Carl Swanson

While most standard harp repertoire today consists mainly of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century pieces and keyboard transcriptions, this valuable collection features music originally written for t...

Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose is arguably one of the most well-known and well-loved of Ravel's works. Whether one encounters it first in its original iteration for piano, four hands, or in the sweeping...

Since their composition in 1904, Debussy's Danses sacree et profane are among the most frequently programmed of all of Debussy's works. The piece was originally written for chromatic harp, and the leg...

Marcel Tournier (1879-1951) was one of the most important harpists/composers in the history of the harp. During his long career, he added a significant catalog of very beautiful works to the harp repe...

The years between 1900 and 1925 in Paris were some of the most fruitful in the history of harp repertoire. Debussy's 'Danses sacree et profane' and his 'Sonate pour flute, alto, et harpe,' Caplet's 'M...