Harpy Hour Programmes

 

Friday 17 March 2023’s St. Patrick’s Day programme (Harpy Hour no.118):

  • Carolan’s Receipt - Turlough O’Carolan

  • Irish Lamentation - Trad.

  • Si Bheag, Si Mhor - O’ Carolan

  • Concerto - O’Carolan

  • She Moved Thru’ The Fair - Melody adapted by Herbert Hughes

  • The Salley Gardens - Trad. arr. Britten

  • Raglan Road - Patrick Kavanagh

  • Watermark - Enya

  • Ireland’s Call - Phil Coulter

  • The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls - Trad.

  • The Fields of Athenry - Pete St. John

  • Skellig - Ailbhe McDonagh

  • Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor (written by Prince)

    Sunday 12 March 2023’s International Women’s Day programme (Harpy Hour no.117):

  • Monody - Lucia Quinciani

  • Extracts from Suite in A minor by Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

  • Romance no.1 - Clara Schumann

  • Theme and Variations on “Somebody” - Anne-Marie Krumpholtz

  • D’un Jardin Clair - Lili Boulanger

  • The March of the Women - Ethel Smyth

  • Ticklin’ Toes - Florence Price arr. Sue Rothstein

  • Pavane - Cecilia McDowall

  • Debbie Wiseman

Friday 3 March 2023’s St David’s Day programme (Harpy Hour no.116):

  • Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn - Trad. arr. John Thomas

  • Y Fwyalchen - Trad.

  • Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin

  • Myfanwy - John Parry

  • Dafydd y Garreg Wen - David Owen arr. John Thomas

  • Ar Hyd y Nos - Edward Jones

  • Lisa Lân - Trad. arr. Meinir Heulyn

  • Su Gân - Haldon Evans

  • Caniad y Gwyn Bibydd from the Robert ap Huw manuscript - transcr. Peter Greenhill, arr. Joseph Davies

  • Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

  • Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

  • Land of My Fathers (Welsh National Anthem) - J. James

Friday 24 Feb’s Mountain themed programme (Harpy Hour no.115):

  • The Climb - Miley Cyrus

  • The Lake in the Mountains - Vaughan Williams

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg

  • Chijulya Hama - Trad. Japan arr. Gary Schocker

  • Wild Mountain Thyme - Trad. Scotland

  • William Tell Overture - Rossini arr. Bochsa

  • Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Ashford & Simpson

  • My Neighbour from Totoro - Joe Hisaishi

  • Moon Over The Ruined Castle - Rentaro Taki arr. Andrea Stern

  • Die Berge - Schubert

  • Climber Every Mountain - Rodgers & Hammerstein

Friday 17 Feb’s Random Acts of Kindness programme (Harpy Hour no.114):

  • Treat People With Kindness - Harry Styles

  • Goodbye, Storyteller - Brad Mehldau

  • You’ve Got A Friend - Carole King

  • Excerpt from Symphony no.2 - Brahms

  • Comptine d’un autre été: l’après-midi - Yann Tiersen

  • Streets of London - Ralph McTell

  • A Bouquet for Olivia - Zach Neece

  • The Great Glen Cattle Ranch - Anna Tait Westwell

Sunday 12 Feb’s Valentine’s Harpy Hour (no.113) programme with actor Alex Knox (incl. audience poems throughout):

  • Close To You - Burt Bacharach

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • My Spirit Sang All Day - Gerald Finzi

  • A Song For You - Leon Russell

  • Arabesque - York Bowen

  • The Joker & The Queen - Ed Sheeran/ Taylor Swift

  • People Will Say We’re In Love from Oklahoma - Richard Rodgers

  • I Say A Little Prayer - Burt Bacharach

  • My Funny Valentine - Rodgers/ Hart

  • Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Nino Rota arr. Mancini

Friday 20 Jan’s Chinese New Year (no.112) programme:

  • Gong Xi Gong Xi (Chinese New Year Song) - Trad.

  • Eye of the Tiger - Sullivan & Peterik

  • Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter Yarrow

  • Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon - Ren Guang arr. Keziah Thomas

  • I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

  • Jasmin - JiangSu Folksong arr. Teresa Suen-Campbell

  • How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Bob Merrill

  • Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow - Huang Tzu arr. Teresa Suen-Campbell

  • Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon

  • Rose Rose I Love You (May Kway O May Kway) - Chen Gexin

  • Run Rabbit Run - Noel Gay

Friday 13 Jan’s Sea themed Harpy Hour (no.111) programme:

  • Sailing - Rod Stewart/ Gavin Sutherland

  • Fingal’s Cave (The Hebrides Overture) - Mendelssohn

  • La Mer - Charles Trenet

  • Sea Fever - John Ireland

  • Shoals of Herring - Ewan McColl

  • Wellerman - New Zealand Folksong

  • O’er the Sea to Skye - Trad.

  • Extract from HMS Pinafore - Gilbert & Sullivan

  • An Andante from Handel’s Water Music

  • Extract from Britten’s Peter Grimes

  • Sleepy Lagoon (a.k.a. Desert Island Discs) - Eric Coates

  • 2nd movement from Piano Concerto no.23 - Mozart

  • Octopus’s Garden - The Beatles

  • Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid - Menken/ Ashman

Friday 6 Jan’s Horoscope Harpy Hour (no.110) programme:

  • For Capricorns - The Lonely Goatherd - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • For Aries - Saint-Saens’ Aquarium into 5th Dimension’s Aquarius

  • For Pisces - Where Corals Lie from Elgar’s Sea Pictures

  • For Aries - Mars from Holst’s The Planets

  • For Tauruses - Little White Bull (Tommy Steele) and Waltz from Sleeping Beauty by Taurus Tchaikovsky (arr. Keziah Thomas)

  • For Geminis - Naissez, dons de Flore from Rameau’s Castor et Pollux

  • For Cancers - Adagietto from Symphony no.5 by Cancerian Gustav Mahler

  • For Leos - The Circle of Life from The Lion King - Elton John & Tim Rice

  • For Virgos - Like A Virgin - Madonna

  • For Libras - Scales and Arpeggios from The Aristocats - The Sherman Brothers

  • For Scorpios - Wind of Change by Scorpions

  • For Sagittariuses - Jupiter from Holst’s The Planets

Sunday 1 Jan’s New Year’s Harpy Hour with bassist Herbie Flowers programme:

  • Auld Lang Syne - Trad. arr. Joyce Leong

  • Carillon - Herbie Flowers

  • Happy New Year - ABBA

  • Dance of the Little Faeries - Herbie Flowers

  • The Rejoicing (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - Handel

  • Grandad - Herbie Flowers

  • Water II - Clare Kevis

  • My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers/ Lorenz Hart

  • Blue Danube - Johann Strauss

  • The Wedding - Abdullah Ibrahim

  • Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed

  • Space Oddity - David Bowie

Friday 23 Dec’s Christmas Harpy Hour

Sunday 27 Nov’s purple themed Harpy Hour programme:

  • Zadok The Priest - Handel

  • We’ll Gather Lilacs - Ivor Novello

  • Deep Purple - Peter De Rose

  • Le Violette - Scarlatti

  • Violet Hill - Coldplay

  • Aria from Sarabande - Jon Lord

  • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel

  • King Solomon - Duke Ellington arr. Ethan Iverson

  • Lilac Wine - Nina Simone

  • Purple Rain - Prince

  • Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

Friday 18 Nov’s blue themed Harpy Hour programme:

  • Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Tepper & Bennett

  • Blue Danube - Strauss

  • Blue Moon - Rodgers & Hart

  • New Blues - Deborah Henson-Conant

  • Blue Tango - Leroy Anderson

  • Caribbean Blue - Enya

  • Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin

  • Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65

  • Where Corals Lie from Sea Pictures - Elgar

  • Blue Skies - Irving Berlin

  • Don’t Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gale

  • Piano Encore: Mr Blue Sky - ELO

  • Friday 11 Nov’s green themed Harpy Hour programme:

  • Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

  • Spring Intermezzo - Betty Jackson King

  • Evergreen - Barbara Streisand

  • Fantasia on Greensleeves - Vaughan WIlliams arr. Keziah Thomas

  • Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing from the album There Is A Green Hill Far Away - John Wyeth arr. Lyle K. Hadlock

  • Green Onions - Booker T. & The MGs

  • The Green Leaves of Summer from The Aloma - Dimitri Tiomkin

  • La Forza del Destino into La Donna e Mobile into Va’ pensiero - Guiseppe Verdi

  • All Around My Hat into Green Tambourine - Steeleye Span and The Lemon Pipers

  • The Banks of Green Willow - George Butterworth arr. Iain Farrington

  • Good Riddance/ When September Ends mash-up - Green Day

Friday 28 Oct’s yellow themed Harpy Hour programme:

  • Follow the Yellow Brick Road/ We’re Off To See The Wizard - Harold Arlen

  • Fields of Gold - Sting

  • The Yellow Rose of Texas - Don George

  • Chelsea Fayre - Reginald Goss-Custard

  • Yellow Submarine - The Beatles

  • The Girl With The Flaxen Hair - Debussy

  • Ukrainian National Anthem - Mykhailo Verbytsky

  • 4th movement from Symphony no.4 - Mahler arr. Iain Farrington

  • Banana Boat Song & Yellow Bird - Harry Belafonte/ Norman Luboff

  • Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini into Mellow Yellow - Vance & Pockriss then Donovan

Friday 21 Oct’s orange themed Harpy Hour programme:

  • Oranges and Lemons & Oh My Darling, Clementine - Trad.

  • Orange Coloured Sky - Natalie Cole

  • Libertango - Piazzolla arr. Rayan-Forero

  • Music for the Royal Fireworks (The Rejoicing) - Handel arr. Burton

  • The Firebird - Stravinsky

  • Tangerine - Mercer & Schertzinger

  • Theme from “A Clockwork Orange” - Carlos & Elkind

  • Year of the Cat - Al Stewart & Peter Wood

  • Lady Marmalade - Crewe & Nolan

  • Piano Encore: Divernire - Einaudi

Sunday 16 Oct’s red themed Harpy Hour programme:

  • Red Red Wine - UB40

  • Habanera - Bizet

  • Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • Nessun Dorma - Puccini

  • Lady in Red - Chris De Burgh

  • A Red, Red Rose by James Mulholland into the traditional setting of My Love is like a Red, Red Rose

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett

  • Hungarian Dance no.5 - Brahms

  • The Red Weed into Forever Autumn - Jeff Wayne

  • Autumn by Vivaldi into Autumn Leaves by Mercer & Kosma

  • Mars by Holst into Life on Mars by David Bowie

Friday 23 Sep’s Harpy Hour tribute to Queen Elizabeth II programme:

  • Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven - Henry Francis Lyte

  • Elizabethan Serenade - Ronald Binge

  • Highland Cathedral - Michael Korb & Ulrich Roever

  • People Will Say We’re In Love - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Nimrod from Enigma Variations - Edward Elgar

  • Ascot Gavotte from My Fair Lady - Lerner & Loewe

  • A Letter from Prison from Paddington 2 - Dario Marinelli

  • The Lord is my Shepherd - Howard Goodall

  • Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen

  • White Cliffs of Dover - Nat Burton & Walter Kent

Friday 2 Sep’s Harpy Hour 100 programme:

  • The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

  • Medley from Harpy Hour no.1 - Police’s Don’t Stand So Close To Me, Pachelbel’s Canon, Carole King’s You’ve Got A Friend, ABBA’s Mamma Mia, Einaudi’s I Giorni, The Beatle’s Strawberry Fields

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Ennio Morricone

  • Ostinato vo’seguire - Tromboncino arr. Sinead Frost

  • Someone To Watch Over Me - Gershwin

  • S’agapo (from Boy On A Dolphin) into Zorba the Greek - Morakis and Theodorakis

  • Bouquet for Olivia - Zach Neece (world première)

  • Good Riddance - Green Day

  • Que Será, Será - Livingston & Evans

  • Piano Encore: Elton John’s Greatest Piano Intros & Riffs Medley arr. Nate Hance

Friday 15 July’s Harpy Hour goes to Wales awr delyn programme no.99:

  • Suo Gân - trad. arr. Haldon Evans

  • Hiraeth - Grace Williams

  • Watching the Wheat - John Thomas

  • Diamonds are Forever - John Barry

  • Cania y Gwyn Bibydd “ Song of the White Piper” from the Robert ap Huw manuscript (c.1613) - transcr. Peter Greenhill, arr. Joseph Davies

  • Of Noble Race Was Shenkin - John Parry

  • Land of my Fathers - J. James

  • Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin

  • Myfanwy - Joseph Parry arr. Meinir Heulyn

  • Floresta Tropical - Amanda Whiting

  • Calon Lân - John Hughes

  • Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

  • Piano Encore: Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer - John Hughes

Friday 8 July’s Harpy Hour goes to Ireland uair an chláirseach programme no.98:

  • When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - Ernest R. Ball

  • Tabhair dom do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand) - Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin

  • Concerto - Turlough O’Carolan

  • Eleanor Plunkett - Turlough O’Carolan

  • My Wild Irish Rose - Trad. arr. Keith Jarrett

  • Nocturne in Bb major - John Field

  • The King of the Fairies

  • Skellig - Ailbhe McDonagh

  • Carolan’s Receipt - Turlough O’Carolan

  • Shenandoah - Trad.

  • Ireland’s Call - Phil Coulter

  • Watermark into Only Time into Orinoco Flow - Enya

Sunday 3 July’s Harpy Hour Live Kent - The Garden of England programme with soprano Eleanor Janes no.97:

  • Under The Apple Tree - Harriet Adie

  • Daphne - William Walton

  • Lavender’s Blue - Trad.

  • Du bist wie eine Blume - Robert Schumann

  • Le Colibri - Ernest Chausson

  • Les Papillons - Ernest Chausson

  • Blight - James Joslin (world premiere)

  • Fantasia on Greensleeves - Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. Keziah Thomas

INTERVAL

  • Evergreen - Barbra Streisand

  • Granddad - Herbie Flowers & Ken Pickett

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream opening and The Sally Gardens - Benjamin Britten

  • Aerial Ballet - Chris Roe

  • Mi Chiamino Mimi from La Bohème - Puccini

  • Make Our Garden Grow from Candide - Bernstein

  • Running Up That Hill/ Babooshka/ December Will Be Magic Again/ Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

  • English Country Garden - Trad.

Sunday 19 June’s harpputunti goes to Finland programme no.96:

  • Joueur de harpe op.34 no.8 - Sibelius

  • Soittajapaimen (The Minstrel Shepherd) - Trad.

  • Jubliee March from the play The Sleeping Beauty op.22 no.30 - Erkki Melartin

  • Mansikka (Strawberry) - Trad. children’s song

  • Akselin ja Elinan häävalssi (Wedding Waltz) - Heikki Aaltoila

  • Heilini Soitteli Folk Medley - Trad. arr. Eira Mattson

  • First Movement of Harp Concerto - Einojuhani Rautavaara

  • Lazzarella - Domenico Modugno made famous by Laila Kinnusen

  • Katson autiota hiekkarantaa (Looking at a deserted sandy beach) - Veikko Samuli sung by Katri Helena

  • Konevitsan kirkonkellot (The church bells of Konevitsan) - Trad.

  • Finlandia op.26 no.7 - Sibelius

Sunday 12 June’s ハーピーアワー goes to Japan programme no.95:

  • Momiji (Autumn Leaves) - Trad. arr. Gary Schocker

  • Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) - Trad.

  • Moon Over The Ruined Castle - Rentaro Taki arr. Andrea Stern

  • Japanese Folk Song (Moon Over The Ruined Castle) - Thelonius Monk

  • Alone in Kyoto - Air

  • One Summer Day from Spirited Away - Joe Hishaishi

  • Sukiyaki / Ue o miute arukou (I Look Up When I Walk) - Kyu Sakamoto

  • Nanatsu No Ko (7 Little Crows) - Nagayo Motoori

  • Ivory - Anthony Green

  • Yuki no Hana (Snow Flower) - Mika Nakashima

  • Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly - Puccini

  • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto

Friday 29 May’s ώρα άρπας goes to the Greek island of Zoom-os programme no.94:

  • Ionian Suite op.7 no.2 - Manos Hadjidakis

  • Rain and Tears - Aphrodite’s Child

  • Ti Ein Afto Pou To Lene Agapi from Boy On A Dolphin - Takis Morakis

  • Temples in the Shape of the Sky from Axion Esti - Mikis Theodorakis

  • A Partridge Descends from a Mountain from Six Chansons pour piano - Iannis Xenakis

  • Pelagia’s Song from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Stephen Warbeck

  • An Old Music Box - 15 seconds by Elena Papari

  • By The Sea from Eternity and a Day - Eleni Karaindrou

  • Conquest of Paradise - Vangelis

  • The White Roses of Athens - Hadjidakis & Bradtke

  • Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease (not to be confused with Greece) - John Farrar

  • Careless Whisper - Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (a.k.a. George Michael) and Andrew Ridgley

  • Piano Encore: Theme from Zorba The Greek - Mikis Theodorakis

Friday 20 May’s Hora da Harpa vai Portugal no.93 programme:

  • Chamarita - Trad.

  • Sonata in D minor for harpsichord - Carlos Seixas

  • Verdes Anos - Carlos Paredes

  • De la hermosura de Fílis - Manuel Machado (arr. Hannah Runting)

  • Portuguese Love Theme from Love Actually - Craig Armstrong

  • Uma Casa Portuguesa - Fonseca & Ferreira

  • April in Portugal - Ferrao & Kennedy

  • Lisboa Antiga Fado - Raul Portela

  • Valsa Caprichosa from Three Portuguese Scenes - José Vianna da Motta

  • Amar Pelos Dois - Salvador Sobral (2017 Eurovision winner)

  • A Cabritinha - Quim Barreiros

  • Feel It Sill - Portugal. The Man

  • Piano Encore: Chega de Saudade - Antonio Carlos Jobim

Friday 13 May’s Harpy Hour no.92 trip to Spain programme:

  • Habanera from Carmen - Bizet

  • Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings

  • Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Francisco Tárrega

  • Concert Fantasy on Lara’s Granada - arr. Salzedo

  • Spanish Eyes - Bert Kaempfert

  • Habanera - Chabrier

  • Hero - Enrique Iglesias

  • Pavane and Variations - Antonio de Cabezón

  • Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez - Rodrigo as performed by Dorothy Ashby

  • Piano Encore: Medley of themes from Bizet’s Carmen

Friday 6 May’s Harpy Hour no.91 celebrating International Space Day programme:

  • Sky Full Of Stars - Coldplay

  • Fly Me To The Moon - Bart Howard

  • Walking On The Moon - The Police

  • The Imperial March from Star Wars - John Williams

  • Theme and Variations (theme from Il Mondo Della Luna) - Haydn transcribed by Carlos Salzedo

  • Life On Mars - David Bowie

  • When You Wish Upon A Star - Brandon Tatar

  • Jupiter from The Planets - Holst

  • Harvest Moon - Neil Young

  • Planetarium from La La Land - Justin Hurwitz

  • Space Oddity - David Bowie

Friday 22 April’s Harpy Hour no.90 - 90s hits from any century programme:

  • Te Deum - Charpentier from the 1690s

  • Arabesque no.1 - Debussy from the 1890s

  • Arabesuqe no.2 - Debussy from the 1890s

  • Nothing Else Matters - Metallica from the 1990s

  • The Bird-Catcher’s Song from The Magic Flute - Mozart from the 1790s

  • Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton from the 1990s

  • A Galliards Gygge from Lady Nevell’s Book by William Byrd from the 1590s

  • Adagio cantabile from Sonata Pathetique -i Beethoven from the 1790s

  • Quando m’en vo from La Bohème - Puccini from the 1890s

  • Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor - Borodin completed in the 1890s

  • Mama and Wannabe - The Spice Girls from the 1990s

Easter Sunday 17 April’s Harpy Hour no.89 Easter themed programme:

  • Spring - Vivaldi

  • Morning Has Broken - Eleanor Farjeon arr. Cat Stevens

  • Spring Intermezzo - Betty Jackson King

  • A Couple of Swells from Easter Parade - Irving Berlin

  • Second movement from Spring Sonata for violin and piano - Beethoven

  • Chick Chick Chick Chicken - Magee & Holt

  • Spring Spring Spring from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Johnny Mercer

  • The Wedding - Abdullah Ibrahim

  • Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni

  • Piano Encore: Easter Parade - Irving Berlin

Sunday 6 March’s Harpy Hour no.88 Ukraine programme (raising money for Polish Humanitarian Action):

  • Bagatelle op.1 no.1 - Valentin Silvestrov

  • Impromptu for Harp - Glière

  • Heart of Courage - Two Steps From Hell

  • A Prayer For Peace in Ukraine - Alina Bzhezhinska

  • I’d Rather Take A Bandura - Berkovich

  • Carol of the Bells - Trad.

