NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Aspen, Colorado / Show 275
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This week, From the Top comes to you from Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where you’ll meet an outstanding array of young musicians who are studying here this summer. Among them, you’ll hear a 16-year-old pianist performing from Préludes, Book II by Claude Debussy, a 14-year-old cellist performing the music of Édouard Lalo, and a 16-year-old violinist performing Tchaikovsky’s playful Waltz-Scherzo.
Performers & Repertoire
- The fourth movement, Finale: Allegro assai appassionato, from the Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op. 49, by Felix Mendelssohn
- Villanelle for Horn and Piano by Paul Dukas
- The third movement, Introduction: Andante Allegro Vivace, from the Cello Concerto in D minor by Édouard Lalo
- “Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses” and “Général Lavine – eccentric” from Préludes, Book II by Claude Debussy
- Waltz-Scherzo, Op.34 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Transcendental Etude No.5 in B-flat major, "Feux Follets" by Franz Liszt
- With the Alumni Piano Trio, the fourth movement, Finale: Allegro assai appassionato, from the Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op. 49, by Felix Mendelssohn
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