I have just spent many hours editing the first harp part to Elgar’s Symphony #2, which we are about to start rehearsing tomorrow. It is a very pianistic part, with a lot of chromatic passages and some completely unplayable sections. Has anyone else on this forum played this part? I think I may have got a good solution to it now.
Both concerts went really well and now I have a part that works like a charm. The last page of the last movement is an absolutely gorgeous filigree between the two harps. It’s too bad that the orchestration is so thick.