Sarah Brady - Nebraska Impromptu - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A common genre on the piano since Franz Schubert, there are far fewer impromptus for the harp than one might think. Sarah O'Brien, longtime principal harpist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Munich Philharmonic, presents here a compendium of all impromptus for harp. She has collected both well-known works and surprising rarities, which she supplements with 20th-century compositions and spices up with a few 18th-century gems that are also ideally suited as arrangements for her instrument.

Impromptu - Works By The Young Signe Lund is the last of two albums featuring the composer's total output for piano. The first one, InchÉtudespoétiquesInch (LWC1196), was released in 2020. The works on this recording date from the years of Signe Lund's youth up to her breakthrough around 1900. Piano music that could not be included for lack of space is available on the digital Malgré moi accessible on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal and other digital platforms. Rune Alver has many years of experience performing Grieg's music at the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen. He maintains an extensive concert schedule as soloist and chamber musician with performances throughout Europe and in Russia, China and South Africa. In 2013 he per-formed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Rune Alver collaborates with leading musicians, actors and visual artists in traditional and more experimental contexts. He has recorded a number of critically acclaimed albums, among them the complete piano works of Johannes M. Rivertz and David Monrad Johansen. Album Tracks 1. Vals Op. 1 2. To Klaverstykker Op. 2 3. Sanger Uten Ord Op. 3 4. Norske Folkemelodier 5. To Brudeslaatter Fra Sundfjord 6. Baansull Fra Førde 7. Sundfjord 8. Huldresull Fra Opdal 9. Baansull Fra Sundfjord 10. Halling Fra Førde 11. Sundfjord 12. Bruremarsch Fra Sundmøre 13. Gjeitelokk Fra Bræim 14. Nordfjord 15. Halling Fra Førde 16. Sundfjord 17. Fire Klaverstykker 18. Et Kjærlighetsdikt 19. Tvivl. Han Langsomt, Dvælende 20. Svar. Hun JÆVNT Bevæget, Ligesom Beroligende 21. Svundne Dage Klaverstykker Hefte 1 22. Om Morgenen 23. Det Spøger! 24. Vemod 25. Lykke Over Lykke 26. Svundne Dage Klaverstykker Hefte 2 27. Smaagutternes Flag-Marsch 28. Det Tabte Paradis 29. Vildkat 30. Idyl 31. Vals-Capricer 32. Snapshots for Klaver 33. Scherzi for Klaver

What makes Olivier Messiaen's œuvre so special is, to a great extent, his ability to coalesce various influences, inspirations, and convictions into a wholly individual and perfectly coherent musical language. This includes the development of the modal harmonies of earlier centuries as much as it does an engagement with rhythms from non-European traditions. The wealth of colors in his works stems, in part, from Messiaen's synaesthetic ability to perceive chords as various shapes and colors. As an enthusiastic ornithologist, he spent much time in nature, notating birdsong and then working those, in stylized form, into his compositions. But most importantly, Messiaen's work is governed by his profound faith. Messiaen once said of himself that he didn't primarily see himself as a composer but as an Inchornithologist and rhythmistInch. Album Tracks 1. Les Offrandes Oubliées = the Forgotten Offerings 2. Poèmes Pour Mi (= Poems for Mi) - Version FÜR Sopran Und Orchestra (= Version for Soprano and Orchestra) 3. Chronochromie - Pour Grand Orchestra (= for Large Orchestra)