Savourna Stevenson

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Sheet Music: Savourna Stevenson

Solo Harp

Harp and String Quartet

String Quintet Ref: SS011
for pedal harp and string quartet
Savourna Stevenson

The String Quintet was premiered by the composer at GRCH for the Celtic Connections Festival in 2000. Inspired by Scottish Traditional music from Burns songs to waulking songs of the Hebridean Tweed industry. This three movement work - 1. Come Try Me, 2. No False Love, 3. A Thousand Curses - was originally scored for clarsach (scottish harp) and string quartet and recorded by the composer on her CD ‘Touch Me Like The Sun‘. This original recording is acclaimed for its use in the popular American TV series ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Ugly Betty’. In 2007 Savourna made this second edition of the quintet, scoring it for pedal harp and developing the string writing to create an even more lush effect in the second movement. She has performed this second edition with both the Martinu Quartet and the Edinburgh Quartet.

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Savourna Stevenson
Savourna Stevenson is a world class exponent of the Scottish harp. As both a virtuoso player and a composer she ‘completely re-writes the rule-books and proves the harp is capable of being pushed beyond it’s usual limits ... and sometimes doing the seemingly impossible’ (Taplas).

CD Tweed Journey: A musical journey down the River Tweed from source to sea ... growing from solo harp to seven piece band by the journey's end.

"Stevenson makes the harp sing and swing ... a more adventurous and more skilful performer with each hearing" THE SCOTSMAN

"The most exciting and original commission to come out of Scotland this year" THE INDEPENDENT (1990)

CD Touch Me Like The Sun ... Speaks eloquently of Stevenson's remarkable ability with the harp. Eddi Reader sings the title track and there is a brilliantly conceived suite in three movements for string quartet ... the lively cascading notes of the harp evoke tonalities normally associated with the lute, banjo or Japanese koto. In a class of its own. TIME OUT

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