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Although today the mandolin-harp combination is rarely heard, the combination of instrumens can be traced back to nineteenth and eighteenth century Italy, and perhaps back to the sixteenth century. Our mandolin-harp combination was formed in 1995, and we have performed together at a variety of venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Coming together on a whim, we discovered that the two instruments compliment each other nicely. In some pieces, the mandolin's steel strings and sustaining quality of the tremolo - the technique of moving the plectrum rapidly back and forth across the mandolin's pairs of strings - make a clear tonal distinction from the harp. In other pieces, we blend the two instruments in close harmonies, as in operatic duets. Check out the artist's website: http://www.mandolinserenade.com Track List: 1. Bacarolle from Tales of Hoffmann - Jacques Offenbach 2. Holberg Suite - Edvard Grieg: I Gavotte & Musette 3. Holberg Suite: II Sarabande 4. Holberg Suite: III Rigaudon & Trio 5. Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Francisco Tarrega 6. Serenata - Enrico Toselli 7. Pianto Ignoto - P. Latorella 8. Non ti scordar di me - Ernesto de Curtis 9. Suite from La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi: I Preludio 10. La Traviata: II Libiamo di Brindisi 11. La Traviata: III Act I, Scene II (Introduction to Un di Felice) 12. La Traviata: IV Un di Felice 13. La Traviata: V Di Provenza il mar 14. La Traviata: VI Finale Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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