Caroline Léonardelli releases a modern romantic classical harp album featuring Canadian composer Marjan Mozeitch and 20th Century French compositions. Solo harp with the exception of El Dorado which features the Penderecki String Quartet and Joel Quarrington on bass. This recording has received a 2010 Juno nomination for Classical Album of the Year - Solo or Chamber Ensemble.
Review from WholeNote Magazine!
El Dorado
Ottawa-based harpist Caroline Léonardelli’s fourth album to date offers an enticing mix of old and new: a program of beloved French standards by Debussy, Tournier and Damase book-ended by compositions by Canada’s leading composer for the harp.
Reviews:
“A piquant potpourri of harp music tempered by melancholy expression... Léonardelli is a skilled musician.”
– Gramophone Magazine, November 2009
Léonardelli’s sensitive voicing and phrasing in Song of Nymphs (also a Mozetich composition) sets the interpretive standard. It doesn’t get much better than this for solo musicianship or recorded sound.
- The Music Scene - Spring 2009
Song of Nymphs, in an exceptionally scintillating performance
The WholeNote Magazine
"remarkable musicianship"
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