Music for harp

[KevinP]

How far away is the nearest company that sells them?  Or is their an instructor with whom you could take some lessons have several different ones that s/he would let you try playing on?

Some movement on this front. I talked to a violinist friend, and while she doesn't know any harpist directly, she knows someone who knows someone. The trick is finding someone who speaks English with a reasonable degree of confidence as I live in Korea.

Frankly, I'm a teach-myself kind of guy and have been told I resist instruction (and can recall instances where I indeed did), but I'd like to think that was a trait of a younger me. My friend is insistent that I talk to a teacher before I buy, and it's hard to argue with the logic.

On the CD front, I've bought quite a few of the titles mentioned above and plan to buy more after spending more time with these.

Without looking at my collection at the moment, I have the following. Most are recent purchases but a few had been hiding on my shelves.

Milhaud
Ginestera
Gliere
Alwyn
Mathias
Tischenko
Dohnányi
Hindemith (Harp Sonata)
Hovhaness
Jongen
Rautavaara (Concerto and Ballade)
Reinecke
Rodrigo (various concerti)
Tveitt
Villa-Lobos
Ravel's Introduction and Allegro
Mosolov
Lofstrum
Yun Isang
Boieldieu
Higdon

The Sarah O'Brien disc

(And while we're at it, Alice Coltrane)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Some movement on this front. I talked to a violinist friend, and while she doesn't know any harpist directly, she knows someone who knows someone. The trick is finding someone who speaks English with a reasonable degree of confidence as I live in Korea.

Frankly, I'm a teach-myself kind of guy and have been told I resist instruction (and can recall instances where I indeed did), but I'd like to think that was a trait of a younger me. My friend is insistent that I talk to a teacher before I buy, and it's hard to argue with the logic.

On the CD front, I've bought quite a few of the titles mentioned above and plan to buy more after spending more time with these.

Without looking at my collection at the moment, I have the following. Most are recent purchases but a few had been hiding on my shelves.

Milhaud
Ginestera
Gliere
Alwyn
Mathias
Tischenko
Dohnányi
Hindemith (Harp Sonata)
Hovhaness
Jongen
Rautavaara (Concerto and Ballade)
Reinecke
Rodrigo (various concerti)
Tveitt
Villa-Lobos
Ravel's Introduction and Allegro
Mosolov
Lofstrum
Yun Isang
Boieldieu
Higdon

The Sarah O'Brien disc

(And while we're at it, Alice Coltrane)

Thanks for the update!

PD

[pjme]

https://www.youtube.com/v/fG-5yQ_CDm0

At least interesting.... Never heard of this Danish composer.

https://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/artists/martin-stauning

[KevinP]

My newest addition to the collection.

[KevinP]

It's not just me, right? I haven't heard the piece (though I studied with the composer), but it's out of place on this particular programme, isn't it?

[BWV 1080]