  • Prayer for Ukraine - Mykola Lysenko

  • Moment of Despair - Mykola Lysenko

  • Dance of the Knights - Prokofiev

  • Ukrainian National Anthem

  • The Great Gates of Kiev - Mussorgsky

Friday 18 February’s Harpy Hour Live from Helmsley Arts Centre programme (Animal theme inspired by James Herriot):

  • All Creatures Great and Small - Johnny Pearson

  • Sheep May Safely Graze - J.S.Bach

  • Blackbird - The Beatles

  • The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams

  • Mr Blue Sky - ELO

  • The Swan - Saint-Saëns arr. Hasselmans

  • Swan Descending - Per Nørgård

  • The Bare Necessities - Terry Gilkyson

  • Czarna Krowa (Black Cow) - Walenty Bakfark

  • The Circle of Life - Elton John

  • Eternal Father Strong to Save - John B. Dykes

  • Swan LK243 - Catriona McKay

  • House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

Friday 11 February’s Harpy Hour no.86 Valentine’s programme with actor Alex Knox:

  • Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Nino Rota arr. Mancini

  • Every Breath You Take - Sting

  • Venus from The Planets - Holst

  • Romance Anónimo - Anon.

  • Teddy Bear’s Picnic (Characteristic March) - John W. Bratton

  • The Mechanicals - James Joslin

  • Nocturne from Midsummer Night’s Dream - Mendelssohn

  • The Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet - Craig Armstrong

Friday 28 January’s Harpy Hour no.85 Burns Night programme:

Three Traditional Jigs - Trad. arr. Ailie Robertson

  • The Dark Island - Iain MacLachlan

  • The Great Glen Cattle Ranch - Anna Tait Westwell

  • Eriskay Love-Lilt - Trad. arr. Stevenson

  • Ae Fond Kiss - Burns/ Trad.

  • 1st movement from Sonata in C minor - Sophia Dussek

  • The Cock o’ the North - Trad.

  • Wild Mountain Thyme - Trad.

  • Caledonia - Dougie MacLean

  • Glasgow Love Theme - Craig Armstrong

  • The Lea Rig - Trad.

  • Donald, where’s your Trousers? - Lewis

  • Auld Lang Syne - Burns/ Trad.

  • Encore: 500 miles - The Proclaimers

Friday 21 January’s Harpy Hour no.84 programme - Harfenstunde geht nach Deutschland:

  • Air on the G String - J.S.Bach

  • Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

  • Lili Marlene - Marlene Dietrich

  • Concerto HWV294 1st movement - Handel

  • Ode to Joy - Beethoven

  • I was Kaiser Bill’s Batman - Greenaway & Cook

  • Romance op.11 no.1 - Clara Schumann

  • Strangers in the Night - Bert Kaempfert

  • Bach’s Prelude in C into The Can-Can by Offenbach

  • Piano Encore: Träumerei - Robert Schumann

    Friday 14 January’s Harpy Hour no.83 programme - L’ora dell’arpia va in Italia:

  • Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Nino Rota arr. Henry Mancini

  • Che gelida manina from La Bohème - Puccini

  • O Sole Mio - Eduardo Capua

  • Gabriel’s Oboe - Ennio Morricone

  • Tutto È Bellissimo - Alberto Giurioli

  • Tu Vuò Fa’ L’Americano

  • Funiculì Funiculà - Luigi Denza

  • Que Será, Será - Livingston/ Evans

  • Vissi d’Arte from Tosca - Puccini

  • Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco - Verdi

  • Sonata in F minor K.239 - Scarlatti

  • The Drinking Song from La Traviata - Verdi

Friday 7 January’s Harpy Hour no.82 programme - L’heure de la harpe va en France:

  • ‘Allo ‘Allo theme - Croft & Moore

  • Arabesque - Marcel Grandjany

  • Pistache - Bernard Andrès

  • She - Charles Aznavour

  • La Vie En Rose - Louiguy

  • Prelude, Allemande and Sarabande from Suite in A minor - Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

  • A Paris - Yves Montand

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • I Will Wait For You from Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Michel Legrand

  • Tous Les Garçons et Les Filles - Françoise Hardy

  • In Paradisum from Requiem - Fauré

  • Daft Punk medley

Sunday 17 December’s Harpy Hour no.81 programme with soprano Olivia Warburton - Christmas Special:

  • Once In Royal David’s City

  • Hymn To A Virgin - Rubbra

  • Come Sing And Dance - Howells

  • Sussex Carol

  • He Shall Feed His Flock from The Messiaeh - Handel

  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Johnny Marks

  • Ding Dong Merrily On High

  • Interlude from A Ceremony of Carols - Britten

  • What Sweeter Music - Rutter

  • I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Gannon & Kent

  • Silent Night

  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Sunday 5 December’s no.80 Harpy Hanukkah programme celebrating Jewish artists and composers:

  • Spanish Flea - Julius Wechter

  • Song Without Words no.6 - Mendelssohn

  • Earth - Hans Zimmer

  • She’s Leaving Home - The Beatles

  • The Way He Makes Me Feel - Michel Legrand

  • Adagietto from Symphony no.5 - Mahler

  • Bei mir bist Du schoen - Sholom Secunda

  • Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan

  • Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

  • Stephen Sondheim Medley

  • Piano Encore: Piano Man - Billy Joel

    Sunday 21 November’s Harpy Hour no. 79 programme TV Special:

  • Antiques Roadshow - Reade & Gibson

  • Poldark Main Theme - Anne Dudley

  • Theme from Inspector Morse - Barrington Pheloung

  • Strictly Come Dancing Theme - McGrath & Philips

  • Fawlty Towers - Dennis Wilson

  • Adagio from Spartacus - Khachaturian

  • Midsomer Murders Waltz - Jim Parker

  • Dance of the Knights - Prokofiev

  • I’ll Be There For You (Theme from “Friends”) - Michael Skloff

  • Pink Panther - Henry Mancini

  • Intro Music to Inspector Montalbano - Franco Piersanti

  • All Creatures Great and Small - Johnny Pearson

  • Downton Abbey - John Lunn

  • The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

  • Piano Encore: Pride and Prejudice - Carl Davis

Friday 12 November’s Harpy Hour no.78 programme with cellist Abigail Hyde-Smith. Live from Bermondsey Arts Club - London Theme:

  • Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner - Hubert Gregg

  • Streets of London - Ralph McTell

  • Extract from London Symphony - Haydn

  • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Manning Sherwin

  • Hometown Glory - Adele

  • Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

  • Fantasia on Greensleeves - Vaughan Williams

  • Belonging - Chris Roe

  • On The Street Where You Live - Lerner & Loewe

  • Mary Poppins Medley - The Sherman Brothers

  • Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

    Friday 5 November’s Harpy Hour no.77 programme Bonfire Night Special:

  • Light My Fire - The Doors

  • The Rejoicing from Music For the Royal Fireworks - Handel

  • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Jerome Kern

  • Ring Of Fire - Jonny Cash

  • Firework - Katy Perry

  • I’ve Never Been In Love Before from Guys & Dolls - Frank Loesser

  • Finale from Symphony no.9 (Ode To Joy) - Beethoven

  • Amazing Grace (Gospel Style) - arr. John Turner

  • Medley of themes from The Firebird - Stravinksy

  • Piano Encore: Rocket Man - Elton John

Friday 29 October’s Harpy Halloween Hour no.76 programme:

  • Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

  • This Is Halloween - Danny Elfman

  • Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky arr. Amy Turk

  • Harp part from Symphony Fantastique 2nd movement - Berlioz

  • Funeral March of a Marionette - Gounod

  • Apparition Scene from Giselle - Adolphe Adam

  • We’re Off To See The Wizard into Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Harold Arlen

  • I Put A Spell On You - Jalacy Hawkins (Nina Simone version)

  • Danse Macabre - Saint-Saëns arr. Keziah Thomas

  • Ghostbusters Theme - Ray Parker Junior

Friday 22 October’s Harpy Hour no.75 programme celebrating Black History Month:

  • Tender Thought - Ulysses Kay

  • Essence of Ruby - Brandee Younger

  • Andante from Sonata for flute and harp - Chevalier de Saint-Georges

  • Cameo II - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

  • Spring Intermezzo - Betty Jackson King

  • Everything Must Change - Bernard Ighner

  • Ivory - Anthony Green

  • Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading

  • Ticklin’ Toes - Florence Price

  • Bethena - Scott Joplin

  • Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley

  • Something Inside So Strong - Labi Siffre

  • Piano Encore: Frog Legs Rag - James Scott

Friday 15 October’s Harpy Hour no.74 programme Art Special:

  • Vincent - Don McLean

  • The Sound of Silence - Art Garfunkel (and Paul Simon)

  • If I Were A Rich Man - Harnick & Bock

  • If - Bread

  • Danse Macabre - Saint-Saëns arr. Keziah Thomas

  • Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole

  • Vissi d’Arte - Puccini

  • Viva La Vida - Coldplay

  • Andy Warhol - David Bowie

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • Whistle-stop tour through Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky

Friday 8 October’s Harpy Hour no.73 programme James Bond Special:

  • Theme from Dr. No - Monty Norman

  • Underneath the Mango Tree - Monty Norman

  • For Your Eyes Only - Bill Conti

  • Nocturne from String Quartet no.2 - Borodin

  • No Time To Die - Bilie Eilish

  • We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong

  • Romance from “The Gadfly” - Shostakovich

  • Writing’s On The Wall - Sam Smith

  • John Barry Bond Medley

  • Live And Let Die - Linda and Paul McCartney

  • Piano Encore: Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon

Friday 1 October’s Harpy Hour no.72 programme Yorkshire Special:

  • Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs

  • Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel Version

  • La Calinda - Delius

  • Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys

  • Hallelujah Chorus - Handel

  • Yorkshire from The Calendar Girls - Gary Barlow

  • Cold Water - Ed Sheeran

  • Ilkley Moor - Trad.

  • Concierto de Aranjuez - Rodrigo arr. Ashby

  • Together In Electric Dreams - Human League

  • All Creatures Great and Small - Johnny Pearson

Friday 24 September’s Harpy Hour no.71 programme celebrating International Day of Peace:

  • Peace Train - Yusuf / Cat Stevens

  • Dona Nobis Pacem - Mozart

  • From A Distance - Julie Gold

  • Shenandoah - Trad.

  • Peace - Taylor Swift

  • All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

  • Venus, The Bringer of Peace from The Planets - Holst

  • My Sweet Lord - George Harrison

  • Sanctus from War Requiem - Britten

  • Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Pärt

  • Something Inside So Strong - Labi Siffre

  • Piano Encore: Imagine - John Lennon

Friday 17 September’s Harpy Hour no.70 Roald Dahl Special programme feat. guest readings from young Harpy Hour audience members:

  • Sweetest Thing - U2

  • Danny Boy - Trad. arr. Deborah Henson-Conant

  • The Tortoise from Carnival of the Animals - Saint-Saens

  • Peaches - Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar and Giveon

  • Revolting Children from Matilda The Musical - Tim Minchin

  • Hela’r Ysgyfarnog (Hunting the Hare) - Welsh Trad.

  • Six Variations on a Swiss Song - Beethoven

  • Theme from Tales of the Unexpected - Ron Grainer

  • When I Grow Up from Matilda The Musical - Tim Minchin

  • Bewitched - Rodgers & Hart

  • Medley of music from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Anthony Newley

  • Piano Encore: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - The Sherman Brothers

Friday 10 September’s Harpy Hour no.69 NHS Special programme:

  • All of Me - John Legend

  • We Are The Champions - Queen

  • Themes from Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Keziah Thomas

  • The Promise - Girls Aloud

  • End of the Road - Boyz II Men

  • The Trout theme - Schubert

  • Money Money Money - ABBA

  • Prisoner’s Chorus from Fidelio - Beethoven

  • Bless You For Being An Angel by The Inkspots into Nimrod by Elgar

  • The Way You Look Tonight - Jerome Kern

  • Thank You For Being A Friend - Andrew Gold

Friday 13 August’s Harpy Hour no.68 programme (highlights from the previous A-Z concerts):

  • A to C - Auld Lang Syne into James Bond Theme into Coldplay’s Clocks

  • D was for Debussy’s The Sunken Cathedral

  • G was for Good Riddance by Green Day

  • J was for Janacek’s The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away! into Jupiter by Holst

  • L and M were for Les Miserable medley by Claude-Michel Schonberg

  • S was for The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel

  • T was for Toy Story’s You’ve Got A Friend In Me by Randy Newman

  • U was for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Michel Legrand

  • V was for Vaughan William’s The Lark Ascending

  • X to Z - Xanadu into YMCA into Zorba the Greek

Friday 30 July’s Harpy Hour no.67 programme (requests starting with Z). Live from St. Endellion Festival feat. Sinead Frost (bassoon) and Robert Manasse (flute):

  • Opening from Also Sprach Zarathustra - R. Strauss

  • Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin

  • Rewrite The Stars from The Greatest Showman - Zac Efron & Zendaya

  • Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - James F. Hanley

  • The Mermaid of Zennor - Regina Ederveen

  • Zadok The Priest - Handel

  • Lara’s Theme from Dr Zhivago - Maurice Jarré

  • The Bird-Catcher’s Song from Die Zauberflöte - Mozart

  • Extract from Flute & Harp Concerto - Mozart

  • Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah - Ray Gilbert

  • Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa

  • Zorba The Greek - Mikis Theodorakis

  • Queen of the Night’s Aria from Die Zauberflöte - Mozart

Friday 23 July’s Harpy Hour no.66 programme (requests starting with Y):

  • Yellow Bird - Norman Luboff

  • Only You - Yazoo

  • Yesterday - The Beatles

  • Out of Africa - John Barry (from York)

  • You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder

  • Ye Banks And Braes O’ Bonnie Doon - Trad. (words by Robert Burns)

  • I Have A Song To Sing, O from Yeoman of the Guard - Gilbert & Sullivan

  • Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young

  • Essence of Ruby - Brandee Younger

  • The Way He Makes Me Feel from Yentl - Michel Legrand

  • River Flows In You - Yiruma

  • YMCA - The Village People

    Friday 16 July’s Harpy Hour no.65 programme (requests starting with X):

  • Theme from The X-Files - Mark Snow

  • Xylophone Sonata - Thomas Pitfield

  • Largo from Xerxes - Handel

  • Chansons pour piano no.2 & no.3 - Xenakis

  • Sonata no.15 1st movement (inspired by Xavier de Maistre) - Mozart

  • My Bird Flew Away - Feny X. Janalind

  • More Than Words - Extreme

  • Pastoral - Xixian Qu

  • Liáng Xiāo (Beautiful Night) as played on a Xiao (Chinese flute) - Liú Tiānhuá

  • Xanadu - Jeff Lynne

Friday 9 July’s Harpy Hour no.64 Wimbledon-themed programme (requests starting with W):

  • Light and Tuneful (The Wimbledon Theme) - Keith Mansfield

  • Pure Imagination from Charlie & The Chocolate Factory - Bricusse & Newley

  • Without You - Harry Nilsson

  • The Wombling Song from The Wombles - Mike Batt

  • Somewhere In My Memory from Home Alone - John Williams

  • Cavatina from The Deer Hunter (made famous by guitarist John Williams) - Stanley Myers

  • Pinball Wizard - The Who

  • Lady When I Behold - John Wilbye

  • Skater’s Waltz - Waldteufel

  • Watching The Wheat - John Thomas

  • Hiraeth - Grace Williams

  • What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

  • Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

  • Encore: Three Lions - Baddiel & Skinner

    Sunday 4 July’s Harpy Hour no.63 programme (requests starting with V):

  • Chariots of Fire - Vangelis

  • Video Games - Lana Del Ray

  • Venetian Boat Song - Mendelssohn

  • Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

  • My Funny Valentine - Richard Rodgers

  • Gavotte - Pauline Viardot

  • Harp part from Luisa Miller - Verdi

  • Boom, Boom, Boom - Vengaboys

  • The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams

  • Valse - Jongen

  • Volare - Domenico Modugno

  • The Drinking Song from La Traviata - Verdi

    Sunday 20 June’s Harpy Hour no.62 programme (requests starting with U):

  • With Or Without You - U2

  • Unchained Melody - Zaret & North

  • Unforgettable - Irving Gordon

  • Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

  • Theme from Unfinished Symphony - Schubert

  • Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

  • I Will Wait For You from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Michel Legrand

  • Impromptuuuu - Fauré

  • Song For My Father - Horace Silver

  • Ubi Caritas op.10 no.1 - Duruflé

  • Morgen - Strauss

  • Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken

  • Piano Encore: Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

Friday 11 June’s Harpy Hour {live from Snape Maltings} no.61 programme (requests starting with T). Feat. countertenor Feargal Mostyn-Williams:

  • Comptine d’un autre étè: l’après-midi from Amelie - Yann Tiersen

  • Tonight from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein

  • Cadenza and Theme from Swan Lake (arr. Keziah Thomas) - Tchaikovsky

  • Down By The Salley Gardens - arrangements by Rebecca Clarke and Britten sung by Feargal Mostyn-Williams

  • The Swan - Saint-Saëns

  • Theme from Thoroughly Modern Millie - James Van Heusen

  • Troika - Prokofiev

  • Back For Good - Take That

  • Overture and Toccata from Suite for Harp - Britten

  • Nessun Dorma from Turandot - Puccini

  • Children of the Revolution - T-Rex

  • Encore: Since We Loved - Finzi

Friday 4 June’s Harpy Hour no.60 programme (requests starting with S):

  • Shotgun - George Ezra

  • Skye Boat Song - Trad.

  • Impromptu op.90 no.3 - Schubert

  • Stardust - Nat King Cole

  • Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Silver Springs - Stevie Nicks

  • Shooting Stars - Shaily R.

  • Swipesy Cake Walk - Scott Joplin

  • Smooth Operator - Sade

  • Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim

  • Serenade for Strings - Elgar

  • Themes from Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Piano Encore : Satie Gnosienne no.1 and George Harrison’s Something mash-up

Friday 21 May’s Harpy Hour no.59 programme (requests starting with R). Feat. rhythm specialist, percussionist Simon Whittaker and talented young composers from Junior RNCM:

  • Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - Burt Bacharach

  • Roar - Katy Perry

  • Pavane pour une infante défunte - Ravel

  • Riverdance - Bill Whelan

  • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini var. 18 - Rachmaninoff

  • Mini suite of original 15 second compositions - Junior RNCM composers: Joseph B., Sam S., Riccardo S.

  • Creep - Radiohead

  • Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Tárrega

  • Lady in Red - Chris de Burgh

  • Revolting Children from Matilda the Musical - Tim Minchin

  • Mini suite of original 15 second compositions - Junior RNCM composers: Rowan T., Sam H., Daniel G.

  • Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones

  • Piano Encore: Elegie - Rachmaninoff

Friday 14 May’s Harpy Hour no.58 programme (requests starting with Q). Feat. VIP guests The Quote-makers:

  • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel

  • Tilted - Christine & The Queens

  • Que Será, Será - Livingston & Evans

  • Quando, Quando, Quando - Tony Renis

  • The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha (based on Don Quixote) - Darion & Leigh

  • Dance in the Twilight - Roger Quilter

  • Canon from Funeral Music for Queen Mary - Purcell

  • The Queen’s March - Welsh Trad.

  • Quando m’en vo from La Bohème - Puccini

  • Theme from Avenue Q - Lopez & Marx

  • Famous Aria sung by the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute - Mozart

  • Monody - Lucia Quinciani

  • Quite A View from Finding Nemo - Thomas Newman

  • Queen Medley - QUEEN

  • Piano Encore: Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones

Friday 7 May’s Harpy Hour no.57 programme (requests starting with P). Poetry requests read by actors Francesca Isherwood and Alexander Knox :

  • Petite Fleur - Sidney Bechet

  • Canon in D - Pachelbel

  • Romance in Ab - Parish Alvars

  • Purple Rain - Prince

  • Pretty Polly Oliver - Trad.

