Posted June 05, 2014
-Niri-: What Icelandic music do you find interesting, if you don't mind me asking?
Please don't say Bjork :O
No, it's not Bjork, don't worry :) Please don't say Bjork :O
First of all, I like the music of Jón Leifs, I find it interesting and engaging. I am talking mainly of his tone-poems about Iceland's landscape and natural forces (Hekla, Geysir, Dettifoss, Hafís) and his large-scale work Baldr inspired by Nordic mythology, but I also enjoyed his organ concerto a great deal, not to mention his Saga Symphony based on the"Sagas of Icelanders". They contain some of the noisiest and loudest music ever written!
Then I listened to some music by the contemporary composer Haukur Tómasson, performed by Icelandic musicians, and I liked it while at the same time appreciating the quality of the performance. This is the record, it even contains a brief historical recording of a folksong that sounds very peculiar! That speaks eloquently about the level of music education in Iceland, which I suspect is very high.
And finally, there's a little musical thing in Reykjavík which I really love...
Strange tastes, I know :)
EDIT: I still haven't listened to music by Hafliði Hallgrímsson, but I am going to do so at some point in the future.
Post edited June 05, 2014 by cose_vecchie