Yuletide music reflecting 800 years of celebration, in gorgeous new arrangements for harps, recorders, bowed psalteries, and light percussion.

13 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Contemporary, FOLK: Traditional Folk



Details:
Long Night Bright Star is a quintessential instrumental holiday album, exquisitely capturing the joy of the season as well as the meditative and haunting quality of snowy winter nights. Traditional favorites are included (like "Greensleeves" and "Deck the Halls") as well as rarer musical jewels from medieval and Renaissance times, and beautiful ethnic treasures from Ireland, Germany, and France. This is pure music with acoustic instruments -- without heavy reverb, "nature sounds," or synthesizers. Features the folk harp, the ancient wire-strung harp, the rare cross-strung harp, bowed psaltery, and recorder with incidental and tasteful percussion.

Letters and comments from fans:
"After hearing this I basically put away all my other Christmas music."
"I listen to this CD every year as I decorate my tree, and it's just perfect!"
"I don't let myself play Christmas music at home until December 1st, and your CD is always the first one I listen to."
"Very cool - Christmas music cleverly disguised as *real* music!"

HARPER TASCHE holds a unique and prominent place in the folk harp world. He is internationally known as an expert on cross-strung and small folk harps, distilling European, Scandinavian, Celtic and American music into a distinctive and intensely lyrical style. Harper's credits include eighteen recording projects, international radio airplay, television and film work, composition commissions, and music books in two languages. Based in Seattle, he also holds the title "Millennium Harper of Washington State" from the Harping for Harmony Foundation. Harper can be reached via www.harpcrossing.com.