Lou Harrison-The Perilous Chapel

This Lou Harrison disc on New Albion is another of my "desert island discs". It is the Harp Suite, in particular (here played on guitar, with bells, Tibetan rice bowls/tuned water bowls, triangle, percussion, finger cymbals, and a sistra) that I am so very fond of. It can also be played on harpsichord or (surprise!) a harp. Although the disc features guitar & accompanying instruments, I still consider this to
be my favorite "guitar" album. David Tanenbaum is superb on guitar, and further magic is brought courtesy of William Winant and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Enjoy.

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Harrison's music has a sense of humor. His Harp Suite (1952) is actually for guitar, harp, or harpsichord--here it's for guitar and all kinds of interesting percussion. Harrison's music is tonal, but he often adapts Indonesian pentatonic scales and Polynesian musical instruments as well as elements of dance, Eastern, and Western. The Perilous Chapel (1948) is a dance piece for flute, cello, drums, and harp, and though it's structured traditionally, Harrison blends the instruments in such a way as to make it sound oriental.


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