Annette Bjorling - Harpist
Performances & Events & Lessons
around Chicago & wherever my music takes me
wedding harpist, funerals, memorials, harp music, pop harp, broadway harp, jazz
harp, chicago harpist
Repertoire List
This is a list with my current repertoire. It's probably never quite complete,
but it should give you a good idea about what I can play...
I am always happy to try to arrange special requests as well.
(Where and when available are links to sound and/or video examples of the
mentioned pieces.
And yes, they are sorted in categories, and some pieces might appear more than
once...)
Broadway
Excerpts from following musicals:
A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim)
Anyone Can Whistle (Stephen Sondheim)
Anything Goes (Cole Porter)
Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Fantasticks (Harvey Schmidt)
Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock)
My Fair Lady (Fredericl Loewe)
Oaklahoma (Richard Rodgers)
Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Westside Story (Leonard Bernstein)
Sound of Music (Richard Rodgers)
Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim)
Jazz, 30s-50s Era Hits, & Contemporary
Ain't Misbehaving (Fats Waller)
Alone (Nacio Herb Brown)
Anniversary Waltz (Josef Ivanovici)
As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld)
At Last (Etta James)
Blue Skies (Irving Berlin)
Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington)
Dream a Little Dream (Gus Kahn)
Embraceable You (George Gershwin)
Everybody Loves Somebody (Koslove/Taylor/Lane)
Fascination (F.D. Marchetti)
Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard)
How Deep is the Ocean (Irving Berlin)
How High the Moon (Morgan Lewis)
I Can't Help Falling in Love With You (G.D. Weiss)
I Can't Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)
I got Rhythm (George Gershwin)
James (Pat Metheny)
La Vie En Rose (Louis Guglielmi)
Love is Here to Stay (George Gershwin)
Misty (Erroll Garner)
Moon River (Henry Mancini)
Nataliana (Deborah Henson-Conant)
Nightingale (Deborah Henson-Conant)
Mr Sandman (Pat Ballard)
My Funny Valentine (Rodgers / Hart)
Oh, Lady Be Good (George Gershwin)
Puttin' on the Ritz (Irving Berlin)
'S Wonderful (George Gershwin)
Softly, Like in a Morning Sunrise (Romberg)
Slowly (David Raksin)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael)
Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen)
Sweet Sue, Just You (Fats Waller)
Take Five (Paul Desmond)
What a Wonderful World (Bob Thiele / (G.D. Weiss)
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)
Wedding Classics
Wagner's “Bridal Chorus”
Mendelssohn's “Wedding March”
Pachelbel's “Canon in D”
Bach's “Jesu, Joy of Men’s Desiring”
“Ave Maria” - both, by Schubert & by Bach/Gounod
...and many more...
Renaissance Era
Various pieces by German, Spanish, Italian and English 15th-17th century
composers, like:
Castaneda, Coperario, Dalla Casa, Frescobaldi, Gibbons, Jenkins, Lasso, Purcell,
...
sound examples (ensembles):
Baroque Era
J.S. Bach - various works, for example:
Air on a G string
Arioso
Ave Maria (with Gounod's melody)
Jesu, Joy of Men's Desiring
Minuets (from Magdalena Notebook)
Preludes
Sheep May Safely Graze
Sleepers Awake
G.F. Handel - various works, for example:
Aria, Air
Chaconne, Pasacaglia
Largo, Sarabanda
Thema con Variazioni,
excerpts from Messiah, Water Music, etc.
J. Pachelbel
Canon in D (- THE famous one, for brides' processionals ... ;-)
Ciaconna
H. Purcell - various works, for example:
Air, Chaconne (from Fairy Queen),
Hornpipe, Trumpet Voluntary
J.P. Rameau - various Minuets, Tambourin, etc.
G.F. Telemann - various Minuets, Sonatinas, etc.
A. Vivaldi - excerpts from Four Seasons
Holiday Music
Annette plays many, many Christmas Carols, Songs and Melodies, in any of the
above listed styles
(Pop, Jazz, Classical Favorites, Traditional Carols, Celtic Christmas, ...).
