Daníel Bjarnason: Violin Concerto

Daníel Bjarnason: Violin Concerto (2017)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Daníel Bjarnason, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
The work is featured on Iceland Symphony's CD, Occurrence, published in January 2021.
Listen on Spotify: spoti.fi/3qFPuPc
From a concert in Harpa, Reykjavík, March 18th 2021.
Stúdíó Sýrland (video), RÚV (audio), © Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands

[@JFalken]

Fascinating performance of Bjarnason's Violin Concerto, which the composer and orchestra have also recorded with Pekka Kuusisto as soloist. Clearly, we are locked into the world of Icelanders, which is characterized by an impressive palette of raw nature and human fervor - from violent volcanic eruptions and fighting drifts to loving warmth. Thanks for that!

[@David-jv7ot]

I get it. I really do. Did I enjoy it MMMMMMmmmm not on the first listening but i found it intriguing and unnerving, it's a brilliant brave work which is Icelandic in its sound..... it paints an amazing landscape.. however.. is it an important,, work that only time will tell

[@ronancollett5270]

Stunning music and performance

[@hassankabiri2851]

Great and amazing. I enjoyed so much. Thank you for share... From Iran...

[@maestrodanielepasini]

straordinario!👏

[@binodsingh4929]

Bravo fekka 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💐💐🌻🌻🥲💐🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@binodsingh4929]

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[@barbaraseymour3437]

Disturbing, unrelaxing, harsh, scratchy….not my kind of violin concerto. 4 minutes in and I’m climbing the walls. Sorry.

[@KH-rk5ro]

I don't think you're sorry. Otherwise, why post at all?

[@Whatismusic123]

Disgustingly ear grating

[@KH-rk5ro]

Apparently your years are rather prissy. Maybe you need to toughen them up. The problem definitely isn't with the concerto.

[@Whatismusic123]

@@KH-rk5ro maybe you should focus on ridding yourself of your massive insecurity surrounding your taste in music.

[@KH-rk5ro]

@@Whatismusic123 Lame riposte. My taste in music is broad, and while I love Beethoven etc, I get 20th and 21st century classical music. What I don't do is visit sites with music that's not to my taste and post comments trying to sh*t on what other people like. Talk about disgusting!

[@Whatismusic123]

@@KH-rk5ro you don't "get" the music. You just "like" it. There is nothing to understand in modern music. You just have to deluse yourself to enjoy it and "understand" it.

[@KH-rk5ro]

@@Whatismusic123 "Deluse" yourself. Delude yourself? Cute. Look: classical music after, say, Mahler, doesn't need you to knock it down. It's already unpopular. So when you piss on it, you're essentially like the bully in high school who trips the nerd. He gets lots of laughs, but that's not validation, it's low hanging fruit. Just curious--are there other niche pleasures people have that you try to police? Herd everyone back to the mainstream, sure, because Spider Man XXXI has to be a better movie than the little Indie film, since so many more people see it. Don't worry WIM, you're safe with the many. I just don't see the point of picking on the few. Who's really insecure, after all?