Tailleferre Sonata Perpetuum Mobile question

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

Does anyone know if the chords in bar 42 in Tailleferre’s harp Sonata third movement are accurate? There’s a very strange, crunchy chord that I have always wondered about. It happens twice in this movement.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

Do what sounds best. Keep in mind that she is contrasting some chords between the left and right hands.

[Alison]

We had Tailleferre as the radio ‘Composer of the Week’ recently, a 5 day exploration of her life story and her compositions and it was the first time I’d heard this work so we are in luck here, if what I hear is what you are describing at between 18 and 19 minutes in. The presenter didn’t specify only one movement, so hopefully that confirms that they have included complete the Sonata’s movement of interest to you, assuming you can listen to this in Canada. Performance credit duly to Maria Graf.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001nw5x

[Alison]

Recorded in 1991 on Philips Classics Productions, I found Maria Graf’s CD, plenty of chunky chords in the 3rd movement !

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

Thank you! There are several of these crunchy chords in that movement, so I guess she meant it!

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