Information about the Harp Concerto.

1. Contact the composer for more details about the composition:
Valeri Kikta (b. October 22, 1941, in Vladmirovka, a village near Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian classical composer.

http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2793.htm l

He is currently a professor of music at the Moscow Conservatory.
email: leila17(at)hotbox.ru

2. The harpist and conductor who performed the premiere may be able to provide more information about the work.
Fresco of St. Sofia Cathedral of Kiev, concerto for harp and orchestra
Olga Erdeli, Harp
A. Korneyev Conductor, Moscow Philharmonic Soloists’ Ensemble
Dur: 26:50
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/14621.html

3.The pictures of the Frecoes.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lfkfx7e

4. Kitka has written a number of works with harp:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/kikta.htm

5.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/frescoes-at-st-sophias-kiev-concert-symphony-for-harp-and-orchestra-op-50-freski-sofii-kievskoi-kontsertnaia-simfoniia-dlia-arfy-s-orkestrom/oclc/61665576&referer=brief_results

Publisher: [Chicago?] : Lyon & Healy, 2004. Score and parts for sale. Notes: Score with complete orchestral parts (multiple copies of each part) and harp solo part; percussion parts include score masters & individual parts per movement.
Duration: 27:00.

” In the Lyon and Healy parts sometimes accidentals are printed, sometimes not. Use the recording to figure out what key certain passages are in. Page turns are in very odd places, just from a practice standpoint. There are also mistakes in the score.”

Copy on deposit:
Brigham Young University
Harold B. Lee Library
Provo, UT 84602 Description: 1 score (144 p.) + 17 parts ; 28 cm.

Research by
Clinton F. Nieweg
(Orchestra Repertoire Proofreader/Editor).
proofferr(at)comcast(dot)net