MARIKO ANRAKU AND FRIENDS

 

Mariko Anraku, harp

Avalon String Quartet

Michael Parloff, flute

Patrick Messina, clarinet

Elliott Forrest, narrator

 

Program

Program Notes

 

Sunday - 5 October 2003 - at 3:00 pm

 

Marcel Grandjany                    Aria in Classic Style

for harp and string quartet

 

Gabriel Fauré                          Impromptu, Opus 86, for solo harp

 

André Caplet                           Conte Fantastique

for harp, string quartet,

and narrator,

                                                            based on Edgar Allen Poe’s

“The Masuqe of the Red Death”

 

INTERMISSION

 

Joseph Jongen                        Concerto a cinq, Opus 71,

                                                            for flute, violin, viola, cello,

                                                            and harp

 

Maurice Ravel                         Introduction and Allegro

                                                            for flute, clarinet,

string quartet and harp.

 

exquisite music - superbly performed