SUMMER CONCERTS
2008
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum


Tuesday July 8th
at 20:30

Freyja Gunnlaugsdóttir and Siiri Schutz
Hungarian dances and Romantic. Freyja Gunnlaugsdóttir clarinet and Siiri Schutz piano. Ballada op. 8 and two Hungarian Dances by Leo Weiner, Sonata op. 120 no. 2 in E flat-major by Johannes Brahms and Four Hungarian Dances by Rezsö Kokai.   Program   Press release
Tuesday July 15th
at 20:30

Sebastian Brusco
Sebastiano Brusco piano. Sonata in a-minor D 537 op. 164 and Four Impromptus op. 90 by Franz Schubert. Fantaisie-Impromptu op. 66 and Ballade in g-minor op. 23 by Frédéric Chopin.  Program   Press release
Tuesday July 22nd
at 20:30

Steinunn Soffía Skjenstad and Sofia Wilkman
Steinunn Soffía Skjenstad soprano and Sofia Wilkman piano. Selection of Franz Schubert lieder set to Goethe's poems. Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Gustav Mahler, Fünf Lieder by Anton Webern on Der Siebente Ring by Stefan George and lieder by Richard Strauss.   Program   Press release
Tuesday July 29th
at 20:30

Anna Áslaug Ragnarsdóttir
Anna Áslaug Ragnarsdóttir piano. Italienisches Konzert BWV 971 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Le Traquet rieur from Catalogue d'oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen, Grande Sonate Pathétique op. 13 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Barcarolle op. 60 by Frédéric Chopin and Sonata VIII by Jónas Tómasson.  Program   Press release
Tuesday August 5th
at 20:30

Anna Rún Atladóttir og Þórunn Elín Pétursdóttir
Þórunn Elín Pétursdóttir soprano and Anna Rún Atladóttir piano perform a program about, and for children. Seven Children's Songs op. 61 by Edward Grieg, I hate music! by Leonard Bernstein, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson's music to Þórarinn Eldjárn's poems as well as popular songs by Atli Heimir Sveinsson.   Program   Press release
Tuesday August 12th
at 20:30

Guðrún Ingimarsdóttir and Jónína Erna Arnardóttir
Guðrún Ingimarsdóttir soprano and Jónína Erna Arnardóttir piano perform Icelandic theatre music, songs and arias, by e.g. Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jón Ásgeirsson, Indriði Einarsson and Sigurður Þórðarson.   Program   Press release
Tuesday August 19st
at 20:30

Gunnar Kvaran and Guðný Guðmundsdóttir
Guðný Guðmundsdóttir violin and Gunnar Kvaran cello. D-minor suite for solo-cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, Eintal, (Soliloquy, 2008) by Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Ciaconne from Partita in d-minor for solo violin by J.S. Bach and Sonatina in E-major for violin and cello by Arthur Honegger.   Program   Press release
Tuesday August 26th
at 20:30

Sigurður Flosason, Guido Bäumer, Vigdís Klara Aradóttir and Peter Tompkins
The Icelandic Saxophone Quartet. Vigdís Klara Aradóttir soprano saxophone, Sigurður Flosason alto saxophone, Peter Tompkins tenor saxophone and Guido Bäumer baritone saxophone. Fantasia by Orlande Gibbons, Historie du Tango by Astor Piazzolla, Ricercare dopölamo Frescobaldi, Songs for Tony by Michael Nyman and Andante et Scherzo by Eugene Bozza.   Program   Press release
Tuesday September 2nd
at 20:30

Gerður Bolladóttir, Pamela De Sensi and Sophie Marie Schoonjans
Gerður Bolladóttir soprano, Pamela De Sensi flute and Sophie Marie Schoonjans harp. Almanak lieder by Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir with poems by reverend Bolli Gústafsson.   Program   Press release
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