NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley Aspen, Colorado / 294

About

Show 294 was recorded at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, Colorado, where many of the world’s top young musicians come to study during the summer. An outstanding teenage violinist from Shanghai triumphs in his performance of one of the most difficult and virtuosic pieces written for unaccompanied violin (see the video here), and we’ll meet a young flutist with a moving story about being adopted as an 18-year-old into a new family.

Performers & Repertoire

• Aspen Piano Trio
  Qing Yu Chen, 14; Macintyre Taback, 16; Huan Li, 17

  Allegro con brio from Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 by Johannes Brahms
• Lucie Ticho, 16, cello

  Serenade No.2 (Spanish Dance), Op.54, No. 2 by David Popper
• Yiliang Jiang, 18, violin

  Sonata in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3 "Ballade", by Eugene Ysaÿe
• Anthony Trionfo, 19, flute

  Allegro, from the Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 167 "Undine" by Carl Reinecke
• Taek Gi Lee, 17, piano

  Nocturne, Op. 48, No.1 in C minor by FréŽdéŽric Chopin
• Aspen Alumni Trio
  Anne Richardson, Zlatomir Fung, cello; Sarina Zhang

  Finale, from Suite for Two Cellos and Piano by Gian Carlo Menotti

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Release Dates

• Monday, April 27, 2015
• Monday, October 6, 2014

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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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