Yolanda Kondonassis has played a lot of contemporary harp concertos. Her new recording, American Rapture, features the world premiere of one written especially for her by American composer Jennifer ...

This carefully programmed disc concentrates on the works Mozart produced during his sojourn in Paris in the spring of 1778, a period that was a major turning point in his life in several ways. It saw ...

Yolanda Kondonassis. Photo by Robert Muller. When it comes to the harp, Yolanda Kondonassis is kind of a big deal. She's literally written the book on the topic. In this episode, she teaches all about ...

There is a wonderful scene – one of many – in the 1984 Milos Forman film adaptation of Peter Schaffer’s play Amadeus, in which the jealous Salieri sees the score of Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto ...

Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2 François Lazarevitch, Flute Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra Sandrine Chatron, Harp François Lazarevitch, Flute Les Musiciens ...

The French harpist turns his attention to works by Reinhold Glière and his pupil Alexander Mosolov, the latter a first recording Xavier de Maistre – with Cologne's WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by ...

Harp concertos are perhaps a niche market, but Elizabeth Hainen’s performances merit wider attention. Judiciously accompanied by the Bulgarian orchestra, she plays a graceful G minor concerto by Elias ...

Tucson native Claire Thai wanted to show a different side to the harp when she composed her Harp Concerto for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. The first movement of the two-movement work casts the ...

This year the BBC Proms highlights some fantastic and extraordinary concertos, musical works for an instrumental soloist and an orchestra or ensemble. From Shostakovich to Mozart, and Vivaldi to new ...