winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, playing a movement from Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G Minor, and Hilda Huang, 13, performing J.S. Bach’s Concerto No. 5 in F Minor.

Violinist Caroline Goulding, 16, of Cleveland Ohio is joined by Christopher O’Riley in a performance of Mendelssohn’s rarely heard Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings. Finally, 17-year-old Matthew Allen plays the “Hungarian Rhapsodie” by David Popper, and Corey Dundee, an 18-year-old from Charlotte, NC closes the programme with Russell Peck’s The Upward Stream, the work with which the tenor saxophonist secured a win in the prestigious Concerto Competition at the Interlochen Centre of the Arts.