American-Australian harpist Emily Granger made an indelible impression with her solo debut recording, In Transit. She follows up with Something Like This, a beautiful collaboration with flautist Sally Walker, featuring original music for flute and harp alongside adaptations and arrangements for the instrumental combination.

Woven among classics by J.S. Bach and Mozart are works by living composers including Australians Elena Kats-Chernin, Sally Greenaway, Lachlan Skipworth and Jessica Wells, and indigenous composer Christopher Sainsbury.

1. Lachlan Skipworth: Ode
2. Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto in C Major K 299: II. Andantino (arr. for flute & harp duet by Emily Granger)
3. Elena Kats-Chernin: Something like this
4. Christopher Sainsbury: Djagamara
5. Ibert: Entr’acte
6. Bach: Sonata in G minor BWV1020: I. Allegro
7. II. Adagio
8. III. Allegro
9. Lutoslowski: Three Fragments for Flute and Harp: I. Magic (by Theocritus)
10. II. Odysseus in Ithaca
11. III. Presto
12. Jess Wells: Sati
13. Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1 (trans. for solo harp by Emily Granger)
14. Satie: Gymnopedie No. 3 (trans. for flute and harp by Emily Granger)
15. Sally Greenaway: Poems for flute and harp: Poem I.
16. Poem II.
17. Poem III.

The new recording features 20th century works by Jacques Ibert and Witold Lutoslawski, and which are juxtaposed with Erik Satie’s timeless Gymnopedies, opens on the crystalline Lachlan Skipworth music Ode and the ornate beauty within Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto in C Major K 299: II. Andantino, and then brings us Elena Kats-Chernin’s shimmering Something like this, Christopher Sainsbury’s delicate Djagamara and Ibert’s sprightly Entr’acte.

Along next is the trio that makes up Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Sonata in G Minor, H. 542. 5 (the fluttering Allegro, the sterner fare of Adagio and the flourishing Allegro) and then come Lutosławski’s Three Fragments for Flute and Harp or Piano (the playful Magic, the sheerness of Odysseus in Ithaca, and the flirtatious Presto). Up next is Jess Wells’ ornate Sati and both the delicate rendition of Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1 and the pleasurably gilded Gymnopedie No. 3, the recording coming to a close on the Sally Greenaway’s Poems for flute and harp: the graceful Poem I, the elegant Poem II, and finally the tender Poem III.

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