Lavinia Meijer has released her new recording "Voyage" for Sony Classical. The recording includes works from French composers including the harp staples Introduction and Allegro, by Ravel, and Danses Sacree et Profane, by Debussy. On her website Meijer describes her...
If you watched the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, you've already heard harpist Claire Jones, who served as Royal Harpist to HRH Prince of Wales from 2007–2011 and got to perform for the legendary ceremony in 2011. (See a list of other Royal...
Floraleda Sacchi has released Intimamente Tango, her new recording with violinist Maristella Patuzzi of works by Astor Piazzolla on the Decca label. The disc includes standards such as "Libertango" and the "Histoire du Tango" suite, along with other less well-known...
Jazz harp guru Park Stickney has released a new solo recording, All Harp—Globe Live. The disc features original compositions, along with Park's improvisational take on everything from standards (Duke Ellington's "Caravan") to rock (Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody) to...
The America's Got Talent quartet Sons of Serendip, featuring harpist Mason Morton, has released their debut studio recording. The new release is a self-titled compilation of the group’s most memorable performances on the show. In its first week out the album is...
Yolanda Kondonassis has released the CD Together with guitarist Jason Vieaux on the Azica label. The recording features original works for harp and guitar including Alan Hovhaness' Spirit of Trees, Xavier Montsalvatge's Fantasia, Máximo Diego Pujol's Suite Magica,...
This week Ann Hobson Pilot releases Astor Piazzolla: Escualo, her new recording with Lucia Lin and JP Jofre on the Harmonia Mundi label featuring the works of Astor Piazzolla. I asked the former Boston Symphony Orchestra principal harpist to tell us about the...
French harpist Ghislaine Petit-Volta has released Hommage à Rameau, a collection of "varied viewpoints on Jean Philippe Rameau" according to the disc's liner notes. In addition to Petit-Volta's transcriptions of the nine movements by Rameau in his first book of Pieces...
Belgian harpist Anneleen Lenaerts has released a CD of harp concertos with the Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Michel Tabachnik. The disc, which has been released on the Warner Classic label, includes harp concertos by Reinhold Glière (op. 78) and Joseph Jongen...
Warner Classics has just released Lily Laskine—The Complete Erato and HMV Recordings, a 14-CD set that spans the 23-year recording career of the famous French harp virtuoso. The collection includes Laskine's first recording—of Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp,...
