This 2022 Deutsche Grammophon release is the debut of Magdalena Hoffmann, principal harpist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. It's been quite a commercial success, which may be due to a lack of recent virtuoso harp albums, to a desire for music in an entirely nostalgic genre in the midst of dire headlines and pandemic fatigue, to Hoffmann's considerable charisma, or even to Deutsche Grammophon's unusually strong engineering, which lends the harp a brilliant yet intimate quality. More than these factors, though, it ...
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This 2022 Deutsche Grammophon release is the debut of Magdalena Hoffmann, principal harpist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. It's been quite a commercial success, which may be due to a lack of recent virtuoso harp albums, to a desire for music in an entirely nostalgic genre in the midst of dire headlines and pandemic fatigue, to Hoffmann's considerable charisma, or even to Deutsche Grammophon's unusually strong engineering, which lends the harp a brilliant yet intimate quality. More than these factors, though, it comes down to the fundamentals. Hoffmann is a tremendous talent, with absolute clarity in registers from bottom to top. Even better, she packs a great deal of variety into the seemingly commonplace nocturnal theme. Her program is balanced between harp originals and transcriptions of music by Chopin, John Field, Respighi, Clara Schumann, Ildebrando Pizzetti, and jazz pianist Fred Hersch. The variety of that list suggests that of the moods in the program, which range from the dryly...
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