Haflidi Hallgrimssón
Daydreams in Numbers - Tristia - Strönd
Verse I - Jacobs Ladder
Haflidi Hallgrímsson: Cello/Conductor
Pétur Jónasson: Guitar Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The cellist and composer, Haflidi Hallgrímsson, was born in Akureyri, Iceland in 1941. After graduating from the Music School in Reykjavík in 1962, he continued his studies in Rome and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was awarded a Recital Medal and the Suggia Prize. On leaving the Academy, he studied composition with Alan Bush and Peter Maxwell Davies. His compositions have been widely performed and have won several prizes, including the 1975 Viotti prize (for VERSE I) and the Wieniawski Prize in 1985 (for POEMI - which also won the prestigious Nordic Council Prize in 1986).
| Daydreams in Numbers | ||
| 1 | Unisono | |
| 2 | Expanding Horizon | |
| 3 | Unisono Furioso | |
| 4 | Lullaby at Glacier | |
| 5 | A Winged Horse Rising From The Sea | |
| 6 | Antiphon/Resonance | |
| Tristia | ||
| 7 | Northern River | |
| 8 | Transparent Spring | |
| 9 | Sleepy Mountains | |
| 10 | Sea Waves | |
| 11 | Filled With Space and Time | |
| 12 | A Star Will Never Kill | |
| 13 | Flight Across The Silence | |
| 14 | Strönd | |
| 15 | Verse I | |
| Jacobs Ladder | ||
| 16 | Prologue | |
| 17 | Stones | |
| 18 | Sleep | |
| 19 | Dream | |
| 20 | Angels and Epilogue | |