Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Choral works
Asgeir H. Steingrimsson (trumpet), Elisabet Waage (harp), Steef van Oosterhout (percussion), Bjorn Steinar Solbergsson (organ)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavik, Hordur Askelsson
The music has the calming, a cappella air of “spiritual polyphony” – sometimes dreamily tuneful, sometimes bleak and eerie...Many of these small-scale pieces were commissioned by the Schola...
Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Choral works
Asgeir H. Steingrimsson (trumpet), Elisabet Waage (harp), Steef van Oosterhout (percussion), Bjorn Steinar Solbergsson (organ)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavik, Hordur Askelsson
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The music has the calming, a cappella air of “spiritual polyphony” – sometimes dreamily tuneful, sometimes bleak and eerie...Many of these small-scale pieces were commissioned by the Schola...
About
Resonus Classics is delighted to present an album featuring the choral music by the celebrated Icelandic composer Hafliði Hallgrímsson. Performed by Schola Cantorum Reykjavík under the direction of their conductor Hörður Áskelsson, this album includes the three-movement work Níunda Stund originally written in 1993 and revised in 2006; Rúra, rúra barni from 2010 and Endurkoma written in 2012.
Contents and tracklist
- Asgeir H. Steingrimsson (trumpet)
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2011 and March 2012
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
- Elisabet Waage (harp)
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2008
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2011 and March 2012
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2011 and March 2012
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2011 and March 2012
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2011 and March 2012
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
- Steef van Oosterhout (percussion), Bjorn Steinar Solbergsson (organ)
- Schola Cantorum Reykjavik
- Hordur Askelsson
- Recorded: February 2011 and March 2012
- Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
Awards and reviews
15th February 2013
The music has the calming, a cappella air of “spiritual polyphony” – sometimes dreamily tuneful, sometimes bleak and eerie...Many of these small-scale pieces were commissioned by the Schola Cantorum Reykjavik, who bring them beautifully to life.
April 2013
[Niunda Stund] is the most varied and extrovert work here. Elsewhere, the emphasis is on a certain pan-tonal Nordic brooding, whose dissonance quotient varies from piece to piece...The bright tone of the Schola Cantorum Reykjavik carries a subdued undertow of darker colours, which matches the music's aesthetic very well.
