Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Offerto / Skærved

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HALLGRIMSSON, HAFLIOI
    • PERFORMER
      Peter Sheppard Skaerved
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 14, 2021
    • UPC
      809730861628
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MSV28616
    • LABEL
      Metier
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Klee practising an accompaniment for a popular song

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    2. II. And now for the art of string-crossing

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    3. III. Klee experimenting with a new scale

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    4. IV. Klee takes a legato-line for a walk (version B)

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    5. V. Do not neglect your pizzicato Herr Klee

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    6. VI. Frau Klee is sleeping (version B)

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    7. VII. Klee entertaining Kandinsky

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    8. I. Written in sand

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    9. II. Lines without words

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    10. III. The flight of time

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    11. IV. Almost a hymn

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    12. I. Klee the artist plays his violin

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    13. II. Klee 'sounds out' an etching he is contemplating

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    14. III. Frau Klee is sleeping (version A)

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    15. IV. Klee sketching a tree

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    16. V. Klee performing at the grave of his father

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    17. VI. Klee observing a large butterfly

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    18. VII. Klee takes a legato-line for a walk (Version A)

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved

    19. VIII. Klee notates birdsong in the aviary

      Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson

      Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved


Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b.1941) is widely regarded as Iceland’s pre-eminent composer, as well as a highly accomplished cellist. He studied with Enrico Mainardi and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and was cellist with many leading chamber ensembles until devoting himself full time to composition in 1983. Also, in 1970, Hallgrímsson played the (uncredited) cello solo on “Atom Heart Mother” by Pink Floyd. His voice is extremely distinctive and within modernist styles can communicate ‘serious’ emotions of loss and sorrow and also intensive wit and charm as demonstrated so well by his Klee Sketches on this recording. The Klee Sketches are dedicated to Peter Sheppard Skærved, the performer here. Peter Sheppard Skærved is known for his pioneering approach to the music of the past and our own time. Over 400 works have been written for him. Peter’s exhaustive work on music for violin alone has resulted in research, performances and recordings of cycles by Bach, de Bériot, Tartini, Telemann, and, most recently, his project, ‘Preludes and Vollenteries’, which brings together 200 unknown works from the seventeenth century. His dedicated support of contemporary music (especially with his ensembles, the Kreutzer Quartet and Longbow), is considerable. He is also an accomplished painter and a published writer on many subjects.