Composer: Ole Bull, Hildegard von Bingen, Louis Couperin, Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Magnús Blöndal Johannsson, Fritz Kreisler, Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Jórunn Viðar
Performer: Una Sveinbjarnardottir, Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dorian Sono Luminus
Catalogue: DSL92248
Release: 2021
Size: 2.09 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Couperin: Pièces de clavecin du manuscrit Bauyn
01. Unmeasured Prelude No. 7 in A Minor (Arr. U. Sveinbjarnardottir & T. Þorsteinsdóttir for Violin & Piano)
02. Máríuvísur (Arr. A. Sveinsson)
03. Maríukvæði (Arr. A. Sveinsson)
04. Haustvísur til Máríu (Arr. A. Sveinsson)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
05. Mélodie (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano)
Viðar: Icelandic Suite
06. I. Ávarp
07. II. Óttusöngur
08. III. Þjóðlag
09. IV. Fiðlulag
10. V. Vikivaki
11. Bull: I Ensomme Stunde (Melancolie)
Massenet: Thaïs
12. Meditation (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
13. Eiríksdóttir: Winter
14. Johannsson: In a Dream
15. Johannsson: Lullaby
16. Kreisler: Aubade Provençale
17. Monteverdi: Ave Maria
18. Bingen: Anima Processional (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
19. Sveinbjarnardottir: Last Song Before the News
“The project is inspired by the moment before the realization of something that drastically changes your life, the moment of just being, existing in the moment. That moment in time is free and full, mindfulness-ish and unaffected by misery, sorrow, regret, shame, anxiety and depression. In my mind it is bright and has a sense of nostalgia. The title also refers to a daily tradition on Icelandic radio Ra’s 1, where a song, “last song before the news” would be played just before the news hour at noon. The song would typically be an Icelandic one, sometimes a lullaby, a love song or an ode to scary and gorgeous nature. Or an Icelandic traditional, sometimes an Italian canzone or a Scandinavian sorrow. Jo’runn Viðar’s piece Icelandic Suite sums up all these elements, a piece written for the 2000 years anniversary of inhabitation in Iceland in 1974. The lightness and the longing are with us throughout the program except in the title piece of mine, Last Song before the News, where apocalyptic visions are awfully obvious and take over early on. The album is dedicated to my father, Sveinbjorn Rafnsson, whose lightness and passion for music, poetry and history along with his sense of humor has been a lifeline to many people” (Una Sveinbjarnardottir)