{"id":15,"date":"2016-08-07T20:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bragi.co.za\/wp\/index.php\/2016\/08\/07\/clarinettist-recital\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:59:38","slug":"clarinettist-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/08\/07\/clarinettist-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarinettist &#8211; Recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarinet recital at the Nordic House in Reykjavik in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>This was Bragi&#8217;s final concert before graduating from the Sigursveinn D. Kristinsson music school.\u00a0Like many other things Bragi does, he decided to do his &#8220;classical&#8221; clarinet recital a little different. \u00a0The 1st part is quite traditional &#8211; clarinet with piano. \u00a0The 2nd half, however, is Klezmer music that Bragi arranged, except for the last song which he borrowed from a Czech children&#8217;s TV show. He also got some great musicians to rehearse and play with him (they&#8217;re listed below).<\/p>\n<p>Clarinet: Bragi \u00de\u00f3r Valsson<\/p>\n<p>Piano (1st half): \u00de\u00f3ra Fr\u00ed\u00f0a S\u00e6mundsd\u00f3ttir<\/p>\n<p>Guitar: Ragnar \u00d6rn Emilsson<\/p>\n<p>Bass: Dan\u00edel Brandur Sigurgeirsson<\/p>\n<p>Drums: Hannes P\u00e9tursson<\/p>\n<p>Piano &amp; Accordion (2nd half): Stef\u00e1n Arason<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption size-full wp-image-13\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Nordic House in Reykjavik\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bragi.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nordichouse.jpg?resize=260%2C195\" alt=\"Nordic House in Reykjavik\" border=\"0\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" \/>\n<p><u><strong>1st part &#8211; w\/ piano<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Maurice Ravel {play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/01 &#8211; Ravel.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Francis Poulenc 1st movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/02 &#8211; Poulenc 1.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211;\u00a0Francis\u00a0Poulenc 2nd movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/03 &#8211; Poulenc 2.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211;\u00a0Francis\u00a0Poulenc 3rd movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/04 &#8211; Poulenc 3.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; Igor Stravinsky 1st movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/05 &#8211; Stravinsky 1.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211;\u00a0Igor\u00a0Stravinsky 2nd movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/06 &#8211; Stravinsky 2.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>7 &#8211;\u00a0Igor\u00a0Stravinsky 3rd movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/07 &#8211; Stravinsky 3.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p><em>The following piece was specially composed for Bragi by Finnish composer Tom B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m and World Premiered at this recital:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8 &#8211; Tom B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m 1st movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/08 &#8211; Backstrom 1.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>9 &#8211; Tom B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m 2nd movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/09 &#8211; Backstrom 2.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>10 &#8211; Tom B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m 3rd movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/10 &#8211; Backstrom 3.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>11 &#8211; Tom B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m 4th movement\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/11 &#8211; Backstrom 4.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>2nd part &#8211; Klezmer music w\/ band<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12 &#8211; Palestina\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/12 &#8211; Palestina.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>13 &#8211; Mazel Tov\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/13 &#8211; Mazel Tov.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>14 &#8211; Fon der Khupe\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/14 &#8211; Fon der Khupe.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>15 &#8211; Rushishe Sher\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/15 &#8211; Rushishe Sher.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<p>16 &#8211; A je to\u00a0{play}images\/audio\/clarinet\/16 &#8211; A je to.mp3{\/play}<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption size-full wp-image-14\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"The a je to guys. If you don't know them, look them up on YouTube.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bragi.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a-je-to.jpg?resize=300%2C290\" alt=\"The a je to guys\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarinet recital at the Nordic House in Reykjavik in 2002. This was Bragi&#8217;s final concert before graduating from the Sigursveinn D. Kristinsson music school.\u00a0Like many other things Bragi does, he decided to do his &#8220;classical&#8221; clarinet recital a little different. \u00a0The 1st part is quite traditional &#8211; clarinet with piano. \u00a0The 2nd half, however, is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/08\/07\/clarinettist-recital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clarinettist &#8211; Recital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bragi.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nordichouse.jpg?fit=260%2C195&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XTWd-f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}