Schola Cantorum - Mar�a Huld Markan Sigf�sd�ttir: Kom vinur - two choral works

�Kom vinur was composed in 2017 for the Sk�lholt Summer Concerts in Iceland when I was the composer in residency at the festival. A year later Mar�ulj�� was created. Both works are composed to poems by the Icelandic poet Vilborg Dagbjartsd�ttir. The poems are the absolute core of the pieces; when composing them, I felt like excavating existing music from the text, unravelling hidden sounds from the words. Kom vinur has a somber undertone, a sense of loneliness and longing for sharing light and thoughts with a friend in the dark winter night. In Mar�ulj�� the tender view is through the eyes of a child observing subtle changes in nature and the seasons as well as asking the mother questions about the image of the Holy Mother.� - Mar�a Huld Markan Sigf�sd�ttir