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South of the Circle / Siggi String Quartet
Sono Luminus

South of the Circle / Siggi String Quartet

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
SIGGI STRING QUARTET
Format
CD
Label
Sono Luminus
Released
May 24, 2019
Catalog #
DSL-92232
UPC
053479223227

About

Siggi String Quartet was founded in 2012 during the Young Scandinavian Composers festival in Reykjavik. The quartet has actively collaborated with current composers and commissioned and premiered numerous works by various composers. The quartet’s repertoire extends from the renaissance through the classical masters and Siggi String Quartet four members have great passion for 20 and 21th century repertoire.

“Experimenting with sound and texture, improvisation and live electronics is an important part of our work. It does deepen our understanding of the standard repertoire indirectly, and it goes both ways.” Playing a late Beethoven parallel to working on Haukur Tómasson Serimonia makes us aim for rhythmical super-precision and working on Mamiko Dís Ragnarsdóttir Fair Flowers after performing the same Beethoven pushed us into the long phrases, picturing endless moss, grey and green and the tiny wild Icelandic flowers in bright violet and yellow. Una Sveinbjarnardóttir´s piece Opacity is more free, the structure is simple and the improvisando feeling is reigning. Daníel Bjarnason wrote Stillshot in 2015. The piece is dreamy and nostalgic and in form resembles a chaconne, where the same chord progression repeats itself throughout. In the middle of the piece there is a retreat from the harmonic structure before it resumes the form until the end. The composer describes the piece as depicting fragmented memories of a noblewoman. The recollections appear abruptly and vanish quickly, some of them distant but others more focused and clear. The title of the piece refers to the early days of photography where people would have to stay still for considerable time so the camera would produce a clear picture.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Stillshot 09:52
    Track
    1
    Title
    Stillshot
    Duration
    09:52
    Composer
    Daníel Bjarnason
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  2. 2 I. More 02:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. More
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  3. 3 II. Ōpacity 04:37
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Ōpacity
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  4. 4 III. Elegia 03:16
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Elegia
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  5. 5 IV. Less 04:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    IV. Less
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  6. 6 I. Flat Water 03:12
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Flat Water
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Valgeir Sigurðsson
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  7. 7 II. Landlocked 02:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Landlocked
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Valgeir Sigurðsson
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  8. 8 III. Erosion 01:36
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Erosion
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Valgeir Sigurðsson
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  9. 9 IV. Plainsong 03:14
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Plainsong
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Valgeir Sigurðsson
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  10. 10 Fair Flowers 14:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    Fair Flowers
    Duration
    14:46
    Composer
    Mamikó Dís Ragnarsdóttir
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet
  11. 11 Serimonia 09:06
    Track
    11
    Title
    Serimonia
    Duration
    09:06
    Composer
    Haukur Tómasson
    Ensemble
    Siggi String Quartet