00:09 I. Allegretto 03:13 II. Lento 07:00 III. Perpetuum Mobile, Allegro Gaiement Thank you very much for the upload. I love harp music and Tailleferre. This great performance is a special treat to listen to.
Tailleferre’s finest work for harp. It is without doubt the most commonly recorded work written by this composer who was a member of Les Six. The evocative third movement is a tour de force This Tailleferre Sonata was commissioned by Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta. Unless I’m misremembering, it was composed in St. Tropez in 1953 and published in 1957 after which Zabaleta gave its premiere. I believe that it is dedicated to Zabaleta. The composer’s daughter, Francoise, told me a story regarding the moment when the composer found and opened the letter, not expecting part of the contents to fall from it to realize that upon picking up the the folded document-it was a check from Zabaleta as payment for the unsolicited commission. The final product turned out be proof of one of the more grateful flights of imagination on the part of an instrumentalist assuming the part of the patron, twentieth-century style.
'"Edited by Ksenia Erdely" as written in the sheet music. Ksenia Erdely is Russian, Soviet harpist, composer, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR (1966). She is considered the founder of the Soviet school of harp performance. In this video, the harpist dynasty plays, which includes Ksenia (an elderly lady, far right): ua-cam.com/video/varCMK8hDbg/v-deo.html And this is the music of Olga Erdely: ua-cam.com/channels/SlVb5AvU21jdE9Yv4DPybA.html
This is wonderful: for the past three or so decades, when I listen to the marvelous third movement (although most other versions play it far faster, as with Maria Graf), I consistently conjure that of a generalized beachscape, with blowing sand, beach grass, wile experiencing an inner sense of a dynamic euphoria. I was invited to a get-together in Paris at the apartment of Dr. Nicole Viossat who had in her possession a good portion of the original 18 short pieces that would eventually be collected and published, written while Tailleferre was a harp student of Madame Tardieu. It was written for pedagogic reasons for the students of Tardieu given the inherent limitations of study pieces of an imaginative nature for the solo harp. This set of homages has been published by Musik Fabrikk of Lagny, France.
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00:09 I. Allegretto
03:13 II. Lento
07:00 III. Perpetuum Mobile, Allegro Gaiement
Thank you very much for the upload. I love harp music and Tailleferre. This great performance is a special treat to listen to.
Everything she wrote was beautiful. A servant to music. Not all that incomprehensible virtuostic fiddling about. Wonderful.
Tailleferre’s finest work for harp. It is without doubt the most commonly recorded work written by this composer who was a member of Les Six. The evocative third movement is a tour de force This Tailleferre Sonata was commissioned by Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta. Unless I’m misremembering, it was composed in St. Tropez in 1953 and published in 1957 after which Zabaleta gave its premiere. I believe that it is dedicated to Zabaleta. The composer’s daughter, Francoise, told me a story regarding the moment when the composer found and opened the letter, not expecting part of the contents to fall from it to realize that upon picking up the the folded document-it was a check from Zabaleta as payment for the unsolicited commission. The final product turned out be proof of one of the more grateful flights of imagination on the part of an instrumentalist assuming the part of the patron, twentieth-century style.
'"Edited by Ksenia Erdely" as written in the sheet music. Ksenia Erdely is Russian, Soviet harpist, composer, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR (1966). She is considered the founder of the Soviet school of harp performance.
In this video, the harpist dynasty plays, which includes Ksenia (an elderly lady, far right): ua-cam.com/video/varCMK8hDbg/v-deo.html
And this is the music of Olga Erdely: ua-cam.com/channels/SlVb5AvU21jdE9Yv4DPybA.html
Interesting backstory. :)
How lovely
Lovely!! Glad I got to drop in for a bit :D
Summer sings!
This is wonderful: for the past three or so decades, when I listen to the marvelous third movement (although most other versions play it far faster, as with Maria Graf), I consistently conjure that of a generalized beachscape, with blowing sand, beach grass, wile experiencing an inner sense of a dynamic euphoria. I was invited to a get-together in Paris at the apartment of Dr. Nicole Viossat who had in her possession a good portion of the original 18 short pieces that would eventually be collected and published, written while Tailleferre was a harp student of Madame Tardieu. It was written for pedagogic reasons for the students of Tardieu given the inherent limitations of study pieces of an imaginative nature for the solo harp. This set of homages has been published by Musik Fabrikk of Lagny, France.
giga based