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I love the playing of Lily Laskine (harp concertos- erato label), Anna Verkholantseva ( her reocrding is the egan label) her playing of Kikta’s msuic for harp and violin is little short of spectacular- just breathtaking), Isabelle Moretti (introduction and allegro), Alice Giles (her “harfe solo” on the german label musikado; its stunning), Marisa Robles (her retrospective CD on decca; “the world of the harp”). I end by saying that,
Catrin Finch did a great recording (“the Harpist”- Sony classical). Or send an e-mail to the very eminent Welsh harpist (and very lovely person!,
Oh! Thanks Elizabeth!I think Skaila Kanga plays with flat fingers sometimes. Though that was just one photograph….I had pictured something like having the fingers horizontal to the strings!! How stupid, because that’s not really possible, is it? Alex
Ada Sassoli, (1887?-1946), was actually a classmate of Salzedo’s I think, and they both graduated from the Paris conservatoire on the same day. Ada was among the first harpists to record as a soloist and she recorded music by Hasselmans and Zabel on Victor on the old 78rpm discs. I have a photograph on my computer if you’d like it; you might already have it though….She was also a most favoured student of Hasselmans and when Pierne was scouting for a young harpist to play the Konzertst?ck, Hasselmans immediately recommended Ada (even though Pierne chose the youthful Henriette Renie in her place). All of this information is not completely rock-solid. Have you read Owen’s “Eolian to thunder” ( a bio of Salzedo)? There is bound to be a lot of interesting info on Ada in this book and there is definitely an absolutely stunning photograph of she and Salzedo on graduation day in 1901.
Well personally I don’t understand this concept or what it looks like without someone showing me or seeing a picture! But I presume I play with round fingers! Can someone elaborate?
Alwyn’s crepescule, Britten interlude, Tournier’s images or preludes? These are all pieces of a similar level to the Beethoven….I am also not a college instructor, but it is just an opinion…
Hello! Suzzane Willison is one of our best young harpists here in the UK!I think she was recently appointed principal harpist of the Royal Philharmonic orchestra.
I learnt the Pastorale; its beautiful and great for teaching changes in time signatures! Its a great ” recital piece” for lever harps too, as there are no accidentals.
Kevin Kaska; “Knights of the Red Branch” for three harps and orchestra .Hope this thread isn’t too old….
Did Miss Lawrence talk often of her study with Salzedo? Or did she feel that she had built on his teachings to form her own distinctive playing? After all she outlived Salzedo by 43 years, she could have evolved a thousand times by her death. Were you ever kind of “aware” that what you were being taught was Salzedo technique or did it just seem that you were learning an individual technique from an individual teacher? In fact when di you becom aware that the stylke in which you played, was in some ways, differen to that of some colleagues. I mean when I had been playing for maybe a year, I was not aware of “schools”, it would be really interesting to know more about Lawrence, and Chalifoux and even Lucy Lewis (Jim/alumni of Oberlin? Are you out there?) all one can suppose is that they were groundbreaking musicians in the
Louise Pappoustakis was a student of Zhigera, she was also married to a rather famous flute pedagogue, so if you search her name on the web, you will find several references, anecdotes and snippets concerning Bernard Zhigera; hope this helps.
Jim a while ago I came across some stuff about/by/belonging to Lucy Lewis in its Library archive, some of which is published on the web.
Dear Anja, I am so sorry to hear about your situation and I cannot help your first question because I am English! BUT Someone who will definitely be able to help you is the “Glissando Harfenfachzentrum” (www.glissando.de), they are helping me to find a harp teacher in Leipzig as I may be spending some time there soon; trust me they are really nice and very helpful. I do know that in Trossingen you could study harp with Renie Yamahata, who I think plays for the S?dwest-Rundfunks Orkester and teaches at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, Maria Stange (Musikhochschule Stuttgart)who also sounds very good…just e-mail glissando,I’m sure they’ll help. Also try Die Vereinigung deutsche Harfenisten (www.harfe-vdh.de) who also have alot of people you can contact. I hope I have helped here, Anja, please let me know how your quest is going!
