Close-up: The harp takes centre stage

Date & Time

Sun, Mar 9, 2025, 14:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Recital Hall (Amsterdam)

In this Close-up concert, the harp takes centre stage. The orchestra’s principal harpist Petra van der Heide and other Concertgebouw Orchestra musicians will be treating you to chamber works for various instrumental combinations. In a colourful series of compositions, the harp takes on an ever-different character – Romantic in Fauré’s Fantaisie for flute and harp, virtuoso in César Franck’s Prelude, Fugue and Variations, more supporting in Isang Yun’s Novellette, dreamy in Pierné’s Impromptu-caprice. Two works by Debussy, the kaleidoscopic Sonata... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music

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Musicians

Petra van der Heide	Harp
Anneleen Schuitemaker	Harp
Kersten McCall	Flute
Michael Gieler	Viola

Program

Prélude, fugue et variation in b minor, op. 18	César Franck
Fantaisie	Gabriel Fauré
Sonata for flute, viola and harp, L. 137	Claude Debussy
Impromptu-caprice in A-flat major	Pierné
Ciphers	Wennäkoski
Danse sacrée et danse profane	Claude Debussy
Harpicide at Midnight	Chertok

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