Douceur, romantisme et tendresse caractérisent cette pièce dédiée à ma fille Coline. Le juste équilibre entre main droite et main gauche est nécessaire pour donner toute son expressivité à la mélodie. Celle-ci se déploie sur une harmonie et une forme classiques utilisant des moyens musicaux variés : modulations (maitrise des pédales), équivalences rythmiques, changements de métrique et de tempo. / Harpe Solo

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. A majestic and lively Suite For Harp by Suffolk's greatest composer. The first performance was given by Osian Ellis, who the work is dedicated to, at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 1969. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Répertoire / Harpe

oeuvre commandée par la Communauté d'agglomération Grand Paris Sud-Ouest à l'attention de ses conservatoires de musique, notamment le C.R.R. de Boulogne-Billancourt.Sur quatre notes, Ré-Mi-Sol-Lab, un chantonnement épisodique parcourt la pièce en arrière-plan. Dessus va se greffer un geste ascendant, un peu solennel, sous forme de phrases qui couvriront toute l'étendue de l'instrument, et dont les doubles sons au débit régulier devront respecter bientôt un accelerando et un crescendo. En contraste, un autre élément, au caractère souple, mélodique et expressif, décrit des courbes de direction descendante. Celles-ci surgissent à partir de deux notes fixes, Do#-Sib, qui reviennent obstinément, comme un signal. Deux cheminements évoluent donc dans des directions opposées, en s'entrecoupant l'un l'autre. Un jeu d'échos s'établit à partir de ces composants, et les met en perspective.La pièce demande de la part de l'interprète un jeu très coloré, avec une palette de nuances aussi diversifiée que possible.A l'écoute de cette musique, on ne doit pas percevoir de pulsation forte et mécanique.Les sons évoluent comme ceux de la nature, de façon souple. / Harpe Celtique Seule

Par TOURNIER MARCEL. Composed for Pedal Harp, Vers La Source Dans Le Bois is a piece for advanced players composed by Marcel Tournier. Including some pedal changes, the piece starts played by the right hand interpreting the water coming from the fountain, with really fast notes giving a feeling of an enchanted world. The left hand completes this part with natural harmonies and the piece then follows with glissandi before coming back to the initial theme. This melodious piece is really gracious and will be nice to play and to listen to. Marcel Tournier (1879-1951) was a French harpist, composer and professor, whowrote many pieces that are now part of the repertoire and that extended the technical capacities of this instrument./ Répertoire / Harpe

The composer writes: 'This piece was composed using as its basis the compositional technique of serialism in which a fixed series of notes are used to make the harmonic and melodic base of a piece. I looked at the twelve Munro???s on the Isle of Skye known as The Cuillin and used their height???s to get the twelve notes required in serialism. The tallest is Sg?rr Alasdair at 992 meters and Sg?rr a??? Mhadaidh is the shortest at 918 meters. I added together the number of meters to get a single number that could be related to a note in the scale. I wrote down the scale I had chosen and assigned each Cuillin a note the heights of the Cuillin gave me the order which gave me the tune Iuse. I decided not to use a conventional scale so I put on my B and F levers which gives the scale a darker colour that I feel matches the mystery of the Cuillin. Although the technique used to achieve the scale is serial the piece itself cannot be described as a serial piece and I have allowed the music to develop more freely and organically than a system would allow.'

Collection-Christopher Norton is well-known throughout the world for his compositions for piano particularly the Microjazz series published by Boosey and Hawkes and Connections for Piano published by 80 Days Publishing. His music is popular with piano students as well as professional performers because he writes well for the piano has a subtle blend of jazz pop and classical influences and has a distinctive style of writing that appeals to a wide range of audiences. 'The nine pieces in this book are from my Jazz and Latin Preludes for solo piano beautifully transcribed and arranged for the pedal harp by Savourna Stevenson. Iâ''m so pleased that these pieces are available to acompletely new group of instrumentalists. Enjoy!'

The composer writes: 'This volume constitutes new works written for pedal harp alongside some pieces reworked from my earlier volume of the same name for lever harp which lended themselves equally well to the pedal environment. As with the the former works these aim to exploit the idiosyncrasies of the instrument while opening up new technical challenges to the player within a stylistically familiar environment. Nocturne 2 for example explores rolled chords and balance of melody over an active accompaniment whilst Sunny Sunday plays with irregular time signatures and shifting accents and Tara???s Dream Waltz challenges your pedaling and explores more exotic sonorities. Ihope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed writing them !'