Contempo
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Label: Odradek Records
Cat No: ODRCD374
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 17th June 2022
Contents
Works
Loss?Una sanosa porfia
Il estoit une fillette
Vamos a cenar
Sleep, slumb'ring eyes
Quand je congneu en ma pensee
Depairte, depairte
What this night is long (on a Medieval English poem)
Fragments (4) on a Poem by Stefan Hordur Grimsson
Artists
ContrastiAbout
Contrasti's chief aim was to perform rarely heard works, and the group also encouraged Icelandic composers to write for them. This album includes three of the five pieces composed for Contrasti during its lifetime (2000–2004), all in world- premiere recordings. The ensemble performs in different configurations including voices, recorders, violin, viola da gamba, lute, guitar and percussion.
These early works are interspersed with three contemporary pieces composed for Contrasti. Atli Heimir Sveinsson's Four Fragments on a Poem by Stefán Hörður Grímsson were inspired by one of the 'Atom poets', a group of Icelandic modernist poets; Sveinsson responds to Grímsson's words with characteristic sensitivity and subtlety. Fellow Icelandic composer Sveinn Lúðvík Björnsson contributes the evocative three- movement Þrot? ('Loss?'), and from English-born composer John Speight, who moved to Iceland in 1972, we hear What this night is long, composed to reflect Contrasti's unique lineup and its championing of music old and new.
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