Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra Archives - Smekkleysa SM https://smekkleysa.net/product-tag/icelandic-symphonic-orchestra/ Shop-Café-Bar-Venue Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:40:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://smekkleysa.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-sm_giftcard-32x32.png Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra Archives - Smekkleysa SM https://smekkleysa.net/product-tag/icelandic-symphonic-orchestra/ 32 32 94954269 Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Icelandic Works for Stage https://smekkleysa.net/shop/more-music/cd-more-music/iceland-symphony-orchestra-icelandic-works-for-stage/ https://smekkleysa.net/shop/more-music/cd-more-music/iceland-symphony-orchestra-icelandic-works-for-stage/#respond Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:00:59 +0000 https://smekkleysa.net/?post_type=product&p=35009 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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2-6 Veislan á Sólhaugum (1943) 13:43
7-12 Úr Myndabók Jónasar Hallgrimssonar (1945) 13:33
13-20 Ólafur Liljurós (1952), Ballet For Orchestra 27:48

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Tracklist

1. Eldur
2. Mansöngur fyrir Ólafs rímu Grænlendings
3. Ólafur Liljurós

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