Kona Music Festival: The pioneers of the string quartet
The Kona Music Festival will be held for the fourth time in October, this time at the National Museum of Iceland. The festival is organized by the ReykjavíkBarokk Chamber Group, in collaboration with the National Museum of Iceland and the Music Fund. The festival consists of three concerts and guided tours of the museum's main exhibition "Making a nation". Different items and parts of history will be the focus of each event. The music is by women who broke away from the traditional roles of their time.
The guided tour will begin in the museum's lobby at 2 pm and will be followed by a concert on the 2nd floor.
Guests only pay the regular admission fee to the museum during the festival events. Admission to the museum is equivalent to an annual pass, so guests can enjoy all the festival events for one price.
The pioneers of the string quartet
This concert will feature string quartets by three composers who all experimented with and developed the string quartet form as we know it today. The pieces are composed by Joseph Haydn, Luigi Boccherini and Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, who all published a collection of quartets in 1769, each of which is more diverse in subject matter and method than the other. The guided tour leading up to this concert is linked to the travelogue by Eggert Ólafsson and Bjarni Pálsson, published in 1772, and Joseph Banks' visit to Iceland that year. The event will explore the Icelandic reality of the 18th century in light of the music that was being composed on the European continent at the same time.
Performers:
Hildigunnur Halldórsdóttir, baroque violin
Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, baroque violin
Anna Hugadóttir, baroque viola
Sigurður Halldórsson, baroque cello
Sunnudagur, 12. október kl. 14
Til þín María
Til þín, María er dagskrá þar sem María guðsmóðir birtist áheyrendum í listsköpun, tónum og tali. Innblástur sýningarinnar er bók Elsu E. Guðjónsson Með verkum handanna sem Þjóðminjasafn Íslands gaf út árið 2023. Í bókinni er fjallað sérstaklega um Maríuklæðið frá Reykjahlíð frá 15.öld sem varðveitt er á þjóðminjasafni Dana í Kaupmannahöfn auk fornra listaverka tengd Maríu sem varðveitt eru á Þjóðminjasafni Íslands. Lesið verður úr íslensku handriti Maríusögu frá 14. öld og ljóðabók Sonju B. Jónsdóttur Í myrkrinu fór ég til Maríu sem kom út árið 2023. Flutt verða fornir íslenskir Maríusöngvar og kvæði og verk eftir ítalska tónskáldið og nunnuna Isabellu Leonarda (1620-1704), þar á meðal brot úr mótettu op. 14 In te Maria, sem verður frumflutningur á Íslandi.
Flytjendur:
Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, söngur, barokkfiðla og upplestur
Anna Hugadóttir: barokkvíóla
Sólveig Thoroddsen, barokkharpa
Sergio Coto Blanco, theorba
