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Therese Honey – Branle de la Torche
Therese is playing a reproduction of the 17th C. “Boston Harp”, currently in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The replica was built by Catherine Campbell, Port Townsend, Washington.
This arrangement of the popular Torche Branle by Praetorius can be found in Therese’s book “The Royale Harpist”. You can watch more of Therese’s performances (of both early and Celtic music) here.
Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp (mvt 1: Pastorale)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIG2zjRJP9A
Live in concert: Anna Gurzuly, flute. Cornelia Smaczny, harp. Karl Suske, viola.
Sarah Deere-Jones: Celtic Harp, Cornwall
According to phatombagpiper:
Estren & Porthlystry are 2 traditional tunes from Cornwall. They are featured in Sarah’s Cornish Tunes book from www.cornwallharpcentreshop.co. uk
Cynthia Cathcart on Wire Harp: New Claret Duet
This piece can be found on Cynthia’s CD ‘Alchemy of a Rose’ (which I highly recommend). Not only is Cynthia an extremely accomplished wire harp player, she has also put out several excellent method & repertoire books for wire harp. You can visit her website at cynthiacathcart.net
Harpo Marx playing classics
Along with his inimitable charm, Harpo Marx had truly mad harp skillz – and, hands down, the best comedic timing of any harpist to date.
The Wrong Trousers Rock Lestats
I just can’t get enough of these kids. Although it’s hard to find YouTube videos of them with any kind of decent sound quality (believe it or not, this is one of the better ones). One of my favourite performances of theirs is a street performance of Video Killed the Radio Star that we posted earlier here. The official Wrong Trousers MySpace page can be found here.
Masters of the Celtic Harp
Grainne Hambly and William Jackson. Presented by the Blue Ridge Irish Music School on Saturday March 31st, 2007. The music is lovely; although it’s too bad you can’t see Grainne’s hands when she’s playing. Warning: Occasional shaky cam action.
Vincenzo Zitello in concert: playing two harps at once
Update February 2009: Found a version of this concert on YouTube, so I was able to embed it below. Enjoy!
Playing two harps at once is quite a feat; but doing it well is even more impressive. You can learn more about Vincenzo Zitello by visiting his website: http://www.vincenzozitello.it
Heartland Harps & Ann Haymann’s “Planxty Cruit”
No, this isn’t an endorsement of Heartland Harps (although I would love to have one of my own, if space and finances weren’t so tight). It is, however, a lovely rendition of Planxty Cruit on wire harp performed by Ann Haymann. And they are very pretty harps. Maybe it will inspire you to come up with some Celtic decorations of your own!