Reinhold Friedrich (the album's rather geeky title refers to the quintet-plus-soloist configuration of much of the music) reverses the usual order of things, beginning with the thorniest contemporary work and proceeding to Renaissance sounds (albeit filtered through contemporary ears), Romanticism, and jazz (which comes in a pretty thorny variety ...
Iceland's institutions of concert music are on a par with Finland's, but recordings of new music from that island country are decidedly harder to come by. Icelandic-Slovenian violist Svava Bernharðsdóttir tries to address that lack with this disc of pieces for viola and piano or solo viola, stretching from just after World War II until the end of ...
Western classical is a relatively recent transplant to Iceland, and the country has a small but intrepid classical community, including a national symphony orchestra. The field of classical new music specialists must be practically microscopic, but, based on the performances of these works by five late twentieth century Icelandic composers, it ...
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