Reflections - on a millennium of harps

Reflections - on a millennium of harps
Various performers
Academica 020505

Contents:

    Aliquando - Nancy Thym & Linda Doernbach (voice, drum)
  1. Anon., 9th c.: Freisinger Petruslied

    2. La Camerata de Paris - Elena Polonska & Isabelle Quellier (vielle, drum)
  2. Thibaut de Champagne: Puisk 'il M'estuet
  3. Anon., 12th c. lauda: Santo Lorenzo
  4. Anon., 13th c. Catalan troubadour: Amor Merce Non Sia
  5. Audefroid le Bâtard: Belle Doëtte
  6. Pons de Capdoill (fl.1190): Uns Gais Conors

    7. Linda Doernbach (w/ voice)
  7. Anon., England 13th c.: Worldes blis

    8. Stefan Battige
  8. CSM 384: A que por muy gran fremosura
    CSM: 123: De Santa Maria sinal qual xe quer

    9. Hilde Van Eyck (w/ voice)
  9. Anon., Catalania 13th c.: Quant ay lo mon
  10. Anon., Germany 14th c.: Myn Herteken is van sorgen frei
  11. Anon., France 15th c.: Hélas mon coeur

    12. Aliquando - Nancy Thym (w/ voice) & Linda Doernbach (voice, percussion)
  12. Llibre Vermell: Los set goyts

    13. Collage - Judy Kadar, Achim Blazejewski (drum), Klaus Sonnemann (shawm), Farhan Sabbagh ('ud)
  13. Guerardellus da Firenze: I'vo' bene
    Wolkenstein: Ain tunckle Farb

    14. Judy Kadar
  14. Landini: Bench' ora piova

    15. Collage - Judy Kadar, Achim Blazejewski (drum), Klaus Sonnemann (shawm), Elisabeth Neimann (voice)
  15. Anon., Sephardic: Bilbilicos

    16. Tetraktys - Christina Maria Cleary, Jill Feldman (voice), Kees Boeke (direction)
  16. Dufay: Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys

    17. Hannelore Devaere
  17. Pullois: Ob eenen Tyd
    Ockeghem: D'un aultre amer

    18. Almut Kirchner (w/ voice)
  18. Juan de la Encina: Romerico
  19. Mudarra: Triste estaba el Rey David
  20. Campion: When to her lute Corinna sings

    21. Elyma - Hannelore Devaere
  21. Monteverdi: Aria Possente Spirito

    22. Stefan Battige
  22. O'Carolan: Clergy's Lamentation

    23. ASNI
  23. Ruiz de Ribayaz: Zarambeques
  24. Ruiz de Ribayaz: Canarios

    25. Bill Taylor
  25. Robert ap Huw MS: Kaniad y gwynn bibydd
  26. George Skene MS: Gowd on your gartens, Marion

    27. ASNI & Gabrielle Bultmann (recorder)
  27. Bousset / Romain: Pourquoy, doux rossignol

    28. The Harp Consort - Andrew Lawrence-King
  28. Cabanilles: Corrente Italiana

    29. Riet Keppel
  29. Pescetti: Sonata in c minor - Moderato

    30. Brigitte Langnickel-Köhler & Reinhard Langnickel (pianoforte)
  30. Alessandro Rolla: Preludio e Variazioni Es-dur per pianoforte ed Arpa

    31. Nancy Thym (w/ voice)
  31. Christoph Pietzsch: Liebeskalender from "Ungeheuer Heiterkeit"
  32. Anon., 19th c.: Zigeunerkind

Playing time: 78'

Compilation date: 2005

Performers: As stated in contents, harpist in bold.

Recording sources:
[1], [7], [12] UniKonzert Vol. 6 Nobody knows all the songs
[2]-[6] Gallo 1071 Moyen Age
[8], [22] private release - Stefan Battige
[9]-[11] private release - Hilde Van Eyck
[13] private release - Musik aus drei Richtungen
[14] Apollon 11343 Blôzen
[15] private release - Jüdin von Toledo
[16] Olive Music 005 Dufay
[17] Klara 1427 Klara in Maaseik
[18]-[20] Verlag der Spielleute 9807 - Zur Harfe gesungen
[21] K617 066 La Favola d'Orfeo
[23], [24], [27] Scala Records - Rent a Nightingale
[25] Dorian 90260 - Two Worlds of the Welsh Harp
[26] Maggie's Music 220 Celtic Roots
[28] Harmonia Mundi USA 907293 - Missa Mexicana
[29] private release - The Single Action Harp
[30] private release - Es klinget so lieblich
[31], [32] live recordings - Wir wollen Brücke sein (October 2001 & May 2004)

As the title & contents suggest, this program contains a wide range of harp music, often with very different sonorities. There is also a brief discussion of harp history in the liner notes. The program was compiled by Nancy Thym, president of the International Historical Harp Society.

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Todd M. McComb