This is one of the most incredible classical records I have ever heard. The album download is 173mb, so you may want to listen to Israeli composer Ami-Maayani’s Toccata as a sample, before you commit to downloading the entire double-LP. I haven’t been able to find any details on this 1971 release, but I did mangage to find one copy on GEMM.com. Details below on Susanna Mildonian are from amiraharp.com:
Susanna Mildonian was born in Venice, Italy – daughter of Armenian parents.
She studied harp with Margerita Cicognari at Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice and later on in the Conservatory of Paris where she became the favourite student of Pierre Jamais, the head professor of the harp course.
Susanna Mildonian is the only harpist to have ever won first prize in all three major International Competitions: First prize in the First International Harp Contest in Israel, unanimous First Prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva and First Prize in the Marcel Tournier International Competition in Paris. She has also been awarded the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque in Paris.
Susanna Mildonian is Professor of Harp at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, Belgium and of the International Summer course in “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” in Sienna and of the International Course “Centro di Cultura Musicale Superiore” for Perfection in Venice, Italy.
Professor Susanna Mildonian is frequently invited to give master classes and concerts all over the world. She is also regularly participating in the World Harp Congresses, as on the final concert of the 8th World Harp Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, 28 July 2002.
Track Listing:
1) Bach (1685-1750) – Italian Concerto in F-major – Allegro Moderato
2) Bach (1685-1750) – Italian Concerto in F-major – Andante
3) Bach (1685-1750) – Italian Concerto in F-major – Presto
4) Padre Antonio Soler – Sonata #5 (Allegro)
5) Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) – Sonata #9 (Allegrissimo)
6) Claude Daquin (1694-1772) – Le Coucou Rondeau
7) Giovanni Battista Pescetti (1704-1766) – Sonata in D minor
8) Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) – Impromptu Op.86
9) Marcel Tournier (1879-1951) – Etude De Concert “Au Matin”
10) Marcel Grandjany (1891-1975) – Rhapsodie
11) Ami-Maayani (born in Israel, 1936) – Toccata
12) Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961) – Variations sur un theme dans le style ancien Op.30 (Maestos; Tempo Di Bourree; Scherzando; Lisstesso Tempo; Maestoso; Vigorosamente; Molto Piu Lento; Vivo Risoluto)
13) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) – Sonata (1939)
14) Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Preulde in D
She studied harp with Margerita Cicognari at Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice and later on in the Conservatory of Paris where she became the favourite student of Pierre Jamais, the head professor of the harp course.