Also Hanukkah melodies, and other Holiday or Winter themed, seasonal music.
The list would be too long to place here...
Originals by Annette Bjorling
...as soon there are more sound examples available, they will appear here. Meanwhile, please contact Annette, if you like to know more details. Thank you.
Popular Music
Annie's Song (John Denver)
As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
Clocks (Coldplay)
Don't You Know (Bobby Worth)
Every Breath You Take (Sting)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard)
Heaven (Bryan Adams)
I Can't Help Falling in Love With You (G.D. Weiss)
I Can't Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)
I Made it Through the Rain (Barry Manilow)
I’m Walking in the Air (Howard Blake)
Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
La Vie En Rose (Louis Guglielmi)
Living on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
Luckiest (Ben Fold)
Moon River (Henry Mancini)
Mr Sandman (Pat Ballard)
Prayer (Celine Dion) (Carole Bayer Sager / David Foster)
Rainbow Connection (Paul Williams)
Smile (Charles Chaplin)
Something (Beatles)
Somewhere in Time (John Barry)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
Sound of Silence (Paul Simon)
Stairway to Heaven (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant)
Stand by Me (Ben E. King)
Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael)
Starry, Starry Night / Vincent (Don McLean)
Time in a Bottle (Jim Croce)
Then (Brad Paisly)
Truly Madly Deeply (Savage Garden)
Weekend in New England (Randy Edelman)
What a Wonderful World (Bob Thiele / G. D. Weiss)
When you Believe (Maria Carey, Whitney Houston)
Themes from Movies, TV & Games
Downton Abbey Suite (John Lunn - Downton Abbey)
Ending Theme (N. Uematsu - Final Fantasy X)
Forrest Gump (Alan Silvestri - Forrest Gump)
I’m Walking in the Air (Howard Blake - The Snowman)
Memories of Sherlock (Hans Zimmer - Game of Shadows)
My Heart Will Go On (James Horner - Titanic)
Rainbow Connection (Paul Williams - The Muppet Movie)
Smile (Charles Chaplin - Chaplin / also: Modern Times)
Somewhere in Time (John Barry - Somewhere in Time)
Storybook Love (Willy De Ville - Princess Bride)
Suicide Is Painless (Mike Altman - MASH)
Tender Shepheard (Mark Charlap - Peter Pan)
The Party (Henry Mancini - The Party)
Third Man Theme (Anton Karas - The Third Man)
Thornbirds (Henry Mancini - Thornbirds)
To Zanarkand (N. Uematsu - Final Fantasy X)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Michel Legrand)
Up (Michael Giacchino - Up)
Classical Era
L. v. Beethoven - various works, for example:
Für Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Sonatas, etc.
F. Chopin - various works, for example:
Waltzes, Mazurkas, Preludes, Impromptu, etc.
W.A. Mozart - various works, for example:
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Minuet, Tartine à Beurre, etc.
J. Nadermann - Sonatas
F. Schubert - Ave Maria
L. Spohr - Air, Sonatinas
French Impressionists
Claude Debussy - various works, for example:
La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin, Rêverie, etc.
Gabriel Fauré - various works, for example:
Marcel Grandjany - various works, for example:
Rêverie op. 7, Trois pieces petits, etc.
Alphonse Hasselmanns
Erik Satie
Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, Fantasies
20th-21st Century Composers
Bernard Andres - various works, for example:
Dyades, Epices, Jonchets, Preludes, etc.
Béla Bartók - Evening in the Village, Romanian Dances
Gustav Holst - Jupiter Theme from the Planets
Alan Hovhanness - Nocturne, Sonata
European Ethnic Music
Celtic, French, German, Greek,
Mediterranean, Romanian,Turkish
Annette’s specialty: Klezmer music
sound examples - trad klezmer, unless noted:
video examples (klezmer-duo):
Annette’s ethnic repertoire spans several hours...
Most of the pieces are not commonly known by specific names and titles. They are
named after types, modes, dances, etc.
Copyright Annette Bjorling © 2012