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Suites and Waltzes from East and West
For a number of years Tríó Sírajón has researched and performed works written for this rather unusual instrumental combination. For this programme the trio has selected colourful works that form stark contrasts. There is no corresponding group working on a regular basis in Iceland, so these compositions are not often heard in this country, and some have never been performed here before. Geographically these works form a triangle of sorts: Iceland – Russia – France. Poulenc’s fanciful and funny theatre music is premiered here, and the same can be said of Atli Heimir Sveinsson’s work Erinnerungen – Memories. The Russian school strongly influences the programme with works by the Armenian composers Kachaturian (who visited Iceland in 1951 and worked with the newly founded Iceland Symphony Orchestra for a few months and was a great inspiration) and Arutiunian, both of whom were educated in Moscow. There they met the genius from St. Petersburg, Shostakovich, who shows his comically charming side here in the three short pieces. Pál Pampichler Pálsson’s Nocturne creates a sweetly melancholic sunset mood. The Austrian born composer, who spent most of his working life in Iceland as a pioneering influence on musical life in this country, has now retired to his birthplace in Graz.
08.09.2019 Passion and Malice
15.09.2019 Women of Note
29.09. 2019 The Chamber Music Society #1: Brahms & Tanyev
06.10.2019 Camerarctica – Mozart arias and Brahms
20.10.2019 The Chamber Music Society #2: Mozart & Schumann
27.10.2019 Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra – Three Frenchmen and Schumann
03.11.2019 Icelandic Songs with Ragnheiður Gröndal
10.11.2019 Sólveig Thoroddsen – The Harp in Harp
17.11.2019 The Chamber Music Society #3 – Camerarctica
24.11.2019 Sonatas for Cello and Piano
08.12.2019 Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra Christmas Concert
19.01.2020 The Chamber Music Society #4 – Kodály and Rakhmaninov
26.01.2020: Popular Romantic Lieder
02.02.2020 Brák Baroque Ensemble
09.02.2020 Stirni Ensemble
16.02.2020 Hulda Jónsdóttir and Gudrun Dalia
16.02.2020 Anna Sóley Ásmundsdóttir and Ensemble
23.02.2020 Suites and Waltzes from East and West
01.03.2020 Cauda Collective
08.03.2020 The Chamber Music Society #5 – Siggi String Quartet
15.03.2020 The Chamber Music Society #6 – Weinberg and Shostakovich
22.03.2020: Björk Níelsdóttir and Matthildur Anna – Total Chaos
29.03.2020 Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra – Beethoven for 250 years
13.04.2020 Minua Jazz Trio
19.04.2020 Bach and the Children – Icelandic Strings
03.05.2020 Brahms – Zemlinsky – Alma Mahler
10.05.2020 String Quartets
24.05.2020 Brák Baroque Ensemble