Name: Lofsöngur (Nú flyt ég Drottni) by cyradis
Duration: 2 min 54 s
Description: Women's voices from Hljómeyki sing Lofsöngur. Lyrics Ingvar Gíslason. Soloists Hallveig Rúnarsdóttir and Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir. Cond. Bernharður Wilkinson.

'Happiness' - a beloved song from the Sweet Tones / SBC tradition, sung here by the 1976 group. "Happiness is singing together when day is through, and happiness is those who sing with you."  
• text (Clark Gesner):
Happiness is two kinds of ice cream,
finding your skate key, 
telling the time. 
Happiness is tying your shoelace,
learning to whistle the very first time. 
Happiness is playing the drum 
in your own school band,
and happiness is walking hand in hand. 

Happiness is five different crayons, 
knowing a secret,
climbing a tree. 
Happiness is finding a nickel,
catching a firefly,
setting it free. 
Happiness is being alone every now and then,
and happiness is coming home again. 

Happiness is having a sister, 
sharing a sandwich,
getting along. 
Happiness is singing together 
when day is through, 
and happiness is those who sing with you. 

Happiness is morning and evening, 
daytime and nighttime too. 
for happiness is anyone and anything at all 
that's loved by you. 
(by Clark Gesner from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown")

Happiness - Tones76

Written for and performed by Composers Ensemble in 2009.

Duncan Prescott, clarinet
Aisha Orazbayeva, violin
Adrian Bradbury, cello
Huw Watkins, piano



Fantasy

Absentia is a concerto for violin and chamber orchestra. The recording is from the premiere at the Immersion festival on November 28 in Reykjavik, Iceland. 

Caput Ensemble (cond. Gudni Franzson)
Soloist: Gerdur Gunnarsdottir

Recording made available courtesy of RUV and Immersion festival. 

Recording engineer: Georg Magnusson
Re-mastered by Hugi Gudmundsson

Absentia - concerto for violin and chamber orchestra

Canadian Paul Nash's lyric arrangement of this classic French carol is sung here by the Chamber Singers of Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges (Dr. Marian Dolan, cond.); Janine Guglielmino, solo.
"Where is that goodly fragrance flowing
to steal the senses all away?
adorns the air, and nothing like it
the shepherds sensed in fields in May?
Where is that goodly fragrance flowing
to steal the senses all away?
A light so bright, a beam so piercing
it turns our darkness into day...."

Quelle est cette odeur agreable

Commissioned by Staka in 2015
Recording from the premiere of the piece in Apostelkirken, Copenhagen, 15th of December 2015

I. O Magnum Mysterium* (0:00)
- Interlude 1** (6:00)
II. Quem Vidistis (8:16)
III. Videntes Stellam (12:19)
- Interlude 2** (16:23)
IV. Hodie (flt.)** (17:51)

*Solo SATB quatet: María Ösp Ómarsdóttir, Snædís Snorradóttir, Finnur Karlsson and Húbert Nói Gunnarsson
**Solo sopranos: María Ösp Ómarsdóttir, Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir and Erla Guðmundsdóttir

Four Christmas Motets - Finnur Karlsson

The third movement from Concerto for Clarinet and Band.
Eddy Vanoosthuyse - Clarinet
Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides - conductor Dirk Brossé
Recording Leuven (Belgium), May 2004, Recorded by Gobelin Records, Recording engineer Anteun Hoesen, Recording supervisor Sijtze van der Hoek, Art direction Van Kelckhoven BNO

 

Concerto For Clarinet And Band (2002)  III. Allegro Molto

Upptaka gerð á Klais orgel Hallgrímskirkju í febrúar 2016

Tokkata eftir Jón Nordal

For harp quartet and electronics (2016). Performed by Kristi Shade and Katie Andrews (of Duo Scorpio), Angela Schwarzkopf and Katie Buckley.

Appalachian Summer 1973

Women's voices from Hljómeyki sing Lofsöngur. Lyrics Ingvar Gíslason. Soloists Hallveig Rúnarsdóttir and Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir. Cond. Bernharður Wilkinson.

Hildigunnur R/Ingvar Gíslason

Lofsöngur (Nú flyt ég Drottni)

Postlude On Children of the Heavenly Father

Revirado- Ari Vilhjálmsson og Svanur Vilbergsson

Cyradis is Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir, Icelandic composer of neoclassical music. Mostly choral and vocal but also chamber and orchestral. 

Lofsöngur (Nú flyt ég Drottni)

cyradis

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