This is dedicated to the remarkable Russian harpist Tatiana Tower who became a musical legend of Leningrad. Born in Moscow in 1945 she started playing harp at the age of four on the advice of her aunt , soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. She studied at the Gnessin College, and at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1969 she won the first International Harp Competition in Hartford, USA, and became a prize winner of international music festivas of Latin America. In 1968, Tatiana Tower’s life took a momentous turn – she became soloist of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra headed by Evgeny Mravinsky

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Recordings of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Recording Studio at the Leningrad Capella Concert Hall in 1978 (Tr. 1-8, 13) and 1984 (Tr. 9, 10-12, 14-15).