Nov 19th, 2008 · From the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, a gifted flutist embraces a Swiss ballade, a 16-year-old violinist tosses off a devilish sonata and a 14-year-old pianist tackles Liszt's Mephisto Waltz.
Jun 11th, 2008 · This week, From the Top comes from the Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, Colorado, where teenagers spending their summer at the Aspen Music Festival and School offer up inspired performances. Among the gifted young musicians are an oboist from China, a pianist from Ukraine, and a double bassist who plays both classical music and jazz. This show originally aired December 5, 2007
Jul 21st, 2006 · Violinist Gilles Apap and the Transylvanian Mountain Boys appear at the Aspen Music Festival, where they perform an assortment of Irish reels, Romanian folk tunes, Django Rhinehart swing, improvisations and more.
Jul 20th, 2006 · At this summer's Aspen Music Festival, pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel open with a short piece by Alexander Borodin. Then, violist Masao Kawasaki and violinist Lev Polyakin join Finckel and Han onstage for the closing movement of the Piano Quartet by William Walton.
Jul 19th, 2006 · Marc-Andre Dalbavie is composer-in-residence at this summer's Aspen Music Festival. He's taken words and tunes from 12th-century love songs, then re-set them with a beautiful contemporary twist. Fred Child joined him last week at the Aspen Music Festival.
Jul 18th, 2006 · At the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, we hear pieces performed by three remarkable young musicians: 13-year-old Caroline Goulding, 12-year-old Conrad Tao and 13-year-old Peng Peng Gong.
Feb 19th, 2006 · Some pure Americana comes from the pen of recent four-time Grammy winner William Bolcom. His "Ragomania" honors jazz great Eubie Blake and Bolcom's idol George Gershwin. This performance of "Ragomania" comes from the Aspen Music Festival, with Marin Alsop conducting the Aspen Festival Orchestra.
Feb 14th, 2006 · Conductor David Robertson and pianist Orli Shaham are a loving couple. Shaham tells how Robertson proposed at the Aspen Music Festival, and they make beautiful music together, performing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony.