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Björg Brjánsdóttir & Bára Gísladóttir – GROWL POWER

Smekkleysa — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:22:45 +0000

Over the last years, Björg and Bára have enjoyed a most fruitful collaboration in writing and performing new music for the flute. In 2022, Bára wrote this group of four pieces, to be performed with or without electronics. The pieces are tributes to four different flutes:

GROWL POWER is written for the deep, resonant bass flute,
ever out after dark (or blue lady in a boring city) is written for alto flute and a blue lady,
GLÓÐ|STELPA is written for c flute (the title might be roughly translated to “intersection of embers and girl“),
and Stars with Shadows (on vast void and whatnot) is written for the piccolo flute.

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viibra -viibra

Smekkleysa — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:37:57 +0000

	1.	Venutian Wetlands 04:31 video
	2.	CD PLAYERS 07:00 video
	3.	kvoða 04:18 video
	4.	Mundana X 06:59 video
	5.	Eyg 04:10 video
	6.	Ms. Ephemeris Abyss 18:52 video

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Ólafur Arnalds – Variations of Static 10″

Smekkleysa — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:46:18 +0000

Fok
Við Vorum Smá…
Haust
Lokaðu Augunum
Himininn Er Að Hrynja En Stjörnurnar Fara þér Vel

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Víkingur Ólafsson – Bach: Continuum

Smekkleysa — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:59:17 +0000

Tracklist:

A1 – Es ist vollbracht (Cantata, BWV 159)
A2 – Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (Cantata, BWV 21)
A3 – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (Cantata, BWV 150)
B1 – Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614
B2 – Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Cantata, BWV 12)
B3 – Komm, süßer Tod, BWV 478

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Jóhann Jóhannsson, Echo Collective – 12 Conversations with Thilo

Smekkleysa — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 13:52:08 +0000

Lagalisti

Manifest
Low
Stuk
Shell
Zurich
Harm
Lacrimosa
Pol
Form
Arc
Danse
Gold

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Jóhann Jóhannsson – Piano Works

Smekkleysa — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:51:10 +0000

Contents

A Game of Croquet (from The Theory of Everything)

A Model of the Universe (from The Theory of Everything)

Bað

A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder

Be Over (from The Shadow Play soundtrack)

Beauty (from Blind Massage)

By the Roes, and by The Hinds of the Field

Dressing Up (from Personal Effects)

The Drowned World

Eleven Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty-Nine Died of Natural Causes

Englabörn (piano version)

Flight From The City

Flugeldar II

Good Morning, Midnight

He Says It’s the Future

Indian Wedding (from Personal Effects)

Innocence (from Free The Mind)

Já, Hemmi Minn

Jói & Karen

Linda and Walter (from Personal Effects)

Melodia (III)

Odi et Amo / Krókódíll

Payphone (from McCanick)

The Radiant City

Ruslpóstur The Sun’s Gone Dim and the Sky’s Turned Black

Theme from ‘Varmints’ soundtrack

The Theory of Everything (soundtrack)

Time To Say Goodbye (from White Black Boy)

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Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi – Stropha LP

Benedikt Reynisson — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:32:30 +0000

A1 Intro
A2 Tímabundið
A3 Epta
A4 Júlí
A5 Nuovo
B1 Physalia
B2 Neos
B3 Solo
B4 Anemos

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Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Smekkleysa — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:09:08 +0000

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Sólveig Steinþórsdóttir Eugène Ysaÿe: Solo Violin Sonatas 1-6 Op. 27

Smekkleysa — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:33:37 +0000

In summer of 1923, Eugene Ysaÿe heard his friend Joseph Szigeti perform one of J.S. Bach’s Solo Violin Sonatas. Afterwards, on his way to a sojourn at the beach in Le Zoute, Ysaÿe couldn’t stop thinking about the performance: “When one hears an artist like Szigeti, who is able to accommodate his playing to the rectangular lines of the great classics as easily as he can to the expressive melodies of the romantics, one feels how absorbing it would be to compose a work for the violin whilst keeping ever before one the style of one particular violinist.” On arrival at the resort, Ysaÿe disappeared into his room for a couple of days and emerged with sketches of Six Violin Sonatas (Op. 27), each imagined with the sound and style of a specific artist ringing in his ears.

The first of these Op. 27 sonatas is dedicated to Szigeti. Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2 was written for Jacques Thibaud. The Sonata No. 4 was written for Fritz Kreisler.

The other three sonatas move away from Bach in their style and substance, focusing more exclusively on the violinist dedicatees. No. 3 was for the Romanian violinist and composer George Enescu. The Fifth Sonata, written for Ysaÿe’s favorite student Matthieu Crickboom, is in a completely different mood than the others. Ysaÿe’s final entry in the set, written for the Spanish violinist Manuel Quiroga, is a sequence of dances and arias linked by improvisatory cadenzas.

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Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Icelandic Works for Stage

Benedikt Reynisson — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:00:59 +0000

Páll Ísólfsson was the first director of the Reykjavík Music School, which opened in 1930. Like other musicians, he was forced by the lack of opportunity in Iceland to study abroad but, unlike others, he was able to return and work as the Organist at Reykjavík Cathedral to support his activities as a composer. His music for the early Ibsen play The Feast at Solhaug, performed in 1943 in Norwegian on Norway’s National day, was his theatrical début. This was followed in 1945 by the more ambitious score for Úr Myndabók Jónasar Hallgrímssonar.

Jórunn Viðar started her advanced training at Ísólfsson’s conservatory, followed by studies in Berlin and then at the Juilliard School. In New York she met a fellow Icelander and dance student, Sigríður Ármann. The two of them collaborated on Eldur (Fire), which would be the first ballet for the new National Theatre in Reykjavík, presented in May 1950. Their second collaboration for the National Theatre, Ólafur Liljurós, opened in 1952 and is based on a traditional Nordic legend.

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