  • Prelude - Prokofiev

  • Sea Through - Mara Pruna

  • Pink Panther theme - Henry Mancini

  • Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd - Sondheim

  • Don’t Stand So Close To Me - Police

  • Piano Encore: Penny Lane - The Beatles

Friday 30 April’s Harpy Hour no.56 programme (requests starting with O):

  • Orinoco Flow - Enya

  • Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

  • Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O’Sullivan

  • Only You (And You Alone) - Ram & Rand

  • O Fortuna from Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

  • Selected songs from Oklahoma - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Old Town Road (with a bit of Oasis in) - Lil Nas X

  • O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini

  • Barcarolle - Offenbach

  • Original music by Zach Neece

  • J’ai Perdu Mon Eurydice from Orpheus and Eurydice - Gluck

  • Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

  • Piano Encore: Dream of Olwen - Charles Williams

Friday 16 April’s Harpy Hour no.55 programme (requests starting with N):

  • Nightswimming - REM

  • Never On Sunday - Manos Hadjidakis

  • Nkosi Sikelel’iAfrika - Enoch Sontonga

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

  • Nessun Dorma - Puccini

  • Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez

  • Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

  • Juanita - Caroline Norton

  • Casta Diva from Norma - Bellini

  • You’ve Got A Friend - Randy Newman

  • Nutcracker Cadenza into Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy - Tchaikovsky

  • Now Is The Hour (Maori Farewell Song) - Kaihan, Scott, Stewart

  • New York, New York - Ebb & Kander

  • New Rules - Dua Lipa

  • Piano Encore: Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon

Friday 9 April’s Harpy Hour no.54 programme (requests starting with M):

  • Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

  • Memory from Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Lied für das pianoforte op.6 no.1 - Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn

  • Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan

  • Venturing Forth from Watership Down - Angela Morley

  • Kiri’s Variation from Don Quixote - Ludwig Minkus

  • Frozen & Like A Prayer - Madonna

  • Farewell to Stromness - Peter Maxwell Davies

  • Pastoral - Moondog

  • Myfanwy - John Parry

  • Children - Robert Miles

  • Pavane - Cecilia McDowall

  • Mamma Mia - ABBA

  • Piano Encore: Marigold - Billy Mayerl

Good Friday 2 April’s Harpy Hour no.53 programme (requests starting with L):

  • Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley

  • Lara’s Theme from Dr. Zhivago - Maurice Jarre

  • Consolation no.3 - Liszt

  • Juice - Lizzo

  • Leaving On A Jet Plane - John Denver

  • Nescience - Siri Livingston

  • Largo - Handel

  • Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen

  • If Ever I Would Leave You from Camelot - Lerner & Loewe

  • Love Changes Everything from Aspects of Love - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Caruso - Lucio Dalla

  • Les Miserables medley - Claude-Michel Schonberg

Friday 26 March’s Harpy Hour 1st Birthday programme (my favourite audience requests from the past year):

  • Jazzy Canon in D - Pachelbel arr. Phil Hamm

  • Blackbird - The Beatles

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • Spring Intermezzo - Betty Jackson-King

  • Hedwig’s theme from Harry Potter into A Thousand Years - John Williams/ Christina Perri

  • Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You - Crewe & Gaudio/ Frankie Valli

  • Ostinato vo’seguire - Bartolomeo Tromboncino arr. Sinead Frost

  • The Firebird medley - Stravinsky arr. Jageurs

  • We’ll Meet Again - Parker & Charles

  • Herbie Flowers medley incl. Walk On the Wild Side, Scipio, Moon River, Thank U Very Much, Carillon, Life On Mars? and Children of the Revolution

  • Piano encore: Elton John medley arr. Nate Hance

Friday 19 March’s Harpy Hour no.51 programme (requests starting with K):

  • Somewhere Only We Know - Keane

  • Benedictus from The Armed Man - Karl Jenkins

  • Cold Little Heart - Michael Kiwanuka

  • Killing Me Softly - Charles Fox

  • Adagio from Spartacus - Khachaturian

  • “Somebody” Air arranged with variations for the harp - Anne-Marie Krumpholtz

  • Too Shy - Kajagoogoo

  • Mr Brightside - The Killers

  • Bangles, Baubles and Beads from Kismet - Wright & Forrest

  • In A Chinese Temple Garden - Albert Ketèlbey

  • Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

  • Piano Encore: Knees Up, Mother Brown

Friday 12 March’s Harpy Hour no.50 programme (requests starting with J):

  • All The Things You Are - Jerome Kern

  • Fabio’s Harp - Sabine James

  • Prelude, Allemade and Sarabande from Suite in A minor - Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

  • Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

  • Águas de Março - Antonio Carlos Jobim

  • Jesse - Janis Ian

  • Jalousie - Jacob Gade

  • The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away! - Leoš Janáček

  • The Entertainer - Scott Joplin

  • Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity from The Planet - Gustav Holst

  • Blame It On The Boogie - The Jackson 5

  • Elton John’s Greatest Piano Intros & Riffs Medley - Elton John arr. Nate Hance

  • Friday 5 March’s Harpy Hour no.49 programme (requests starting with I):

  • They Tell Us from The Indian Queen - Purcell

  • Scherzetto - Ibert

  • Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

  • The Imperial March from Star Wars - John Williams

  • I Giorni - Einaudi

  • Inchworm - Frank Loesser

  • Icelandic Folk Dance no.3 - Jón Leifs

  • What’ll I Do? - Irving Berlin

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg

  • In Paradisum from Reqiuem - Fauré

  • The Darkened Valley - John Ireland

  • Somersault Song and Sliding Song - Ruth Inglefield

  • Imagine - John Lennon

  • In a Monastery Garden - Albert Ketèlbey

Friday 26 February’s Harpy Hour no. 48 programme (requests starting with H):

  • Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles

  • Hey Duggee Theme Song - Oliver M.A. Knowles

  • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel

  • Happy - Pharrell Williams

  • Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel - Humperdinck

  • La Source - Alphonse Hasselmans

  • Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter - John Williams

  • As Time Goes By from Casablanca - Herman Hupfeld

  • Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow - Imogen Holst

  • Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/ Here Comes The Sun mash-up - George Harrison

  • Hey Jude - The Beatles

    Friday 19 February’s Harpy Hour no. 47 programme (requests starting with G):

  • Girls Like You - Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B

  • Theme from The Godfather - Nino Rota

  • Apparition of Myrtha from Giselle - Adolphe Adams

  • Good Riddance - Green Day

  • Air on the G String - J.S. Bach

  • First Movement from Sonata for Harp - Peggy Glanville-Hicks

  • Summertime - Gershwin

  • Opening of Piano Concerto - Grieg

  • Granddad - Herbie Flowers and Ken Pickett

  • Prelude and Variation from Raymonda - Glasunov

  • Nocturne - Glinka

  • Telephone - Lady Gaga

  • Tired of Being Alone into Let’s Stay Together - Al Green

  • Nocturne - Grieg

Friday 12 February’s Harpy Hour Valentine’s programme (featuring actor Alex Knox reading audience poetry):

  • Theme from Love Story - Francis Lai

  • Sixteen Going On Seventeen from The Sound of Music - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose - Scottish Trad.

  • Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison

  • Overture to Romeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky

  • My Funny Valentine - Rodgers & Hart

  • Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael/ Nat King Cole

  • The Wedding - Abdullah Ibrahim

  • Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

  • The Look of Love - Burt Bacharach

  • An Die Musik - Schubert

  • Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet - Craig Armstrong

  • The Lady Is A Tramp - Rodgers & Hart

Friday 5 February’s Harpy Hour no.45 programme (inspired by the letter “F”):

  • Light My Fire - The Doors

  • Fight Song - Rachel Platten

  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face & Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack

  • Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré

  • Theme from “Friends” - The Rembrandts

  • Forever Autumn - Jeff Wayne

  • On The Street Where You Live from “My Fair Lady” - Lerner & Loewe

  • Etude no.10 - Louise Farrenc

  • Phiton, Beste Tres Venimeuse - Magister Franciscus

  • Fields of Gold - Sting

  • Rumours Medley - Fleetwood Mac

Friday 29 January’s Harpy Hour no.44 programme (inspired by the letter “E”):

  • Edelweiss - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Can’t Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley

  • Elephant from Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns

  • Hotel California - The Eagles

  • Arietta from Lyric Pieces op.12 no.1 - Edvard Grieg

  • Song Without Words no.5 - Frederikke Egeberg

  • Endless Night from The Lion King: The Broadway Musical - Lebo M, Hans Zimmer and Jay Rifkin

  • La Vie en Rose - Edith Piaf and Louiguy

  • We Are The Music-Makers into Nimrod - Edward Elgar

  • Misty - Erroll Garner

  • Allegro de Concert (for chromatic harp) - Georges Enesco

  • Watermark into Epona into Orinoco Flow - Enya

  • Mr. Blue Sky - ELO

Friday 22 January’s Harpy Hour no.43 programme (inspired by the letter “D”):

  • The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy

  • Nine to Five - Dolly Parton

  • Flower Duet from Lakmé - Delibes

  • Fandango et Landon Portugais - Theresia Demar

  • Dripping Out the Tap - Shaily Raykundalia

  • Heroes into Let’s Dance into Life On Mars? - David Bowie

  • Claire de Lune - Debussy

  • Main Theme and Demelza’s Song from Poldark - Anne Dudley

  • La Calinda from Koanga - Delius

  • La Plus Que Lente - Debussy

  • Delilah - Les Reed & Barry Mason

Friday 15 January’s Harpy Hour no.42 programme (inspired by the letter “C”):

  • Clocks - Coldplay

  • Close Every Door from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Havana - Camilla Cabello

  • Nocturne in F minor op.55 no.1 - Chopin

  • Colourblind - Counting Crows

  • Children Will Listen from Into The Woods - Stephen Sondheim

  • Bint El Chalabiya - Trad. Arabic melody

  • Tapestry (medley of the album) - Carole King

  • Meditation from Songs Without Words - Cecile Chaminade

  • Canadian Sunset - Gimbel & Heywood

  • Cherokee - Ray Noble

  • True Colours - Cyndi Lauper

  • Fantasie-Impromptu op.66 - Chopin

Friday 8 January’s Harpy Hour no.41 programme (inspired by the letter “B”):

  • Prelude in C (book I) - J.S.Bach

  • Toccata - Natalie Bleicher

  • Allegro from Sonata no.1 in D - John Parry

  • D’un Jardin Clair - Lili Boulanger

  • Believer - Imagine Dragons

  • By the Still Waters - Amy Beach

  • I Was Kaiser' Bill’s Batman - Greenaway & Cook

  • Themes from James Bond Medley - John Barry

  • Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov - Mussorgsky

  • Courante from Lute Suite in E minor - J.S.Bach

  • All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

  • Piano Man - Billy Joel

Friday 1 January’s New Year’s Day Harpy Hour no.40 programme:

  • Moonbeams - Barbara Arens

  • Huron Carol - Jean de Brébeuf

  • Consolation no.3 - Liszt

  • The Way We Were - Marvin Hamlisch

  • I’ll See You Again from Bittersweet - Noel Coward

  • The Gartan Mother’s Lullabye - Trad. arr. Karen Perkins

  • Scipio - Herbie Flowers

  • Blue Danube - Strauss

  • Morning from Peer Gynt Suite - Grieg

  • Muscade and Pistache from Epices - Bernard Andrès

  • I Want To Break Free & Another One Bites The Dust mash-up - Queen

  • Auld Lang Syne - Trad. arr. Joyce Leong

    Thursday 24 December’s Carols by Candlelight Harpy Hour no.39 programme:

  • Once In Royal David’s City (opening solo by Xander L.)

