Harpy New Year!

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Brian Swager full profile / Solo Harp (Concert Grand Harp) / 1 musician

Composers featured: Piazzolla, Salzedo, Glinka, Debussy

Full program notes

CHALLAN: Romance for Cinderella & Brocéliande
SALZEDO: Chanson dans la nuit
SCARLATTI: Sonata in A Major
Londonderry Air
GLINKA: Nocturne
PIAZZOLLA: Chiquilín de Bachín
DEBUSSY: La Fille aux cheveux de lin & Première arabesque
ZABEL: Murmure de la cascade (Whisper of the Waterfall)

Historical context

Today's program showcases the many colors of the harp through a variety of musical styles including Romantic music written expressly and idiomatically for the harp, Baroque music in transcription, the Impressionism of Debussy that sounds as though it were originally written for harp, an arrangement of Londonderry Air in a quintessentially harpistic style, and the genius of Salzedo's special harp techniques in his evocative "Song in the Night."

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  • Instruments: Solo harp

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