"She has a very vide dynamic range and colours the music with great sensitivity. She has a very well-grounded technique which is completely at the service of the music. What's more, she takes risks " BBC
"She has a very vide dynamic range and colours the music with great sensitivity. She has a very well-grounded technique which is completely at the service of the music. What's more, she takes risks " BBC
This season gives me the opportunity to enlarge my Repertoire with such works as Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra K414 adapted for the harp and Fanfare and Mémorial for Harp and Orchestra by Isang Yun which we will record with Lucas Vis and Hessischer Rundfunk, as well as interpreting some of my favourite repertoire which includes Hindemith Sonata, Bariolage by Elliott Carter and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro.
I am also looking forward to participate at pedagogic projects such as Instrumentenzoo at the Radio in Frankfurt and Rapshody in School.
02, Anne-Sophie Bertrand Harp
Katzenberger Music Productions
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The harp, an instrument which is above all intriguing because of its magical precision and its warm, mellow as well as rich tonality.
When selected the pieces, Anne-Sophie attached great importance to offering a large scope of the harp, ranging from Bach to the world Premiere recording of Jean Françaix Suite pour harpe, for which she benefited from the advices of the composer's daughter, Claude Françaix.
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Pizzicato Magazine, www.pizzicato.lu, November 2010
The many-faceted harp
Harp music by Albeniz, Fauré, Bach, Mendellsohn, Handel, Françaix, Alvars, Prokofiev and Debussy. Anne-Sophie Bertrand, harp; Katzenberger MusicProductions 02;3/10 (69'40)
The French/American harpist Anne-Sophie Bertrand studied at the "Royal Academy of Music" in London and at the "Conservatoire Royale Supérieure" in Brussels. At present, she is principal harpist in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. She presents a very varied programme for Katzenberger MusicProductions, demonstrating the harp's full tonal range, it's great sonority and expressive diversity. Her characterisations range from definitively rustical, through determinedly powerful to refined and elegant.
This is not aristocratic, feminine playing: Her fascinating interpretations are never boring for a moment and correspond perfectly to the music she plays. One highlight ist the premier recording of Françaix's wonderful "Suite for Harp".
The positive impression is substantially reinforced by the the full, powerfully contoured sound and wide dynamic range of the faultless SACD recording.
"Die Fülle des Wohllauts": The new CD of the Kammerchor
Music of Rheinberger, Holst and Brahms
With Anne-Sophie Bertrand, Harp, and the Kammerchors from the Erlöserkirche in Bad Homburg.