  • Jingle Bells - James Lord Pierpont

  • Little Donkey - Eric Boswell

  • Look To The Light - Zachary Neece

  • Sussex Carol - Trad.

  • I Saw Three Ships - Trad.

  • Away In A Manger - Trad.

  • Nativity Carol - John Rutter

  • O Holy Night - Adolphe Adams

  • Ding Dong Merrily On High - Thoinot Arbeau

  • Interlude from A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten

  • Silent Night - Franz Gruber

  • We Three Kings - John Henry Hopkins Junior

  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Mendelssohn

  • We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Trad.

    Vicki Howie’s Guess Who’s In The Manger! was read by Scarlett, Tabby, Shaily and Aimée.

    Special thanks also to Katie, Patrick, Edward and Glenne for their readings and to Rev. Louise Dawson who gave a Christmas blessing.

Friday 18 December’s Christmas Party Harpy Hour no.38 programme:

  • Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano

  • Last Christmas - Wham!

  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky arr. Amy Turk

  • Someone To Watch Over Me - Gershwin

  • Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea

  • Walking In The Air - Howard Blake

  • Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) - The Darkness

  • Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Johnny Marks

  • Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin’ Stevens

  • The Girl With The Flaxen Hair - Debussy

  • All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff

  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Martin & Blane

  • I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake

  • The Fairytale of New York - Mac-Gowan & Finer

Friday 11 December’s Beethoven Special Harpy Hour no.37 programme:

  • Opening of Symphony no.5 - Beethoven

  • Für Elise - Beethoven

  • Egmont Overture - Beethoven

  • Comptine d'un autre été : L'Après-midi from the film Amélie - Yann Tiersen

  • The Harry Lime theme from The Third Man - Anton Karas

  • Adagio cantabile from Sonata Pathétique - Beethoven

  • Six Variations on a Swiss Song - Beethoven

  • One Day I’ll Fly Away - Randy Crawford

  • Adagio from Piano Concerto no.5 “Emperor” - Beethoven

  • Because - The Beatles

  • Ode to Joy from Symphony no.9 - Beethoven

  • Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry

Friday 4 December’s Harpy Hour no.36 programme:

  • Skye Boat Song - trad. Scottish

  • Speechless from Aladdin - Alan Menken

  • If - David Gates

  • Snowdrop from The Glorious Garden - Debbie Wiseman arr. Karen Perkins

  • Valse and Joueur de harpe from 10 Bagatelles - Sibelius

  • In The Bleak Midwinter - Holst arr. Whiting & Robinson

  • Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - Burt Bacharach

  • Second movement from Concierto de Aranjuez - Rodrigo arr. Dorothy Ashby

  • Tabhair Dom Do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand) - Trad. Irish

  • Baby Shark - Pinkfong

  • Harpicide at Midnight from Around the Clock Suite - Pearl Chertok

Friday 27 November’s Thanksgiving Harpy Hour no.35 programme:

  • America the Beautiful - Samuel A Ward

  • What a Difference a Day Makes - Adams & Grever

  • Linden Lea - Vaughan Williams

  • Don’t Start Now - Dua Lipa

  • Cavatina - Stanley Myers

  • Harp cadenza from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky

  • Largo from The New World Symphony - Dvorak

  • The Bare Necessities - Terry Gilkyson

  • Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet - Prokofiev

  • Thank You Very Much - The Scaffolds

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • At the River - Hymn Tune arr. Copland

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water - Paul Simon

  • American Pie & Thank You For The Music mash-up - Don McLean & ABBA

Friday 20 November’s Harpy Hour no.34 programme:

  • In the Mood - Joe Garland

  • Solace - Scott Joplin

  • Les Poissons from The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken

  • Tico Tico - Abreu/ Oliveira/ Drake

  • Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

  • Some Day My Heart Will Awake from King’s Rhapsody - Ivor Novello

  • Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken

  • Force of Destiny (half the Overture) - Verdi

  • Second movement from Piano Concerto - Nigel Hess

  • Teddy Bear’s Picnic - John W. Bratton

  • Les Abeilles - Felix Godefroid

  • La Cathédrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) - Debussy

  • Roar - Katy Perry

    Friday 13 November’s Harpy Hour no.33 programme:

  • Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

  • Our House - Crosby, Stills & Nash

  • Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  • White Cliffs of Dover - Burton & Kent

  • My Cup Runneth Over - Jones & Schimdt

  • Scarborough Fair - Trad. arr. Simon & Garfunkel

  • A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

  • Farewell to Stromness - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

  • Harp part from Nocturne - Benjamin Britten

  • We’ll Gather Lilacs - Ivor Novello

  • Pictures at an Exhibition ( a whistle-stop tour!) - Modest Mussorgsky

  • Life On Mars - David Bowie

    Friday 6 November’s Harpy Hour Bonfire Night Special programme:

  • Sky Full Of Stars - Coldplay

  • Ring Of Fire - Kilgore & Carter

  • Prelude from Suite no.1 - J.S.Bach

  • Firework - Katy Perry

  • Light My Fire - The Doors

  • The Rejoicing from Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handel arr.Burton

  • Burn from Hamilton - Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • Chariots of Fire - Vangelis

  • Fire Dance - David Watkins

  • Medley of extracts from Firebird - Stravinsky

  • Burn - Ellie Goulding

  • Rocket Man - Elton John

    Friday 30 October’s Halloween Harpy Hour programme:

  • The Murder from Psycho - Bernard Herrmann

  • I Put A Spell On You - Jay Hawkins

  • Autumn from The Four Seasons - Vivaldi

  • Scottish Medley of An Eriskay Love Lilt, Ae Fond Kiss, My Luve Is Like A Red, Red Rose - Trad.

  • Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

  • 1st movement from Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • Dance of the Little Faeries - Herbie Flowers

  • Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • Zombie - The Cranberries

  • Theme from The Addams Family - Vic Mizzy

  • Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens arr. Keziah Thomas

Friday 23 October’s Harpy Hour no.30 programme:

  • Theme from Strictly Come Dancing - McGrath & Phillips

  • Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss

  • Menuet from third movement of Sonata no.11 - Beethoven

  • If I Loved You from Carousel - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Fantasia on Greensleeves - Vaughan Williams arr. Keziah Thomas

  • Children of the Revolution - T-Rex

  • Dear To My Heart - Monika Stadler

  • Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

  • I’ve Got No Strings from Avengers trailer - Washington, Harline & Elfman

  • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Rachmaninoff

  • Fight Song - Rachel Platten

  • Soave sia il vento from Così fan tutte - Mozart

  • Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Friday 16 October’s Harpy Hour no.29 programme:

  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles

  • Menuett in F K.5 - Mozart

  • Theme song to Winnie the Pooh - Sherman & Sherman

  • Perhaps Love - John Denver

  • Opening to Impromptu - Faure

  • Sea Fever - John Ireland

  • Kiss the Girl from The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken

  • Bewitched - Rodgers & Hart

  • In An Country Garden - English trad.

  • Fugue from Suite for Harp - Benjamin Britten

  • Reverie - Debussy

  • Du bist die Ruh & Heidenröslein - Schubert

  • Creep - Radiohead

  • This Is Me from The Greatest Showman - Pasek & Paul

Friday 9 October’s Harpy Hour no.28 programme:

  • If I Were A Bell from Guys & Dolls - Frank Loesser

  • Floresta Tropical - Amanda Whiting

  • The Sally Gardens - Irish trad. arr. Britten

  • Follow the Heron - Karine Polwart

  • Fields of Gold - Sting

  • Ostinato vo’seguire - Bartolomeo Tromboncino arr. Sinead Frost

  • Waltz from Giselle - Adolphe Adams arr. Bochsa

  • Dancing Queen - ABBA

  • Ecologue for piano and string orchestra - Gerald Finzi

  • I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Whitfield & Strong

  • You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

  • Despacito - Luis Fonsi

  • Tiny Dancer - Elton John

Friday 2 October’s Harpy Hour no.27 programme:

  • Blue Moon - Rodgers & Hart

  • The Dirty Laundry Rag - Park Stickney

  • I Giorni - Ludovico Einaudi

  • Second movement from Pathetique Sonata - Beethoven

  • Weekend in New England - Barry Manilow

  • Largo - Handel

  • Hedwig’s theme from Harry Potter into Fight Song - Rachel Platten

  • She’s Leaving Home - The Beatles

  • Greensleeves - Trad.

  • Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

  • La Vie En Rose - Louiguy

  • Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Friday 25 September’s Harpy Hour goes to the movies no.26 programme:

  • Feather Theme from Forrest Gump - Alan Silvestri

  • You’ve Got A Friend from Toy Story - Randy Newman

  • Title theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Ennio Morricone

  • Title Theme from The Age of Innocence - Elmer Bernstein

  • Title Theme from Chicken Run - Powell & Gregson-Williams

  • On The Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady - Lerner & Loewe

  • Deborah’s Theme from Once Upon A Time In America - Ennio Morricone

  • I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing from Armageddon - Aerosmith

  • Title Theme from Singing in the Rain - Freed & Brown

  • Glasgow Love Theme from Love Actually - Craig Armstrong

  • Happy from Despicable Me 2 - Pharrell Williams

  • The Circle of Life from The Lion King - Elton John

Friday 18 September’s Harpy Hour no.25 programme with singer Jenny Plant:

  • Sky Full of Stars - Coldplay

  • Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

  • 7 Years - Lukas Graham

  • The John Dunbar Theme from Dancing with Wolves - John Barry

  • What A Wonderful World - Weiss and Thiele

  • Underneath Your Clothes - Shakira

  • Ocean Eyes - Billie Eilish

  • Scarborough Fair - Trad.

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water - Paul Simon

  • Mr Blue Sky - Jeff Lynne

Friday 11 September’s Harpy Hour no.24 programme:

  • Mia and Sebastian’s theme from La La Land - Justin Hurwitz

  • Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

  • Beauty and the Beast - Howard Ashman

  • Forever Autumn - Jeff Wayne

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • Somebody I Used To Know - Gotye

  • You Gotta Be - Des Ree

  • Iron Sky - Paulo Nutini

  • Clocks - Coldplay

  • The Girl With The Flaxen Hair - Debussy

  • Solitaire - Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody

  • Telephone - Lady Gaga

Sunday 6 September’s (Asia-Pacific) Harpy Hour no.23 programme:

  • Stand By Me - Ben E. King

  • La Vie en Rose - Louiguy

  • Allemande from French Suite no.1 - J.S.Bach

  • First Arabesque - Debussy

  • She’s Leaving Home - The Beatles

  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen

  • Gymopedie from The World Of Eugene Atget - Jeremy Cullen

  • The Island - Paul Brady

  • We’re the Happy team at Hawthorn - George Cohan

  • Essence of Ruby - Brandee Younger

  • Nocturne - Lennox Berkeley

  • Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader

Friday 28 August’s Harpy Hour no.22 programme:

  • My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean - Trad.

  • 7 Years - Lukas Graham

  • The Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • The Lark in the Clear Air - Sir Samuel Ferguson

  • Easy - Lionel Richie

  • Theme song from Hey Duggee - Oliver M.A. Knowles

  • My Favourite Things from The Sound of Music - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Raindrops - Naomi Lewis

  • Umbrella - Rihanna

  • 1st movement from Sonata for Harp - Hindemith

  • Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

  • What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

  • You’ll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers

  • Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Friday 21 August’s Harpy Hour Live programme

with special guests Eleanor Janes (soprano), Imogen Hancock (trumpet), Rupert Whitehead (trombone) and singer-songwriter Jenny Plant included:

  • Bring Me Sunshine - Dee & Kent

  • Sweet Gingerbread Man - Legrand, Bergman & Bergman

  • Nightswimming - R.E.M.

  • La Califfa - Ennio Morricone

  • Extracts from La Boheme - Puccini

  • Arioso from Iolanta - Tchaikovsky

  • Song To The Moon from Rusalka - Dvorak

  • O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi - Puccini

  • Trumpet and trombone duos arranged by Hancock & Whitehead

  • God Only Knows - Beach Boys

  • Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You - Crewe & Gaudio

Friday 14 August’s Harpy Hour no.20 programme:

  • Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty

  • Sway - Pablo Beltran Ruiz

  • Greensleeves - Anon.

  • Bewitched - Rodgers & Hart

  • Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce

  • A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

  • Aguas De Março - Antonio Carlos Jobim

  • Ring of Fire - Kilgore & Carter

  • Hedwig’s Theme from “Harry Potter” - John WIlliams

  • Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver

  • Tree Tops from Three Spring Miniatures - William Lloyd Webber

  • Hot Hot Hot - Alphonsus Cassell

Friday 31 July’s Harpy Hour no.19 programme:

  • Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder

  • Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor

  • The Bare Necessities - Terry Gilkyson

  • Feels Like Home - Randy Newman

  • Adagio from Clarinet Concerto in A K.622 - Mozart

  • Zombie - The Cranberries

  • Run Away - Ben Platt

  • Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes

  • Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra

  • Bethena - Scott Joplin

  • New Blues - Deborah Henson-Conant

  • Hot Toddy - Ralph Flanagan

  • What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

  • YMCA - Village People

Friday 25 July’s Harpy Hour no.18 programme:

  • In An English Country Garden - Trad.

  • People Will Say We’re In Love from “Oklahoma!” - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

  • Greensleeves - Anon.

  • City of Stars from “La la land” - Justin Hurwitz

  • I’m Kissing You - Des’ree

  • Sheep May Safely Graze - J.S.Bach

  • Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor

  • Arrival of the Birds - The Cinematic Orchestra

  • I Just Can’t Wait To Be King from “The Lion King” - Elton John

  • Forever Young - Mertens & Lloyd

  • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  • Ivory - Anthony Green

  • Humming Chorus from “Madame Butterfly” - Puccini

  • Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

  • Shackles (Praise You) - Mary Mary

Friday 17 July’s Harpy Hour no.17 programme:

  • Lovely Day - Bill Withers

  • Lava Song (Disney Pixar) - James Ford Murphy

  • Elizabethan Serenade - Ronald Binge

  • 2nd movement from Sonata in C minor - Dussek

  • Falling Slowly - Hansard & Irglova

  • Dog Days Are Over - Florence + the Machine

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • Daisy Bell - Harry Dacre

  • Suo Gan - Trad. (Wales)

  • Toccata from Suite for Harp - Benjamin Britten

  • Spanish Eyes - Bert Kaempfert

  • Habanera - Chabrier

  • Prelude no.2 “Poor Mourner’s Got A Home” - Wallace McClain Cheatham

  • Twilight Time - The Platters

  • You’ve Got A Friend - Randy Newman

Friday 10 July’s Harpy Hour no.16 programme:

  • Nuovo Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone

  • Arabesque no.1 - Debussy

  • Girl From Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim

  • Shallow from “A Star is Born” - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

  • The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls - John McCormack

  • Never On Sunday - Hadjidakis & Towne

  • Gabriel’s Oboe from “The Mission” - Ennio Morricone

  • Skye Boat Song - Trad. Scottish

  • Oh, Pretty Woman - Orbison & Dees

  • Theme from “Up” - Michael Giacchino

  • Once In A Very Blue Moon - Nanci Griffith

  • Tender Thought - Ulysses Kay

  • The Good ,The Bad And The Ugly - Ennio Morricone

  • Arabesque - Marcel Grandjany

  • Excerpt from 2nd movement of Symphony Fantastique - Berlioz

  • “Che gelida manina” from La Boheme - Puccini

  • We’ll Meet Again - Parker & Charles

Friday 3 July’s British Summer Time themed Harpy Hour no.15 programme:

  • Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - Burt Bacharach

  • Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison

  • Claire and Jamie Theme from “Outlander” - Bear McCreary

  • Summertime - Gershwin

  • Light and Tuneful (Wimbledon theme tune) - Keith Mansfield

  • Starlight Express - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Come What May - David Baerwald

  • Carillon - Herbie Flowers & Ian Gomm

  • Humming Chorus from “Madame Butterfly” - Puccini

  • Swan Descending - Per Nørgård

  • Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim

  • Essence of Ruby - Brandee Younger

  • Time - Pink Floyd

  • Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

  • Mirror Lake - Angus MacRae

  • Walking on Water - Shaily

  • Orinoco Flow - Enya

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water - Paul Simon

Friday 26 June’s Mediterranean Special Harpy Hour no.14 programme:

  • Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

  • Isle of Capri - Kennedy and Grosz

  • That’s Amore - Brooks and Warren

  • Cadenza followed by the Theme from “Swan Lake” - Tchaikovsky arr. Keziah Thomas

  • La Bamba - Trad. Mexican

  • Yellow Bird followed by Jamaica Farewell - Norman Luboff and Irving Burgie

  • Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club

  • Cuban Liberty March - Anna Gardner Goodwin

  • Speechless from “Aladdin” - Alan Menken

  • Roses of Picardy - Haydn Wood

  • Concerto - Turlough O’Carolan

  • 3rd movement from Sonata in C minor - Dussek

  • In the Summertime - Ray Dorset

  • Club Tropicana - Wham!

  • Fields of Gold - Sting

  • Under the Sea from “The Little Mermaid” - Alan Menken

  • Lovely Day - Bill Withers

Friday 19 June’s Harpy Hour lucky no.13 programme:

  • Dance of the Hours - Ponchielli

  • Meditation from “Thais” - Massenet

  • I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Whitfield and Strong

  • Dusk - Nkeiru Okoye

  • Aquarium from “The Carnival of the Animals” - Saint-Saens

  • Sailing - Gavin Sutherland

  • Swan LK243 - Catriona McKay

  • Sonatina no.6 - Naderman

  • Englishman in New York - Sting

  • Time To Say Goodbye ( Con Te Partiro) - Francesco Sartori

  • Quand j'étais roi de Béotie from “Orpheus in the Underworld” - Offenbach

  • O Mio Babbino Caro from “Gianni Schicchi” - Puccini

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • Pachelbel Canon in D-Jazzy - Pachelbel arr. Phil Hamm

  • Shake It Off - Taylor Swift

  • We’ll Meet Again - Parker and Charles

Sunday 14 June’s Asia-Pacific Harpy Hour no.3 programme:

  • Summertime - Gershwin

  • Prelude no.2 op.52 - Alphonse Hasselmans

  • Violin Sonata no.5 “Spring Sonata” 2nd movement - Beethoven

  • Begin the Beguine - Cole Porter

  • “Spring Song” no.6 from Songs Without Words - Mendelssohn

  • Into the Unknown from “Frozen 2” - Anderson-Lopez & Lopez

  • Cameo no.3 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

  • Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max

  • This Is Me from “The Greatest Showman” - Pasek & Paul

  • Timber - Pitbull feat. Kesha

  • A Prayer for Peace in Ukraine - Alina Bzhezhinska

  • River Flows in You - Yiruma

  • I’m Still Standing - Elton John

Friday 12 June’s Harpy Hour no.12 programme:

  • O’Carolan’s Dream - Turlough O’Carolan

  • Summertime - Gershwin

  • I’m Still Standing - Elton John

  • Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max

  • Into the Unknown from “Frozen 2” - Anderson-Lopez & Lopez

  • Prelude no.2 op.52 - Alphonse Hasselmans

  • This Is Me from “The Greatest Showman” - Pasek & Paul

  • Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

  • The Dream of Olwen from “While I Live” - Charles Williams

  • Autumn Leaves - Joseph Kosmas

  • Cameo no.3 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

  • Only You - Vincent Clarke

  • A Prayer for Peace in Ukraine- Alina Bzhezhinska

  • Crown - Stormzy

  • Thank You For The Music - ABBA

Sunday 7 June’s Asia-Pacific Harpy Hour no.2 programme:

  • The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy

  • Orinoco Flow - Enya

  • Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • Shotgun - George Ezra

  • All I Want Is You - U2

  • The Imperial March from “Star Wars” - John Williams

  • Everything Must Change - Benard Ighner

  • Spring Intermezzo - Betty Jackson King

    1. Etude de Concert - Felix Godefroid

    2. Timber - Pitbull feat. Kesha

    3. Nyepi - Ólafur Arnalds

    4. Comptine d’un autre été: l’après-midi from “Amélie” - Yann Tiersen

    5. At Last - Harry Warren

Friday 5 June’s Harpy Hour no.11 programme:

  • Dance Monkey - Tones and I

  • Lavender’s Blue - Trad.

