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Program #2202
Fresh and innovative, the artists emerging from Iceland these days are surely some of the most creative and breathtaking in music. On this edition of New Sounds, we’ll hear austere, mysterious and strangely beautiful works from the likes of Johan Johannson, the composer Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, and the countertenor Sverrir Gudjunsson. Plus there’s music by the atmospheric and ethereal Sigur Ros and selections from perhaps the best known Icelandic export - Björk.
PROGRAM #2202 New Music from Iceland (Thursday, 10-9-03)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Sequentia |
Edda - Myths from Medieval Iceland |
The Song Of The Mill, excerpt [1:00] |
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi #77381** |
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Hilmar Örn Hiilmarsson |
Angels Of The Universe |
Schiller In China [2:30] |
Fat Cat #CD-01 www.fat-cat.co.uk |
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Johan Johansson |
Englaborn |
Sálfraeðingur [4:00] |
Touch Music #TO:52 www.touchmusic.org.uk |
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Sigur Ros |
Agætis Byrjun |
Agætis Byrjun [8:00] |
Fat Cat # CD-11 www.fat-cat.co.uk |
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Björk |
Vespertine |
Hidden Place [5:30] |
Elektra #62653** www.bjork.com OR available for purchase at Amazon.com* |
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Evelyn Glennie |
Her Greatest Hits |
Oxygen [4:00] |
BMG #47629** |
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Steindor Andersen |
Rimur |
Haustið Nalgast [3:00] |
Naxos World #76031 www.naxosworld.com |
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Sverrir Guðjonsson |
Epitaph |
Prologue [3:30] |
Opus 111 #30-253 opus111@compuserve.com
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Hamrahlid Choir |
Icelandic Choral Music |
Sveinsson: Autumn Pictures, Pt. 2 [3:00] |
ITM #6-01 Icelandic Music Centre contact info at www.ismennt.is/not/rhf/itm.html OR www.vortex.is/ITM |
*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page
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