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I love this song as well. Do you play it with her fingering? I only stopped making mistakes when I got rid of her fingering. The muffling in the second bit was interesting to learn as well. On her cd it sounds like a percussive buzz which was difficult to replicate since we are used to attempting to minimize buzz.
I think it is the same piece from Brother Sun Sister Moon-do a search on youtube under that name to listen to a few different versions to make sure it is the same, if so there is sheet music everywhere for it.
Here’s one you may not have seen with many recordings I haven’t seen elsewhere.
http://www.amazon.com/Harp-Dreamlike-Strain-Angelo-Bovio/dp/B000222YGY
It is full of Victorian pieces, very lovely. It includes pieces by Felix Godefroid, Charles Oberthur and John Balsir Chatterton as well as Bovio and Lorenzi.
and…I just checked out the link posted and it is their version! I had no idea she was publishing it. Too bad I don’t know 3 other harpists to play it with!
I too have been looking for a solo version ever since hearing /watching this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2gus37mV4Make sure you watch using your computer on open networks, for example at a barnes and noble or starbucks, or your local library. Anyone with access to the network (which is everyone..it is open after all) can see any info you tap into while on the network…so if you log into your email account and do not have appropriate protections on your computer a hacker can hijack your entier email account, sent email to everyone on your lists, and use your email address to send out spam.
You can see more info about this here-
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-149778.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_securityAs far as I know there is no version for harp but the piano versions of his works are not too difficult to play around with.
My favorite book is Whitney Dobyns Christmas Present. It has lovely and different versions of In the Bleak Midwinter, Silent Night, The First Noel, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, Still, Still, Still, The Holly and the Ivy.
I make perfumes and lotions and I can tell you both frangrance oils and alcohols can take the finish off of anything. I dropped about a teaspoon full of FO onto my wood floor and it now has a very unsightly stain where the varnish lifted up. Your best bet is to wash your hands and wrists thorougly before playing using a simple unfragranced bar of soap. Wash thourougly with the soap several times (soap up, rinse, soap up rinse). Even if you think you are using unscented lotion unless it says no fragrance oils or it is specificly formulated to be unfragranced (as with a lotion formulated for people with allergies) you can not assume the lotion has no fragrance oil. Look on the back of the bottle, if there is any fragrance most larger companies actually abide by the FDA’s regulations regarding INCI labeling and will tell you but if you bought it from a small company or arts and crafts festival (or sometimes places like whole foods-so much inappropriately labeled stuff there), you are out of luck and should just not use it without washing it all off before touching your harp. I also keep a soft cloth next to the harp. As soon as I am done playing I rub up and down the sound board and down the sides to make sure there are not oils left from my skin on the harp.Even if you use no lotion if you use shampoo, cologone, fragranced soaps, or antibacterial gel all have fragrance oils and alcohols that can impact finishes.
