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Recent Releases No. 63 (CD Reviews)
[…] For those who enjoy Baroque counterpoint, especially those who might be curious about the music of Purcell, this gloriously performed and engineered ECM release is certainly well worth seeking out.Sigur Rós: Átta. Glóð; Blóðberg; Skel; Klettur; Mór; Andrá; Gold; Ylur; Fall; 8. Sigur Rós (Jón Dór Birgisson [“Jónsi”], guitar, vocals; Georg Holm, bass; Kjartan Sveinsson, keyboards, synthesizers); Strings performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames; Brass on Klettur and 8 performed by Brassgat í bala; Percussion on Glóð, Klettur, Gold, and 8 performed by Ólafur Björn Ólafsson. Additional violin on Klettur performed by Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttír. BMG 538920412 I was just about ready to write that although I have occasionally reviewed releases by jazz artists previously in Classical Candor, on the grounds that jazz can be reasonably thought of as a form of chamber music, I have not yet reviewed a release by a rock group – but then I suddenly remembered a couple of posts that I made that although technically may not have been reviews of releases by rock groups, […]
2021-02-21 01:06:00
From the press release, with interjections from me: Bang on a Can February 21, 2021 Marathon Performance Schedule Every piece on the program is a world premiere of a newly commissioned work. Set times are approximate and subject to change. The times are EASTERN TIME. On the West Coast, this starts at 10 a.m. View at: live.bangonacan.org Related: SF Chron critic Joshua Kosman writes about Bang on a Can and William Robin's new book Industry William Robin interviewed at I Care if You Listen William Robin and Alex Ross talk about Industry and new music Buy Industry from Oxford University Press (or your local bookstore) 1PM Jakhongir Shukur Potter's Wheel, performed by Robert Black Jennifer Walshe Happiness Starts Right Now, performed by herself Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir Pending, performed by Chi-chi Nwanoku Amir Elsaffar new work performed by Ken Thomson 2PM Gregory […]
2021-02-18 06:21:00
A Roundup of Recent Releases (CD Reviews)
[…] well worth an audition, especially when presented in such excellent sound quality as they are here. Times are indeed tough out there right now, but thank goodness for music to help sustain our minds and spirits.Sigfúsdóttir: Kom vinur. Horous Askelsson, Schola Cantorum. Sono Luminus SLE-70019. I feel impelled at the outset to point out that this is an EP containing less than 10 minutes of music, but what beautiful music it is! Icelandic composer Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (b. 1980) writes of the two compositions on this recording that they are “composed to poems by the Icelandic poet Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir. The poems are the absolute core of the pieces; when composing them, I felt like excavating music from the text, unravelling hidden sounds from the words. Kom vinur has a somber undertone, a sense of loneliness and longing for sharing light and thoughts with a friend in the dark winter night. […]
2020-11-13 09:27:47
I have just finished reading Neil Price's terrific book Children of Ash and Elm, [Amazon, Hive] about the Vikings and their culture, and under its influence I am trying to read some of the primary sources, in translation, starting with The Sagas of the Icelanders [Amazon, Hive] so I was more than intrigued when this popped into my inbox this week. Odin's Raven Magic is an orchestral work created as a collaboration between a diverse group of Icelandic musicians, the band Sigur Rós, the musician Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, the most respected chanter of Iceland’s traditional epic narrative known as Rímur and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (from the string quartet Amiina). The work is inspired by the 14th or 15th century poem Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Odin's Raven Magic) which is associated with (scholars disagree about its origins) the Poetic Edda one of the two major written sources of our knowledge of […]
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