  • Comptine d’un autre été: l’après-midi from “Amélie” - Yann Tiersen

  • Caledonia - Dougie MacLean

  • At Last - Harry Warren

  • One Kiss - Jessica Reyes, Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa

  • When We Were Young - Adele

  • Army Dreamers - Kate Bush

  • Everything Must Change - Benard Ighner

  • Spring Intermezzo - Betty Jackson King

  • “Moonlight” Sonata op.27 no.2 1st movement - Beethoven

  • Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House

  • Etude de Concert - Felix Godefroid

  • Nyepi - Ólafur Arnalds

  • The Circle of Life from “The Lion King” - Elton John

Sunday 31 May’s Australia & NZ Special programme:

  • Dance Monkey - Tones and I

  • Landslide - Stevie Nicks

  • Claire de Lune - Debussy

  • When You Believe from “The Prince of Egypt” - Stephen Schwartz

  • Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison

  • We’re a Happy Team at Hawthorn (AFL Football Song) - George Cohan

  • Melody from “Orfeo ed Euridice” - Gluck

  • Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

  • Cavatina from “The Deer Hunter” - Stanley Myers

  • Into the Unknown from “Frozen 2” - Anderson-Lopez & Lopez

  • Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

  • The Wind Beneath My Wings - Henley & Silbar

  • Thunderstruck - AC/DC

  • Blackbird - The Beatles

  • The Circle of Life from “The Lion King” - Elton John

Friday 29 May’s Harpy Hour “10th edition” programme:

  • Something Good from “The Sound of Music”- Richard Rodgers

  • Ave Maria - Schubert

  • Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

  • The Music of the Night - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles

  • First movement from Sonata in C minor - Dussek

  • So Nice (Summer Samba) - Marcos Valle

  • Pas de Deux - Tchaikovsky

  • You’ll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins

  • Eriskay Love-Lilt - Scottish trad. arr. Stevenson

  • Don’t Start Now - Dua Lipa

  • In the Ghetto - Scott Davis

  • Songbird - Christine McVie

  • Harpicide at Midnight - Pearl Chertok

  • Blackbird - The Beatles

  • Reach - S Club 7

Friday 22 May’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison

  • Largo from Symphony no. 9 (‘New World’) - Dvorak

  • What A Wonderful World - Weiss and Thiele

  • Somewhere from “West Side Story” - Leonard Bernstein

  • Second movement from Piano Concerto no.2 - Shostakovich

  • Summer of ‘69 - Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance

  • Bright Eyes from “Watership Down” - Mike Batt

  • First Arabesque - Debussy

  • Mexican Monterey (on lever harp) - Savourna Stevenson

  • Prelude no.12 in F minor from The Well Tempered Clavier book 2 - J.S.Bach

  • Hamilton Medley - Lin Manuel Miranda

  • Tiny Dancer - Elton John

  • Nimrod from “Enigma Variations” - Elgar

  • Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson

Friday 15 May’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • Lara’s Theme from “Dr Zhivago” - Maurice Jarre

  • You Belong to Me - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart and Chilton Price

  • The Heart Asks Pleasure First from “The Piano” - Michael Nyman

  • I Have A Dream - ABBA

  • Calon Lân - Welsh trad.

  • Your Song - Elton John

  • Edelweiss from “The Sound of Music” - Rodgers & Hammerstein

  • Lamento - Alphonse Hasselmans

  • Night Fever - The Bee Gees

  • Main Theme from “Cinema Paradiso” - Ennio Morricone

  • Story of You - Alexis Ffrench

  • A Whole New World - Alan Menken

  • How Far I’ll Go from “Moana” - Lin Manuel Miranda

  • Abide With Me - Wiliam Henry Monk

  • Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Friday 8 May’s Bank Holiday Harpy Hour programme:

  • Fireflies - Owl City

  • The John Dunbar Theme from “Dances with Wolves” - John Barry

  • The Fields of Athenry - Pete St. John

  • Never Forget You - Zara Larsson

  • Girl from Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim

  • Introduction to the opera “Iolanta” - Tchaikovsky

  • The Wedding - Abdullah Ibrahim

  • Symphony - Clean Bandit

  • Harvest Moon - Neil Young

  • The Power of Love - Gabrielle Aplin version

  • Pour le tombeau d’orphee - Marius Flothius

  • Fur Elise - Beethoven

  • My Melancholy Blues - Freddie Mercury

  • Under the Sea from “The Little Mermaid” - Alan Menken

  • The White Cliffs of Dover - Burton & Kent

Friday 1 May’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • Chandelier - SIA

  • The Sound of Silence - Paul Simon

  • Summertime - Gershwin

  • Shipyards - The Lake Poets

  • Women of Ireland - Trad.

  • Gabriel’s Oboe - Ennio Morricone

  • The Book of Love - Peter Gabriel

  • Theme from “Forrest Gump” - Alan Silvestri

  • Blame it on the Boogie - Jackson 5

  • The Way We Were - Marvin Hamslich

  • Feed the Birds - Sherman Brothers

  • Bright Eyes - Mike Batt

  • Lost Boy - Ruth B.

  • Earth from “Gladiator” - Hans Zimmer

  • Time from “Interstellar” - Hans Zimmer

  • Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli

Friday 24 April’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • Hush Little Baby - Trad.

  • Good Vibrations - Beach Boys

  • The Lily and the Rose - Bob Chilcott

  • Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince

  • Clair de Lune - Debussy

  • Bittersweet Symphony - Richard Ashcroft

  • Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys

  • All The Things You Are - Jerome Kern

  • Salut d’Amour - Elgar

  • When She Loved Me - Randy Newman

  • Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon

  • Libiamo ne’lieti calici (The Drinking Song) from La Traviata - Verdi

  • I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John

Friday 17 April’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • River Flows In You - Yiruma

  • Waltz no.2 from Suite no.2 for Jazz Orchestra - Shostakovich

  • Don’t Start Now - Dua Lipa

  • I See The Light from “Tangled” - Alan Menken

  • Jesus Christ is Risen Today followed by All Through the Night

  • Sanctus from Requiem - Faure

  • Smile - Charlie Chaplin

  • Zelda’s Lullaby - Koji Kondo

  • Dawn from “Pride and Prejudice” - Dario Marianelli

  • Dancing On My Own - Calum Scott

  • Cavatina from “The Deer Hunter” - Stanley Myers

  • Amazing Grace

Good Friday’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • Waltz of the Flower’s cadenza from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky

  • Theme from the film “Up”

  • Come Away With Me - Nora Jones

  • Downton Abbey Suite - John Lunn

  • To Build A Home - Cinematic Orchestra

  • Moon River - Henry Mancini

  • Caniad y Gwyn Bibydd “Song of the White Piper” (c.1613) - Robert ap Huw transcribed by Peter Greenhill, arr. Joseph Davies

  • Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeplin

  • Gabriel’s Oboe - Ennio Morricone

  • Dance Monkey - Tones and I

  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me - Randy Newman

Friday 3 April’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • Justin Hurwitz - Mia and Sebastian’s Theme (from La La Land)

  • Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

  • Luis Fonsi - Despacito

  • The Beatles - Blackbird

  • Korb & Roever - Highland Cathedral

  • Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

  • J.S.Bach arr. Grandjany - Andante from Violin Sonata no.2

  • Phil Coulter - Home Away From Home

  • Jamie Lonsdale - My Fault?

  • Rodgers & Hammerstein (Gerry & The Pacemakers version) - You’ll Never Walk Alone

  • Billie Eilish - No Time To Die

  • Paul Simon - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Friday 27 March’s Harpy Hour programme:

  • The Police - Don’t Stand So Close To Me

  • Pachelbel - Canon in D

  • The Beatles - Strawberry Fields

  • Vesper no.1 - Rachmaninoff

  • Stevie Nicks - Dreams

  • Gaga/ Cooper - Shallow

  • Spice Girls - Mama

  • Ludovico Einaudi - Questa Notte

  • Earth, Wind and Fire - After The Love Has Gone

  • Carole King - You’ve Got A Friend

  • ABBA - Mamma Mia

Harpy Hour schedule and themes for audience requests:

Friday 10 Sep 6pm - NHS Special

Friday 17 Sep 6pm - Roald Dahl and readings from young audience members

Friday 24 Sep 6pm - International Day of Peace

Friday 1 Oct -6pm Yorkshire theme

Friday 8 Oct 6pm - James Bond theme in partnership with London Cocktail Week

Friday 15 Oct 6pm - The Big Draw in partnership with London Cocktail Week

Friday 22 Oct 6pm - 75th Harpy Hour in partnership with London Cocktail Week

Friday 29 Oct 6pm - Halloween Special

Friday 5 Nov 6pm - Bonfire Night Special

Friday 12 Nov 6pm - Harpy Hour Live from Bermondsey Arts Club, London. Tickets available here.