Marcel Grandjany
Marcel Grandjany's harp music favours colour and bloom: broad glissandi, singing lines and the instrument's full resonance. Automne is marked by the rich, luscious glissandi that sit at the heart of his writing for the solo harp.
A French-born harpist who composed and arranged from inside the instrument, he belongs with the player-composers who enlarged the modern solo repertoire. His pieces sit in the European art-music line that includes Henriette Renié and other harpists writing for their own medium: idiomatic, sonorous and built for the concert platform. Beside original works he arranged widely, feeding the teaching and recital stock performers still reach for.
Compositions by Marcel Grandjany appear on
Automne: Changing Colours of Harp Music
From classical to folk, from sweeping glissandi to the strikingly contemporary, the range and diversity of the harp always entrances and amazes.
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