Bára Grímsdóttir: Virgo gloriosa / Hljómeyki Choir

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Album Summary

Performers

• Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir (Voice)
• Magnús Ragnarsson (Voice)
• Gudrún Edda Gunnarsdóttir (Voice)
• Olafur Rúnarsson (Voice)
• Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson (Voice)

Conductor

• Wilkinson, Bernhardur

Ensemble

• Hljómeyki Choir

Composer

• Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - )

Notes & Reviews:

Virgo Gloriosa is the first large-scale work Bára Grímsdóttir has composed for the choir Hljómeyki. Using Latin text, the poem tells of how the Virgin Mary appeared to the poet in a magnificent dream. The work also contains a number of ancient melodic lines, some quite well known.

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Works Details

Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - ) : Ad minni sálu amar (My Soul is Beset with Woes), for chorus

• Conductor: Bernhardur Wilkinson
• Ensemble: Hljómeyki Choir
• Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2000

Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - ) : Ad Beatam Virginem (To the Blessed Virgin), for mixed choir ("Virgo diva, casta nympha")

• Performers: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir (Voice); Magnús Ragnarsson (Voice); Gudrún Edda Gunnarsdóttir (Voice); Olafur Rúnarsson (Voice)
• Conductor: Bernhardur Wilkinson
• Ensemble: Hljómeyki Choir
• Running Time: 21 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1998

Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - ) : María, mærin svinna (Mary, Maiden Glorious), for male choir

• Conductor: Bernhardur Wilkinson
• Ensemble: Hljómeyki Choir
• Running Time: 6 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1997

Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - ) : María, drottins liljan (Mary, the Lord God's Lily), for mixed choir

• Conductor: Bernhardur Wilkinson
• Ensemble: Hljómeyki Choir
• Running Time: 4 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2000

Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - ) : Eg vil lofa eina _á (I will Praise Her and Laud), for mixed choir

• Conductor: Bernhardur Wilkinson
• Ensemble: Hljómeyki Choir
• Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1997

Bára Grímsdóttir (1960 - ) : In Memoriam Piissimae Matronae (In Memory of a Most Pious Lady), for mixed choir ("Omnia luctifico c

• Performers: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir (Voice); Olafur Rúnarsson (Voice); Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson (Voice); Gudrún Edda Gunnarsdóttir (Voice)
• Conductor: Bernhardur Wilkinson
• Ensemble: Hljómeyki Choir
• Running Time: 19 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2000