Works from Iceland performed by the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra
UK premieres of works from Iceland performed by the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Plus extracts from Bara Gisladottir's Mass for double bass, voice and electronics. With Tom Service.
Contemporary music from Iceland.
Tom Service presents the UK premieres of four orchestral works from Iceland, especially recorded by the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Haukur Tómasson writes a work of brooding intensity for orchestra without brass, inspired by the repetitive sounds of the weaver's loom. A solo cello and chamber orchestra provides the pallet for Páll Ragnar Pálsson's Quake. But are his eruptions those of the physical world or some sort of emotional torment? Meanwhile, Valgeir Sigurdsson addresses not the elemental force of one of Iceland's most dramatic volcanic eruptions but its aftermath as, in 1875, hundreds of Icelanders emigrate to Canada. In Anna Thorvaldsdóttir's Dream, a quiet sound world is born from silence. As she writes: "In each chord there is a world of collective sounds where the small particles dissolve and create their own world." Also on the programme, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir plays some works for solo cello and movements from a new album from Bára GÃsladóttir.
Haukur Tómasson: From Darkness Woven
Páll Ragnar Pálsson: Quake
Valgeir Sigurdsson: Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir: Dreaming
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir (cello)
Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Also tonight, some Icelandic works for solo cello and movements from Bára GÃsladóttir's Mass for double bass, voice and electronics, a work which, she says, she had to write 'to save my sanity.'
ÞurÃður Jónsdóttir: 48 Images of the Moon
Halldór Smárason: 3 movements from ☉
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir (cello)
Bára GÃsladóttir: Mass for some
Bára GÃsladóttir (voice, double bass and electronics)
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Halldór Smárason
3 movements from ☉
Performer: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir. -
Haukur Tómasson
From Darkness Woven
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. -
Páll Ragnar Pálsson
Quake
Performer: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. -
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. -
ThurÃdur Jónsdóttir
48 Images of the Moon (extract)
Performer: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir. -
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Dreaming
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. -
Bára GÃsladóttir
Mass for Some (6th, 7th and 8th movements)
Performer: Bára GÃsladóttir.- Mass for Some.
- Mengi Records.
- 6-8.
Broadcast
- Sat 16 Mar 2019 22:00Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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