{"id":4606,"date":"2019-01-23T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:00:15","slug":"the-world-famous-requiem-by-alfred-schnittke-and-two-icelandic-premieres-with-schola-cantorum-sunday-january-26-at-4-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/the-world-famous-requiem-by-alfred-schnittke-and-two-icelandic-premieres-with-schola-cantorum-sunday-january-26-at-4-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"The world famous Requiem by Alfred Schnittke and two Icelandic premieres with Schola cantorum Sunday January 26 at 4 pm."},"content":{"rendered":"

Schola Cantorum will perform along with an unusual chamber ensemble Requiem by Alfred Schnittke as well as Ave verum corpus and Diliges Dominum (premiere) by Sigur\u00f0 S\u00e6varsson, in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja, January 27th. at 4pm. The concert is in collaboration with the Reykjav\u00edk Dark Music Days and the Hallgrimskirkja Friends of the Arts Society,<\/p>\n

Requiem by Alfred Schnittke is a melancholy composition. The real-life sound of the psalm fluctuates between the inward reflection of rock and theatrical musical nuances with the support of electric bass and guitar with an unexpected input from the percussion section. It is exciting to bring together an Icelandic professional group and ensemble in the 44-year-old composition where the old Requiem text is conveyed effectively as the music is both classic and modern with the influence of rock and theater music.<\/p>\n

Icelandic composer Sigur\u00f0ur S\u00e6varsson (b.1963) has recent years been productive in writing choir music, both a capella and with instruments as well. He is known for his clear, minimalistic style and luminous texture. \u201cI want the listener to hear every note and where it is going \u2013 that way, there is also more chance of the text coming across clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ave verum corpus and Diliges Dominum are both composed in 2018. They are a part of a series of a cappella choir works by S\u00e6varsson written that year to Latin text.<\/p>\n

\"Requiem<\/a><\/p>\n

Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis was founded in 1996 by the conductor H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00c1skelsson, the cantor at Hallgr\u00edmskirkja (Hallgrim\u2019s Church) in Reykjav\u00edk. Schola Cantorum has from the very start played an important role in the Icelandic music scene with a repertoire that consists mainly of renaissance, baroque and contemporary music including numerous premier performances of works by Icelandic composers.<\/p>\n

Schola Cantorum has given concerts in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France and Japan. In 2017 Schola Cantorum was invited by Los Angeles Philharmonic to sing 4 concerts in Walt Disney Concert Hall during Reykjav\u00edk Festival in LA.<\/p>\n

The choir can be heard in many recordings including complete choral\/orchestral works of Icelandic composer J\u00f3n Leifs issued by Swedish label BIS. The choir has also worked with artists such as Bj\u00f6rk, Sigur R\u00f3s, J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannson, and Swedish experimental band Wildbirds & Peacedrums. Schola Cantorum appears widely on the musical spectrum. For instance the choir sings in the soundtrack of the action-adventure video game God of War released by Sony in April 2018.<\/p>\n

Schola Cantorum was appointed by Iceland Music Awards as the Performer of the year 2016.<\/p>\n

Ensemble:
\nGuitar: Dan\u00edel Fri\u00f0rik B\u00f6\u00f0varsson
\nOrgan: Bj\u00f6rn Steinar S\u00f3lbergsson
\nPiano: Anna Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir
\nCelesta: Helga Brynd\u00eds Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir
\nElectric bass: Richard Korn
\nPercussion: Steef van Oousterhout, Eggert P\u00e1lson, P\u00e9tur Gr\u00e9tarsson og Frank Aarnink
\nTrombone: Carlos Caro Aguilera
\nTrumpet: Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn P\u00e1lsson<\/p>\n

Soloists: Thelma Hr\u00f6nn Sigurd\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, Lilja D\u00f6gg Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir, Gu\u00f0mundur Vignir Karlsson, Rakel Edda Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir and Vigd\u00eds Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/p>\n

Conductor: H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00c1skelsson<\/p>\n

Ticket price: 4.500 kr.<\/p>\n

Ticket sales on Tix.is<\/a> and in Hallgr\u00edms church -open daily 9am-5pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schola Cantorum will perform along with an unusual chamber ensemble Requiem by Alfred Schnittke as well as Ave verum corpus and Diliges Dominum (premiere) by Sigur\u00f0 [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}