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2020-06-25 06:25:04
Icelandic experimentalism: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson's Sinfonia explores non-traditional tunings and alternative notations
[…] the composer is talking to his performers using a new language. It is, of course, helpful that Gunnarsson is a performer himself, and the music on the disc is the result of this long process of experimentation, creation and performance. Sinfonia was premiered by Ensemble Fengjastrútur at Mengi on 8 March 2019 and they went into the studio two days later. The performers were Páll Ivan frá Eiðum, Þórunn Björnsdóttir and Björn Davíð Kristjánsson (wind), Andrés Þór Þorvarðarson, Ásthildur Ákadóttir and Gunnar Grímsson (percussion) and Svanur Vilbergsson, Hallvarður Ásgeirsson and Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (plucked strings), all this information and the pictures are taken from another informative post on Gunnarsson's website. Sinfonia takes an apparently traditional shape, with four contrasting movements, but there is nothing traditional about Gunnarson's sound world. Part of the freedom of the music is the way he treats the non-traditional instruments, it feels different, […]
2020-04-03 08:08:39
A new recording of Handel's first version of Messiah (Dublin 1742) with a largely German speaking cast
Handel Messiah; Dorothee Mields, Benno Schachtner, Benedikt Kristjansson, Tobias Berndt, Gaechinger Cantorei, Hans-Christoph Rademann; Accentus Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 1 April 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The quirky first, Dublin version of Handel's masterpiece from a German choir with a long history of performing Baroque musicAnyone with a moderately long memory will associate the name of the Gaechinger Cantorey with the conductor Helmut Rilling who directed the choir (then called the Gächinger Kantorei) for several decades and developed an impressive pedigree in Baroque music albeit in a style which was larger scale and less attuned to period practice than is the case nowadays. Founded in 1954 by Rilling, since the 2013 the ensemble has been directed by Hans-Christoph Rademann and the choir was refounded and re-named as a smaller ensemble with a period instrument orchestra, rather more in the contemporary historically informed style. Whilst Bach remains the […]
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2019-04-19 02:06:00
The best new classical albums: April 2019
[…] about the work since the Claves booklet writes only about the performers and the Internet has yet to catch up on the Weinberg centenary wave. But rest assured that this is an indispensable addition to the cello repertoire and the main theme is one that you'll think you have known all life long.I don't care what happens in the next eight months. This is my record of the year for 2019.Source: Norman Lebrecht (myscena.org) Benedikt Kristjánsson – Drang in die FerneBenedikt Kristjánsson, tenorTillmann Höfs, hornAlexander Schmalcz, pianoRecorded August 16-18, 2018 at Teldex, Berlin, GermanyReleased on April 5, 2019 by GenuinIt sounds like being in a dreamland when Icelandic tenor Benedikt Kristjánsson sings folksongs from his homeland. For his first Genuin album, the first-prize winner of the Greifswald International Singing Competition and Audience Award winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition has teamed up with the sought-after accompanist Alexander Schmalcz. Schmalcz congenially […]
2019-01-23 07:36:56
Reverie - Icelandic art songs
[…] time when Icelandic poetry and song was an important part of the national liberation movement (Iceland was a Danish dependency until 1918). There are also songs on the disc by other older composers alongside those by more recent composers. If you peruse the biographies of many of the composers on the disc, it is fascinating to see how the oldest generation wrote music on the side, more recent composer such as Sigurður Þórðarson and Markús Kristjánsson studied music in Copenhagen and in Leipzig, and the most recent generation started out at Reykjavik music college (which was founded in 1930).We begin with a song by Kaldalóns, the title track, which features Pálsson with Sophie Marie Schoonjans on harp. It is a lovely song, late-Romantic and folk-influenced in style yet what strikes me most was the lovely musical sound of the Icelandic language, and that is true for many of the songs […]
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