NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley Stanford, California / 279

About

From Stanford University, this week’s From the Top features an all-California crew of performers including an extraordinary 12-year-old guitarist from the Bay Area performing the music of Villa-Lobos, the San Francisco Girls Chorus singing a beautiful arrangement of a song from Joni Mitchell’s first album, and a funny story about a young pianist who found himself destroying his own piano by practicing too much.

Performers & Repertoire

• Stanford Alumni Piano Trio
  Youjin Lee, 18, violin; Anna Wittstruck, cello; Hugo Kitano, 18, piano

  The third movement, Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace, from Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49, by Felix Mendelssohn
• David Yu, 18, piano

  The first movement, So rasch wie möglich, from Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22, by Robert Schumann
• San Francisco Girls Chorus

  "Slav'sya" (Be Glorious) from Six Choruses, Op. 15, by Sergei Rachmaninoff, accompanied by Susan Soehner; and "The Pirate of Penance" by Joni Mitchell, arranged and accompanied by Christopher O'Riley
• Chase Onodera, 12, guitar

  Prelude No. 1 in E minor, Andantino espressivo, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
• Youjin Lee, 18, violin

  Solo Sonata in E major, Op. 27, No. 6 by Eugène Ysaÿe
• Christopher O'Riley and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra

  The third movement, Presto from Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra by Maurice Ravel

Release Dates

• Monday, March 16, 2015
• Monday, July 7, 2014
• Monday, December 2, 2013

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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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