Music of Time
Andrew Lawrence-King Early Harps
Soloist & Leader
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Solo recitalist
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Concerto soloist
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Leader of the Continuo
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Chamber Music
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Continuo (multi-instrumentalist)
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Medieval, renaissance &
baroque ensemble-player
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Early song accompanist
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Lawrence-King is in the top class of world musicians
working on any instrument, in any field.
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[Boston Early Music Festival] The Boston Globe, USA
Andrew Lawrence-King made his professional debut at the BBC Promenade Concerts in 1984, playing medieval harp in the Royal Albert Hall, London. He quickly established himself as the world's foremost exponent of Early Harps, and as a uniquely multi-talented continuo-player, working with leading ensembles in England, Europe and the USA.
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Instruments [Click to view/listen, or audio on the right]
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Organetto
Sinfonye
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Renaissance Irish Harp [wire strung]
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Italian Baroque Triple Harp [arpa doppia]
Spanish Baroque Harp [X-strung]
17th-century Irish Harp [wire-strung, chromatic]
Arpanetta [Spitzharfe]
18th-century Irish Harp [wire-strung]
18th-century 'single-action' pedal harp [harpe organisée]
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Organ
Harpsichord
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Modern folk harp [arpa llanera]
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Solo/Chamber-music Highlights
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Concerts, operas, recordings, awards
as co-director of Tragicomedia [mostly 17th-century]
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Concerts, recordings & awards with Jordi Savall
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Medieval concerts & recordings with Paul Hillier
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Recordings of Handel Harp Concerto with
Taverner Players/Parrott
Sixteen/Christophers
The Harp Consort
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Solo recordings for Hyperion & Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
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Monteverdi Orfeo with Norrington, Savall, Parrott, Herreweghe etc, video recording with Savall, CD with Savall (2021), in repertoire at Theatre Sats, Moscow.
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Valls Missa Scala Aretina with Stuttgart Kammerchor, Leonhardt, Savall
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Vivaldi Four Seasons with Kreeta-Maria Kentala
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Concerts & recordings with Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Monteverdi Vespers with Jurgens, Savall, Stuttgart Kammerchor, Dutch Bach Choir, Scholars
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Concerts & recordings with The Kings Noyse
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Concerts & recordings with The Kings Singers
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Concerts & recordings with Earthly Angels
(music by 17th-cent nuns)
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Concerts & recordings with Chris Page & with Gothic Voices
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Concerts & recordings with Alamire Ensemble/Skinner
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Concerts & recording with Laurie Dean (flute)
18th-century French pedal harp
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Peri songs with Ellen Hargis
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Murcia with Paul O'Dette
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Celtic Viol with Savall & McGuire
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Spanish Baroque with Xavier Diaz-Latorre
Stradavarius Harp
1681
