Cristina Bianchi – Harp: Scarlatti & more
The award-winning Italian harpist Cristina Bianchi
has been exploring the works of Domenico Scarlatti
for many years, and on this album she demonstrates
for the listener the inexhaustible wealth of his
compositions. The programme’s other titles are largely
unknown, or rarely performed on harp: Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach’s Twelve Variations on the Folie
d’Espagne, for example, and the Harp Sonata by
Germaine Tailleferre. There’s also a real treasure in
the Three Préludes by Alexander Baltin, a
contemporary Russian composer. Stylistically, his
very personal musical idiom reflects the great Russian
musical tradition.