Composer: Alexander Glazunov, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergey Rachmaninov, Franz Peter Schubert, John Thomas, Albert Heinrich Zabel
Performer: Marielle Nordmann, Clara Izambert, Alexandra Luiceanu
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Evidence
Catalogue: EVCD050
Release: 2018
Size: 786 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Schubert: Barcarolle (Transcription de Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774 pour trio de harpes)
02. Schubert: Ständchen ‘Leise flehen meine Lieder’, D957 No. 4
03. Schubert: La Truite (Transcription de Die Forelle, Op. 32, D.550 pour trio de harpes)
04. Schubert: Marguerite (Transcription de Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D.118 pour duo de harpes)
05. Mendelssohn: Prélude, Op. 35 (Transcription pour harpe seule)
06. Mendelssohn: Romance sans parole, Op. 30, No. 7: Andante espressivo (Transcription pour harpe seule)
07. Thomas: Souvenir du Nord (Duo inspiré du Rossignol d’Alexandre Alabiev)
08. Zabel: Marguerite au rouet, Op. 19
Rachmaninov: Deux pièces à six mains
09. Valse (Transcription pour trio de harpes)
10. Romance (Transcription pour trio de harpes)
Thomas: Grand Duo de Harpes
11. Allegro con brio
12. Adagio
13. Allegro con spirito
14. Glazunov: Valse, Op. 43, No. 7 (Transcription pour trio de harpes)
Who said the harp was a wise and good-mannered girl instrument? Its timbre even more orchestral than that of the piano allows him on the contrary to venture into all the repertoires, in particular that of the romantic ones who does not stop pushing the expressive borders.
To serve the music, just the music, the great Marielle Nordmann defeats the clichés that associate the harp with caretaking parlor. Along with two of her brightest students, the talented Alexandra Luiceanu and Clara Izambert, she has written a record that brings together original works as well as transcriptions of Schubert’s lieder, romances by Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff – many of them are indebted to Liszt and also, unpublished ones, to the interpreters themselves.