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This is dedicated to the remarkable Russian harpist Tatiana Tower who became a musical legend of Leningrad. Born in Moscow in 1945 she started playing harp at the age of four on the advice of her aunt , soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. She studied at the Gnessin College, and at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1969 she won the first International Harp Competition in Hartford, USA, and became a prize winner of international music festivas of Latin America. In 1968, Tatiana Tower’s life took a momentous turn – she became soloist of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra headed by Evgeny Mravinsky
| Valery Kikta (b. 1941): Frescoes of St. Sophia of Kiev (Harp Concerto), |
| Op.50 (1972) [24:09] |
| 1. Ornament I 2:41 2. The Beast Attacks the Horseman 1:50 |
| 3. Ornament II 0:58 |
| 4. Group Portrait of Yaroslav the Wise’s Daughters 2:58 |
| 5. St. Michael’s Aisle 3:46 6. Mummers Wrestling 2:07 |
| 7. Musician. Wandering Clowns 8:46 8. Ornament III 0:59 |
| 9. Fantasy on Tchaikovsky’s opera Queen of Spades (1982) [10:12] |
| Alberto Ginastera (1916-83): Harp Concerto, Op.25 (1956) [22:37] |
| 10. Allegro 8:52 11. Molto Moderato06:14 |
| 12. Liberamento capriccioso 07:31 |
| Claude Debussy (1862-1918) |
| 13. Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane for harp & strings (1904) [9:14] |
| Ekaterina Walter-Kühne (1870-1930) |
| 14. Fantasy on Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin[6:51] |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-93) |
| 15. On the Troika (from The Seasons), arr. Xenia Erdely [3:11] |
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