NPR’s From the Top: San Marcos, TX / Show 373

About

This week’s special episode of From the Top with guest host and concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein puts the spotlight on the piano in all its splendid configurations. Recorded at the Texas State International Piano Festival, we’ll hear some of the country’s premiere young pianists perform as soloists and members of small ensembles – including a raucous piece for eight hands at one piano!

Guests

• Guest Host: Simone Dinnerstein
  American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is known for her “majestic originality of vision” (the Independent) and her “lean, knowing and unpretentious elegance” (the New Yorker).

Performers & Repertoire

• Pianist Angelina Ning, 14, from Boca Raton, FL

  Serried with a Tinge of Bop, by Doug Opel (b.1967)
• Hoang Piano Duo
  • Pianists Beatrice & Ben Hoang

  III. Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas from “Mother Goose Suite” by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
• Schubert Piano Quintet
  •Simone Dinnerstein, piano; Haeun Moon, violin; Yong-Ha Jung, viola; cellist Hayoung Moon; William McGregor, double bass

  IV. Theme and Variations from the Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 "The Trout" by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• Pianist Emma Taggart, 16, from Blaine, MN

  Liebestraum No. 3 in A Flat Major by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
• Simone Dinnerstein, guest host/piano

  Etude No. 6 by Philip Glass (b.1937)
• Bach Concerto for Two Pianos
  • Pianists Ethan Yuen and Simone Dinnerstein with violinists Haeun Moon and Nikki Naghavi, violist Yong-Ha Jung, viola, cellist Hayoung Moon, and William McGregor, double bass

  I. Allegro from Bach Double Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060
• Eight Hands, One Piano Ensemble
  • Pianists Regina Lin, Erin Fitzgerald, Antonio Ajero, Ella Sunyoung Kim

  Galop-Marche for Eight Hands by Albert Lavignac (1846-1916)

Release Dates

• Monday, September 16, 2019
• Monday, August 30, 2021

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Support Provided By

Angelia Ning’s performance is part of From the Top’s New Music Series, supported in part by the Amphion Foundation and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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