BERNARD ANDRÈS (b. 1941)

Music for Harp

 

Le seigneur des Amin, concerto for harp & orchestra*

Le Verger des Grenades, for Bassoon, String Quartet & harp# 

Les danses d’Erzulie, for harp, strings & percussion

 

Rachel Talitman (hp.),  Luc Loubry (bn.),  The Sablon String Quartet#,  Samuel Lison (ten.*)

Lorenzo Mancini (bar.*),  Il Sono / Bram Wolf

 

A composer-harpist is something of a rarity, but Bernard Andrès is well-known in his native France, and this enterprising disc from Rachel Talitman and friends gives us first recordings of three delightful concertante works, all written in a very accessible idiom but with something definitely different about each of them.

 

Harp & Company 505009