This beautiful solo wire-strung harp recording by Ann Heymann is a "must" for anyone interested in the wire-strung harp tradition. This is music which would have been heard in the courts of Irish princes or Scottish chieftains by a sophisticated and cultured audience educated in the subtlety of musical form and ornamentation of the bardic traditions. The clarity of the melodic line and its decoration, as well as the strong harmonic support, is produced by Ann’s virtuosic stopping technique, which defines those strings which are left to ring, or silences those notes which would clash or muddy the harmonies.
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