Thorvaldur Gylfason – Il Canzoniere Italiano (The Italian Songbook)

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Beskrivning

Ítalska söngvabókin (Il canzoniere italiano / The Italian Songbook) is a collection of twenty-four songs by Professor Thorvaldur Gylfason set to poems by poet-philosopher Kristján Hreinsson in an Italian translation by Olga Clausen, Iceland´s General Consul in Milan. Most of the songs are taken from earlier cycles by Gylfason and Hreinsson – Philosophy of the Heart, Soaring Birds, and Sixteen Songs for Soprano and Tenor – and are now heard in Italian for the first time. Thórir Baldursson arranged some of the songs.