Gyda Valtysdottir: Epicycle (LP) | Figureight Records F8003

Gyda Valtysdottir: Epicycle (LP)

Label: Figureight Records

Cat No: F8003

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th October 2017

Contents

Artists

Gyda Valtysdottir (vocals, cello, piano, zither, dulcitone, percussion)
Hilmar Jensson (electric guitar)
Micahel York (bagpipes, flutes, duduk)
Julian Sartorius (Drums)
Dannmy Tunick (marimba)
Shahzad Ismaily (Moog, percussion, electric guitar)

Works

Bingen, Hildegard von

Ave generosa (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Crumb, George

Black Angels
» III Return (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Messiaen, Olivier

Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
» V Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Partch, Harry

Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Visions fugitives, op.22
» no.1 Lentamente (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Schubert, Franz

Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major, op.100 D929
» II Andante con moto (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Schumann, Robert

Dichterliebe, op.48
» no.1 Im wunderschonen Monat Mai (arr. Gyda Valtysdottir)

Valtysdottir, Gyda

Seikilos Epitaph (after Seikilos)

Artists

Gyda Valtysdottir (vocals, cello, piano, zither, dulcitone, percussion)
Hilmar Jensson (electric guitar)
Micahel York (bagpipes, flutes, duduk)
Julian Sartorius (Drums)
Dannmy Tunick (marimba)
Shahzad Ismaily (Moog, percussion, electric guitar)

About

Epicycle was released initially (CD-only, Iceland-only) through Reykjavik label Smekkleysa, and received weighty prizes at the Icelandic Music Awards. This new issue is its first international and vinyl release.

Epicycle collects Gyda’s new and unique visions of existing classical pieces, covering a range broad enough to include the great master Sergei Prokofiev, through to 20th-century experimental music theorist Harry Partch, via the Seikilos Epitaph - the oldest known surviving musical composition in the world. Gyda’s background comprises both indie music (she co-founded the hugely acclaimed m m in her teens) and classical (a student of the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, she holds a Double Masters in music).

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