Anaëlle Tourret’s second album »Perspectives concertantes« – Glière, Dohnányi, Debussy
The French harpist Anaëlle Tourret is set to release her second studio album »Perspectives concertantes« on Feb 28 with a solo concerto by Reinhold Glière, a concertino by Ernst von Dohnányi and two dances by Claude Debussy on the Label ES Dur.
Anaëlle Tourret should be well known to concert audiences in northern Germany. Since 2017, she has been the Principal Harpist of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, where she also – as the former winner of the Berenberg Culture Prize (2019) – holds a teaching position at the local music college. The master student of Xavier de Maistre has long been one of the leading harp soloists of her generation – and is a much sought-after guest in concert halls around the world from Lucerne to Berlin to Tokyo. Tourret’s first foray into the recording studio in 2021 was equally successful: her album “Perspectives” with original works for solo harp by André Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten and Heinz Holliger was nominated for the International Classical Music Award 2023.
And this is where her new studio project follows on seamlessly – continuing on with her programme with the same title “Perspectives” but now with the additional sub-title “concertantes”.
Anaëlle Tourret recorded the two chamber orchestra works by Dohnányi and Debussy together with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Bar Avni. For the Glière Harp Concerto, she worked with her own orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, who gave the harp virtuoso an outstanding review: “I was very impressed by her deep understanding and her careful pursuit of new details in the interpretation of this work.”
