Gabriel Pierne:
Impromptu-caprice, Op. 9

Francois Couperin:
Le Tic-Toc-Choc (arr. Sarah O’Brien)

Jean Cras:
Deux impromptus pour harpe

Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Suite e-Moll (arr. Sarah O’Brien)
Suite G-Dur/g-Moll

Paul Hindemith:
Sonate für Harfe

Joaquin Rodrigo:
Impromptu para arpa

Reinhold Gliere:
Impromptu

Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz:
Impromptu pour la ha

Domenico Scarlatti:
Sonate E-Dur, K 380 (arr. Sarah O’Brien)

Nino Rota:
Sarabanda e Toccata per arpa

Virgilio Mortari:
Sonatina prodigio

Albert Roussel:
Impromptu, Op. 21

Gabriel Faure:
Impromptu Des-Dur, Op. 86

Finally, a compendium featuring the complete impromptus for harp. Sarah O’Brien has brought together the well-known works and surprising rarities, enriched with twentieth-century compositions and seasoned with French and Italian jewels from the eighteenth century. Originals and arrangements, ideally suited to the harp.

The two great Romantic harp impromptus by Gabriel Pierné and Gabriel Fauré, highlights of the genre, mark the beginning and end of this very special musical journey through the centuries. Between these Romantic “parentheses”, we discover worlds of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Sarah O’Brien has arranged Baroque music by Couperin, Rameau, and Scarlatti for her instrument, while also presenting original works written before and after the Second World War – and which themselves hark back to the Baroque era: Jean Cras, Paul Hindemith, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Guy Ropartz draw on old forms such as the canzone, toccata, and sarabande, infusing them with new life.

A diverse compendium of the solo literature for harp – with a variety of sonorities that is both surprising and refreshing.

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Recording: Alte Kirche Fautenbach (Achern), June 29 – August 02, 2020.