Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson's "Solitude" was composed after a phone call from New York to Iceland, where he played the music over the phone on his synthesizer.
Performer Biography
Manuela Wiesler, the flautist, won the Nordic Chamber Music Competition in Helsinki in 1976, which led her to pursue further studies despite instrumental limitations.
Performer Biography
Manuela Wiesler, the flautist, gave around 200 "conversation concerts" in schools, factories, and hospitals in Sweden between 1983-85, acting as a missionary for classical music.
Compositional Technique
Atli Heimir Sveinsson's "21 Sounding Minutes" allows for optional numbers and orders of movements, with each movement lasting one minute and no intended correlation between them.
Performer Biography
The flautist, Manuela Wiesler, was inspired to pursue music at age nine after seeing Tamino calm wild animals with his flute in Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hjálmar Helgi Ragnarsson, one of the composers, believes a composer has an almost political role in society, tasked with ordering brain cells and shaping future thinking.
Interpretation
The flautist, Manuela Wiesler, describes the pieces on this album as very personal, written for her, rehearsed in collaboration with the composers, and discussed over coffee.
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