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Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir

Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir (soprano), Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir (soprano), Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir (soprano), Kirstín Erna Blöndal (soprano), Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir (alto), Helgi Steinar Helgason (tenor), Fjölnir Ólafsson (bass)

Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Hörður Áskelsson

The singers have a distinctive timbre, with strength held in reserve in almost every item — Choir & Organ, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2200
Label: BIS
Length: 57 minutes

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MacMillan: A Child's Prayer

Work length3:28

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Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir, Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Tavener: The Lamb

Work length3:48

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Hugi Guðmundsson: Hvíld

Work length3:34

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Leifs: Requiem, Op. 33b

Work length4:43

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Lauridsen: Lux aeterna

Work length3:56

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

O Nata Lux

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Whitacre: Lux aurumque

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Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Sigurbjörnsson, T: Nú hverfur sól í haf

Work length4:51

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Sævarsson: Nunc dimittis

Work length3:31

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Ešenvalds: O salutaris Hostia

Work length4:22

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Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir, Kirstín Erna Blöndal
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Þorvaldsdóttir: Heyr þú oss himnum á

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Sigurbjörnsson, T: Heyr himna smiður

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Áskelsson: Hvíld

Work length3:26

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Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Ingi: Nunc Dimittis

Work length6:20

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Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir, Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir, Helgi Steinar Helgason, Fjölnir Ólafsson
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

Pärt: Nunc dimittis

Work length4:36

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Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis
Hörður Áskelsson
Recorded: October 2015
Recording Venue: Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Growing out of concerts given by Schola cantorum Reykjavicensis and Hörður Áskelsson on All Soul’s Day, Meditatio presents a programme of expressive choral works which interpret grief and bereavement in the light of hope and comfort. Apart from Jón Leifs’ singularly serene Requiem, the composer’s response to the death of his daughter in 1947, all the pieces date from the past 35 years – from The Lamb by John Tavener from 1982 to Nunc dimittis (2015) by Sigurður Sævarsson, Icelandic composer as well as member of Schola cantorum. The ‘Canticle of Simeon’, as this song of praise from the Bible is also called, appears in two other settings on the disc – by Arvo Pärt and by Hreiðar Ingi who, like Sævarsson, sings bass in the choir. Four other Icelandic composers are represented on the disc, including the choir’s conductor Hörður Áskelsson and Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, whose Heyr, himna smiður (‘Hear, Heaven’s creator’) – a setting of a thirteenth-century hymn – has gained recognition far beyond Iceland. Otherwise the choir performs music by the Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, the Scotsman James MacMillan – his A Child’s Prayer commemorates the victims of the school massacre in the Scottish town of Dunblane in March 1996 – and by Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre, both from the U.S.A. Schola cantorum Reykjavicensis was founded in 1996 by Hörður Áskelsson, who remains its artistic director, and has appeared on a number of BIS recordings with music by Jón Leifs. The choir performs regularly in Reykjavík’s famous Hallgrímskirkja where the present recording took place.

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February 2017

The singers have a distinctive timbre, with strength held in reserve in almost every item

Music Week October 2016

Truly an outstanding disc.

Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir

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