FESTIVAL CONCERT
The Final Festival Concert will be Saturday, August 21 at 19:30 in Laugardalshöll.
The program is the result of the workshops and the joint singing from the festival songbook.
The Iceland Amateur Symphony Orchestra will join the choirs at the Festival Concert.

PROGRAM

Workshop 1:  Nordic choral music with orchestral accompaniment.
Denmark: Morgensang af Elverskud (Niels W. Gade, text: B.S. Ingemann)

Conductor: Carsten Seyer-Hansen
Norway: Landkjenning op. 31 for choir and baritone solo (Edvard Grieg, text: Björnsterne Björnson) soloist: Ágúst Ólafsson, baritone

Conductor: Bjørn Sagstad
Iceland: Sólhjartarljóð for choir and soli (Jón Nordal, text: Matthías Jóhannessen) soloists: Þóra Einarsdóttir, soprano, Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir, alto

Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson

Workshop 2: Nordic music – a cappella    
Finland: Den Signade Dag - (folklig koral från Vörå, text:N.F.S. Grundtvig, arr. Jan Hellberg)

Conductor: Rita Varonen
Finland: Älä lapsi paljon laula (Juha Holma, text from Kalevala)

Conductor: Rita Varonen
Sweden: Under Linden (Hans Ola Ericsson, text transl; Karl Ivar Hildeman)
Conductor: Christina Hörnell   

Workshop 3: Baltic choral music
Estonia: Kangakudumise laul (Eduard Oja)
Conductor: Riho Leppoja
Latvia: Lígo, Lígo! (Dinduru, dandaru: part 3, based on Latvian folksongs) (Ugis Praulins, arr. Edgar Linde)

Conductor: Romāns Vanags
Lithuania: Ulioj, bitela, ulioj, (Lietuviska siuita IV); (Nijolé Sinkeviciüté)

Conductor: Alfonsas Vildziunas

Workshop 4: Icelandic contemporary choral music
Ég vil lofa eina þá (Bára Grímsdóttir, text from an old manuscript)

Conductor: Jón Stefánsson
Stóðum tvö i túni (Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, text: trad.)

Conductor: Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir
Sólsetursljoð (Jón Leifs, text; Jónas Hallgrímsson)

Conductor: Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir

- Intermission -

Iceland - Festival Song 2010: Gefðu ad móðurmálið mitt. (trad. arr: Róbert A. Ottósson)
Garðar Cortes, conductor
Lithuania: Tris dienas (Festival Song Klaipeda 2002)
Regina Maleckaite, conductor
Estonia: Laul Põhjamaast (Festival Song Tartu 2008)
Aarne Saluveer, conductor
Denmark: Den lyse nat (Leo Estvad, arr. Paul Schönemann, text: Hans Hartvig Seedorff)
Carsten Seyer-Hansen, conductor
Estonia: Kungla rahvas (Karl August Hermann, arr. Tuudur Vettik, text: Friedrich Kuhlbars)
Riho Leppoja, conductor
Finland: Uusi sointu (Markus Virtanen, text: Kaarlo Sarkia)
Rita Varonen, conductor    
Iceland: Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu (Icel. folksong/Jón Ásgeirsson, text: Rósa Guðmundsdóttir)
Garðar Cortes, conductor      
Latvia: Gerbies, saule, sudrabota (Anita Kuprisa)
Romāns Vanags, conductor
Lithuania: Sienapjūtes Daina (Lithuanian folk song, arr. Antanas Budriūnas)
Kestutis Jakeliunas, conductor
Norway: Sov, sov, liten gut (Norwegian folk song, arr. Frank Havrøy)
Jon Flydal Blichfeldt, conductor
Sweden: Dansa Kicki! (Polska efter Erkgärds Mats Ersson, Grimsåker, Malung,
Arr. and text: Anders Nyberg)
Christina Hörnell, conductor
Norway: Brureslått (Festival Song Skien 2000)
Jon Flydal Blichfeldt, conductor
Sweden: Uti i vår hage (Festival Song Gotland 1997)
Christina Hörnell, conductor
Latvia: Pūt vejini (Festival Song Riga 1995)
Romans Vanags, conductor