{"id":52136,"date":"2025-01-22T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/933dc278-529a-42fe-ae4f-eeb1c288a4ce"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:10:32","slug":"review-handel-tailleferre-harp-concertos-berlin-phil","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/review-handel-tailleferre-harp-concertos-berlin-phil\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Handel &#038; Tailleferre Harp Concertos (Berlin Phil)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 22 January 2025 at 11:05 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p><strong>Handel \u2022 Tailleferre<\/strong><br\/> Handel: Harp Concerto; Tailleferre: Harp Concertino<br\/> Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp); Berlin Philharmonic\/Juanjo Mena<br\/><em>Berlin Phil BHPR25050 (digital)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a027:28 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"> <audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/CONCERTO-Tailleferre-Concertino-for-Harp-and-Orchestra-II.-Lento.mp3\"\/> <\/figure> <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Clip: Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra &#8211; II. Lento<\/h6> <p>This short and sweet digital release marries two showpieces for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/harp\">harp<\/a>, one very familiar the other rarely performed, and the latter is by far the more interesting one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/george-frideric-handel\">Handel\u2019<\/a>s harp concerto was a convivial trifle composed for the ode\u00a0<em>Alexander\u2019s Feast<\/em>, and Marie-Pierre Langlamet was captivated by it when she first heard it as a child. She regards it as a masterpiece and sees its architectonic shape in the form of fractals \u2013 patterns that repeat forever.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-alis-huws\">Who is the Royal Harpist?<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/hardest-instruments-to-play\">11 devilishly difficult instruments<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>She doesn\u2019t regret playing it on a modern instrument \u2013 the historically correct one, with its low string tension, would apparently be for her \u2018unplayable\u2019, but she relishes the greater dynamic range of a modern harp. She also likes the discipline that her instrument\u2019s repeating passages should never sound identical. The outer movements are certainly well-known, but the gently lachrymose\u00a0<em>Larghetto<\/em>\u00a0is a real\u00a0<em>trouvaille<\/em>.<\/p> <p>Meanwhile the prolific Germaine Tailleferre was persuaded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/gabriel-faure\">Gabriel Faur\u00e9<\/a> to take up composition, Ravel taught her orchestration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/charlie-chaplin-music\">Charlie Chaplin<\/a> was her four-hand companion, so it\u2019s no surprise that her Concertino for Harp and Orchestra should be enchanting: why on earth has it languished forgotten for the last hundred years? It allows Langlamet to exhibit her delicate virtuosity, but its main virtue lies in the kaleidoscopic brilliance of its orchestral effects, which proclaim her links with the Parisian composers known as\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/les-six-composers\">Les Six<\/a><\/em>. There are by turns Stravinskian, Bart\u00f3kian and Poulenc-style moments, and the whole thing feels liberated and improvised.\u00a0<em>Michael Church<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra \/ Langlamet \u00b7 Mena \u00b7 Berliner Philharmoniker\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-7I2JiVTH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra (Berlin Phil) <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Wednesday, 22 January 2025 at 11:05 AM Handel \u2022 Tailleferre Handel: Harp Concerto; Tailleferre: Harp Concertino Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp); Berlin Philharmonic\/Juanjo MenaBerlin Phil BHPR25050 (digital)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a027:28 mins\u00a0 Clip: Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra &#8211; II. 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