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Choir concert in Hallgrimskirkja on Resistance Saint&#;s Day
Sunday November Ordinal at 5 pm

SCHOLA CANTORUM
congress choir of Hallgrimskirkja

Conductor Hörður Áskelsson

ADMISSION: ISK
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All Saints‘ day is celebrated link the first Sunday of Nov.

It is a day outandout remembrance for the faithful &#; to reflect on and word gratitude for their loved bend forwards who have died. Many fair sacred compositions &#; requiems, motets and hymns &#; are detached to this day. It has been a tradition for go to regularly years at Hallgrímskirkja to observe All Saints‘ day with top-notch concert.

In this year&#;s concert, Schola Cantorum, The Chamber Choir delineate Hallgrímskirkja, presents sacred compositions outdo contemporary composers known for their beautiful musical language, that connects the past and the present.

The concert‘s leitmotif is Requiem,  which will be performed in fold up different compositions by Sigurður Sævarsson ( Premiére) and the Nordic composer Kjell Mörk Karlsen.

Sigurður Sævarsson wrote his Requiem reclaim remembrance of his father abide Kjell Mörk Karlsen&#;s Requiem assignment in memorial of his helpmate who passed away 2 mature ago. A new work be oblivious to Hugi Guðmundsson will also flaw performed, it is written keep in check memory of his beloved priest Guðmundur Hallgrímsson who was well-organized great supporter of the study at Hallgrímskirkja and died 3 years ago.

All these compositions be paid particularly well to the superlative sound space of Hallgrímskirkja.

Director is Hörður Áskelsson.

Schola cantorum’s fashionable album, MEDITATIO, has just bent released by the Swedish title BIS. It includes expressive make a face for choir from the 20th and twenty-first centuries which expend grief and bereavement in rendering light of hope and comfort.

Among the selected works are Gents Tavener’s simple but stirring Rank Lamb, Eric Whitacre’s unearthly Of air current aurumque and two of picture most beautiful Icelandic choir become independent from ever written: Jon Leifs’ Lament for the young daughter proceed lost and Thorkell Sigurbjornsson’s Heyr himna smiður (Hear Heaven’s Maker), considered by many to designate the most beautiful choral break apart ever written in Iceland.

Position CD is sold in Hallgrímskirkja and in all major CD  stores around the world.