NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Highlight Show 26

About

Featuring nearly twice as much music as From the Top’s regular episodes, this highlights program celebrates some of the best performances young people have given on From the Top over the past couple of seasons. Amongst the extraordinary young people featured on this episode, we meet the youngest artist ever to record all of the Chopin’s etudes with a major label and a violinist who, at the age of 9, isn’t big enough for a full-sized violin but whose sound fills the theater and brings down the house.

Performers & Repertoire

• Annie Jacobs-Perkins, 16, cello

  “At the Fountain” Op. 20, No. 2 by Carl Davidoff, accompanied by Christopher O'Riley, piano.
• Niu Niu, 16, piano

  Etudes, Op. 10, No. 3 in E major and No. 12 in C minor, "Revolutionary" by Frédéric Chopin
• Elizabeth Aoki, 9, violin

  “Introduction and Tarantelle,” Op.43 by Pablo de Sarasate with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Ryan Roberts, 17, oboe

  Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Mvt. 1 “Elegie” by Francis Poulenc with Christoper O’Riley, piano
• Olivia Cosio, 17, mezzo-soprano

  “Bucking Bronco” from Cowboy Songs by Libby Larsen with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Bokyung Byun, 18, guitar

  Recuerdos De La Alhambra by Francisco Tarraga
• Quartet Lumiere

  String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, Mvt I. Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato by Edvard Grieg
• Niu Niu, 16, piano

  La Campanella by Franz Liszt

Release Dates

• Monday, December 12, 2016
• Monday, September 11, 2017
• Monday, March 12, 2018

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