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
Etude de Concert - Felix Godefroid
Timber - Pitbull feat. Kesha
Nyepi - Ólafur Arnalds
Comptine d’un autre été: l’après-midi from “Amélie” - Yann Tiersen
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.