{"id":30013,"date":"2022-07-28T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/?p=30013"},"modified":"2022-07-29T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:03:21","slug":"the-world-harp-congress-cardiff-day-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/en\/news\/the-world-harp-congress-cardiff-day-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Harp Congress, Cardiff: day six!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day six at the World Harp Congress has stood out for the Camac team through its beautiful classical recitals on the one hand, and brilliant discovery of Wales and Welsh history on the other – with some gipsy swing in the middle!<\/p>\n

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Florence Sitruk<\/p><\/div>\n

Florence Sitruk’s solo recital took us on a musical voyage throughout Europe, from Italy (Pescetti, Scarlatti), Vienna (Mozart), Spain (Mudarra, Albeniz), France (Debussy, Tournier), Austria (Schubert) and Belgium (Godefroid). In her introductions to the pieces, Florence also stressed that a precious thing about the WHC is how, travelling to a different country each time, it brings old friends and creates new ones from all over the world. She also pointed out that this WHC is attended by a wonderful number of young harpists, and that the next generation would surely lead us to many more beautiful countries in the course of subsequent events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly after Florence’s recital and showing no signs of flagging after conducting four concerti the night before, Sylvain Blassel took to the stage to perform a characteristically virtuoso programme of Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert Lieder. His performance of
\nDer Wanderer<\/em>, Gretchen am Spinnrade<\/em>, Das Wirtshaus<\/em>, Der M\u00fcller und der Bach<\/em>, Du bist die Ruh<\/em>, Der Doppelg\u00e4nger<\/em>, Auf dem Wasser zu singen<\/em>, and Das Sterbegl\u00f6cklein<\/em> brought the house down. Not only does Sylvain regularly perform music few would ever have believed possible on the harp, but he performs great music. Far be it from this blog ever to question the quality of the harp original repertoire in general, but perhaps it is fair to say that the opportunity to hear something like these Lieder is special food for harpists’ souls.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t