Catrin Finch - Goldberg Variations (1st Royal Harpist)

[@sueimer6919]

Heavenly... It brings peace and tranquility like no other. Thank you for sharing your musical gift with us, Ms. Finch! God bless you and your melody.

[@byf43]

Harp is a fantastic instrument. Such elegance.

[@margelyreve3164]

Catrine F. Thank You for performing for us last tuesday! it was enchanting! I was even inspired to learn the harp myself! anyway thanks so much and cant wait to hear more from you! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@bobmather8814]

First hear on Radio 3. Really did reduce me to tears. The most beautiful piece of musical interpretation I have ever been blessed to hear.

[@cdhammond]

She has! I've met her a couple of times at harp competitions & she is so down to earth and friendly.

[@K13R0NI3O6]

Im a rock, metal and film music kind of guy, but this was fantastic, soothing, enchanting and is definately going on my play list under fantasticly chilled the f*** out time :D xxxxx

[@rickmcarthur77]

fantastic. one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed. it almost sounds as though it was written for harp. superb.

[@pureland2015]

beautiful lady, beautiful harp, beautiful Bach

[@cutefidgety]

@debisavannah2 the strings are coloured... all the Cs are in red, the Fs are in black/dark blue so we don't have to count from scratch every time. and yes there is plenty of music written for it. most famous from the baroque period is Handel's Harp Concerto. in the last 200 years or so though, there has been an explosion in the harp repertoire as harp players start to compose harp music for the instrument they know best.

[@jewellsky8998]

So beautiful and perfect… thank you angel💜👼💜

[@harpist96]

I love the Goldberg Variations and Catrin makes it look so easy! I wish I could play this.

[@Flowmotion1000]

You could put this music over any sequence of images and it would make them look poetic.Wonderful.

[@Uruarpa]

Absolutely extraordinary. Experience the sound of harps, sublime moment. Thanks

[@timages]

I've known this piece for years and never heard it with a harp, beautiful. I don't know if it's a triumph for the harp or for Bach's wonderful music...I guess both. ...she plays so effortlessly, you know that when you a musician play an instrument with such ease they are extremely skilled...beautiful Catrin Finch.

[@luigiesposito3732]

bellissima esecuzione per arpa dell'"aria" dalle variazione Goldberg di J.S. Bach, tank you Miss Finch

[@harvinsky]

wow, the next variations must be so beautiful!!

[@AnneVanschothorst]

Congratulations with your beautiful CD... I have just received it ... It is stunningly played.. if that is correct english..(-: however I can recommend everyone who loves the goldberg variations to buy this CD! grtz anne m.

[@blockleg]

This is great! i would love to see the whole set

[@MrArtrock]

Hi Catrin, this I just found out, and what a great thing you do with your harp dear one! Must deifinitely hear & see more, no planned shows in Sweden etc? Keep it up and thanks for this really beautiful performance*

[@goatsareus]

Damn - I was hoping to hear more of the faster stuff (I've been playing bits of the Goldberg for the last couple of years on the harp - this first movement works very well even on the lever harp - and it does go really well on this instrument). Very nice playing and lovely video.

[@plummyzebra]

beautiful!

[@parkerharps]

@fingerhorn4 hi there, yes, I'm aware of that, and I'm also aware that Bach had no concept of the modern harp tone... and didn't actually write anything for the harp, or even suggest harp for any of his works. There *is* a hook harp at the Bach House museum, but nothing to suggest it lived there at the time any of the Bachs were living there, or any of them played harp.

[@NostalgiaOC]

too awesome for words.

[@omom326]

My headache is relieved.

[@horstb29]

superb

[@mdmusic2]

Beautiful performance! In Catrin's hands (literally!) the harp is a modern alternative to the harpsichord, or to the modern piano ( Glen Gould). A Master work by a Master performer!

[@parkerharps]

@fingerhorn4 My point is that we have some wonderful material by other composers that is being ignored in favour of transcription (Ms Finch once informed me personally that "Nothing worth playing was written for the harp in the 18th C".... strangely I don't agree) I have 32 concerti, including one for two harps, that don't get performed because they aren't the Mozart (unfinished,not performed before 1888) Dittersdorf ( for harpsichord and transcribed) or Handel ( for triple harp, not pedal).

[@fingerhorn4]

@parkerharps Almost everything by Bach is transferable to another instrument, and you'll be aware that Bach himself often used similar or exactly similar themes on a variety of solo and other instruments. I think the harp is very well suited to the Goldberg variations, and there isn't that much around transcription wise. Add to that this superb, tasteful, rhythmically sound and sensitive performance and I can't really see how you could not appreciate it.

[@ulfutstrand]

....presisjon....perfeksjon....sjel......

[@BorisCr]

Of course there is music written for harp! As for the technic, it's something that is learnable.

[@xxCCBBxx]

Music like this forms my idea of God.

[@AuntieWelly]

I can't remember who said it but I love this - if angels play Bach in the presence of God, en famille they play Mozart

[@Beastieijp]

Amazing 1 Of My Harp Goals

[@fabiencourtoistapping]

very beautyfull....i m guitarist ...i make the first variarion with tapping technique the alone version on youtube.with one neck.but your sound is magnifique....it s the first time that i listen bach at the harp great

[@LionTipu]

Classic.

[@davribx9237]

perfect all

[@fingerhorn4]

@parkerharps. Agreed there are a lot of ignored pieces, and yes, the bass parts in Goldberg can sound a little muddy on the modern harp. I'd still rather this recording existed than didn't. As for ornamentation, agreed, but I still like the overall musicality here, and Bach sounds satisfying on almost any instrument.

[@trompeterhuang]

nice!! some like Glenn Gould.

[@artsbydebi]

how does ANYONE remember what strings to pluck - and when... is there actually written music for this sort of thing.??? GOSH what an amazing talent!

[@pobinr]

Is this the music they play in heaven ?

[@masonfocus]

Sylvain Blassel那张没有这么多愁善感。

[@hernanbarona3948]

Catrin F. You are beautiful, and a muse of the harp thanks for your talent, soul and turn me on. I can only thank God for being alive and having the opportunity to hear. ecepcional're human.

[@parkerharps]

@fingerhorn4 I also don't like any of the Bachs in ET, and fond the thick tone of the modern concert harp clogs up the harmony... that is personal taste. I don't say you shouldn't like it, whilst you seem to think I should be obliged to like it. she also does things with the ornamentation that are not in the nature of what the composer intended by the symbols (see the notebook for W F Bach, which has a table of 26 forms of trill.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Wow, if you play it incredibly slow, you can do anything on the harp!

[@parkerharps]

I would much rather see a musician of her capabilities and standing championing the instrument and its canon, not declaring that she had to transcribe a Mozart piano concerto to have something worth playing, or having to take a suite written for keyboard rather than explore the repretoire for her own instrument

[@mattb-iq3iv]

what the hell is Royal harpist?

[@parkerharps]

But why? its keyboard music! Do we not have enugh truly wonderful music composed for the harp that is ignored by modern players in favour of playing transcription...I guess becaus the composer's names aren't big enough...

[@davidchamberlain5425]

Nearly as good as Mary O'Hara.😑😑

[@mycomment7998]

Dal i fod y darn o gerddoriaeth orau oll ar y we