HAYDN AND THE HARP
Music by Haydn, Krumpholtz, Ragué, ...

Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1766-1813)
01 The favorite air of Robin Adair (arranged for the harp)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
02 The inspired Bard (vivace)

Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818)
03 The Ancient Harmony (andante)

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz (1747-1790)
04 Andante du celèbre Haydn (arrangé pour la harpe, avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum)

Franz Joseph Haydn
05 The Ancient Harmony (andante)

Louis-Charles Ragué (1744-after 1793)
X Symphonie d’Haydn arrangée pour la harpe (avec accompagnement de Violon)
06 Adagio – Allegro
07 Adagio con variatione
08 Vivace

Joseph Eloüis (1752-?)
09 Prelude

Exupère de La Maniere (18th century)
10 Roxolane d’Haydn arrangé par la harpe

Franz Joseph Haydn
11 Towyn Castle (andante)
12 The Rising of the Lark (allegretto grazioso)
13 Reged. The Fairy Banquet (andantino)

Sophia Dussek (1775-1831)
14 God preserve the Emperor (adagio)

Franz Joseph Haydn
15 Robin Adair (Irish song)

Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789-1856)
16 Petite Mosaique sur La Creation d’Haydn (contenant les plus celebres melodies di cette oratorio)

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About this album

For her first solo outing on Glossa, entitled Haydn and the harp, Chiara Granata presents a gorgeous demonstration, full of elegance and refinement, of the importance of the harp in the Classical era – and of Franz Joseph Haydn’s significant contribution to its development. Granata’s selection demonstrates how composers strove to get the most out of the harp by pushing for experimental technical demands without forcing its sound or calling for unnatural tempi; this was often with Haydn being involved in providing advice to composers and performers alike.

As further witnesses of Haydn’s penchant for the harp Chiara Granata includes in her programme a selection of folk melodies from the British Isles arranged by the composer, then (in Stendhal’s words) “full of glory and year”. Here she is joined by countertenor Raffaele Pe, violinist Anaïs Chen and cellist Marco Ceccato. Other composers utilized Haydn’s compositions as inspiration for their own, as can be heard in Nicolas-Charles Bochsa’s Petite Mosaique sur La Creation d’Haydn or even made arrangements of his symphonies, such as was the case with Louis-Charles Ragué.

Chiara Granata (a pupil of that treasured Glossa artist, Mara Galassi) plays two instruments built at the time of the compositions making up this delightful programme: a Holtzman harpe à crochet and a single-action harp by Naderman, the latter employed for the solo tour de force that is Boscha’s Petite Mosaique.