Icelandic Composers

[vandermolen]

There's no generic thread so I thought I'd start one just to draw attention to a very fine work. The 'Slatta' Piano Concerto by the impressively long-lived female Icelandic composer Jorunn Vidar (1918-2017). The third movement was played on the radio this morning and I found the slow movement on You Tube. Very engaging and catchy last movement and a lyrical slow movement. I was really impressed by this work:

Here's the slow movement:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-a8svCap5PU

[Roy Bland]

Thanks! I am  favorably impressed from Piano Concerto

[JBS]

I recently got this. Icelandic string quartet playing music by contemporary Icelandic composers (one of them is in fact the first violinist of the quartet).
I  have not listened to it enough to make a firm judgment about the music. Fair Flowers by Mamiko Dis Ragnarsdotter was the piece that most impressed me, however.
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[vandermolen]

Thanks! I am  favorably impressed from Piano Concerto

Pleased to hear it! The last movement is rather 'catchy' when I heard it on the radio yesterday morning and made me want to hear the rest of the work, which immediately goes on to my 'favourite works by a female composer list'.

[vandermolen]

I recently got this. Icelandic string quartet playing music by contemporary Icelandic composers (one of them is in fact the first violinist of the quartet).
I  have not listened to it enough to make a firm judgment about the music. Fair Flowers by Mamiko Dis Ragnarsdotter was the piece that most impressed me, however.
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Interesting thanks for posting this Jeffrey.