A Celebration for Harp

Nancy Allen (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B000002SDH
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,939 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Toccata for keyboard

2. French Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in E major, BWV 817 (BC L24): Courante

3. Sonata for keyboard in E major, K. 380 (L. 23) 'Cortège'

4. Lute Dances (3) for harp, Nos 1-3, complete: Courante

5. Lute Dances (3) for harp, Nos 1-3, complete: Pavane

6. Lute Dances (3) for harp, Nos 1-3, complete: Bransles

7. Le Coucou, rondeau for harpsichord in E minor (Pièces de clavecin, Suite No. 3)

8. Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 3 for orchestra, Op. 101: Aubade

9. Sonata for flute & keyboard in E flat major, BWV 1031: Siciliano

10. Sonata for violin & keyboard No. 2 in A major, BWV 1015: Andante

11. Pieces (10) for piano, Op. 12: No 7, Prelude

12. Ancient Airs and Dances, Set 3, arrangements (4) for strings, P. 172: Siciliana

13. Sonata for keyboard in B flat major, K. 545 (L. 500)

14. Second livre des pièces de clavecin, for harpsichord: 6th Order, No 05 'Les Baricades Mistérieuses'

15. Sonata for keyboard in A major, K. 208 (L. 238): Andante e cantabile

16. Sonata for keyboard in A major, K. 208 (L. 238): Allegro

17. Sonata for keyboard in G major, K. 566 (L. 209) (poss. spurious): K.209

18. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (I), chorale prelude for organ (Orgel-Büchlein No. 41), BWV 639 (BC K68)

19. Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben,' BWV 147 (BC A174): Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully thought-out programme and stunning playing, April 17, 2007

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Laraine A. Barker "Laraine A Barker" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Celebration for Harp (Audio CD)

I bought this CD (with slight trepidation) because I was sure I would enjoy most of the music. The trepidation was only because, having discovered the inimitable Andrew Lawrence-King, I wasn't sure how the sound of the modern harp would stack up against his amazing instruments and the even more amazing range of sounds he gets from them. But I needn't have worried. Nancy Allen makes a beautiful, if mostly conventional, sound on her modern harp and her virtosity takes away one's breath. Her articulation is possibly the cleanest of any player of the modern harp I've heard and her sense of rhythmn is faultless. I'm no fan at all of modern music but I even enjoyed the two pieces by Prokofiev on this CD. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Well, I wrote the above review three years ago and this CD remains one of my favourites. I do wish Ms Allen would record more. The two movements from Bach's sixth French suite remain my favourite performances of these pieces. If Ms Allen was able to transcribe all six suites I'd certainly buy the resulting CDs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nancy Allen, April 16, 2007

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1JoeKathy (Claremore, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Celebration for Harp (Audio CD)

Nancy Allen is the best harpist in the world and this CD reflects that.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celestial, December 21, 2007

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David Conner (Austin Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Celebration for Harp (Audio CD)

My CD library looks like it might sit well on the shelf of a music appreciation course of a juniour college in the seventies, with sections representing pop, blues, rock, and classical. Some country, some ragas and talas. Notably there is no Hawaiian msic Probably not unlike a lot of collections.

I have listened to this CD at least a hundred times, and it remains a favorite. Nancy's performance is both technical and soulful.

As I tell my friends, this is truly the music of heaven.