Claudia Lucia Lamanna - Claudia Lucia Lamanna (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series) (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Carnaval de Venise, Op. 184
02. Variations sur un thème dans le style ancien, Op. 30
03. Variations on a Theme of Paganini
04. Variaciones del fandango español (Arr. for Harp)
05. Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona (Arr. for Harp)

Claudia Lucia Lamanna makes her recording debut, as part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series, with a harp recital built around the leitmotif of variation.

The album opens with three masterpieces of the harp repertoire: the majestic Godefroid’s Carnival of Venice, the virtuoso Mchedelov’s Variations on a theme of Paganini and Salzedo’s Variations on a theme in the ancient style, performed here in its full, original and seldom heard version. Lamanna has arranged a charming work by the eighteenth-century Spanish composer Félix Máximo López, the Variaciones del fandango español, which was originally written for fortepiano; this composition has only recently been rediscovered and this new arrangement represents a fresh new addition to the harp repertoire. The album closes with Bach’s sublime Chaconne which Lamanna has adapted, from the harp transcription made by Dewey Owens, to create a version free from the more romantic elements and closer in style and intention to the original version for solo violin.

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