Episode 50: THE HISTORY OF ICELANDIC MUSIC: CLASSICAL
The fiftieth episode from The RÚV English Podcast service is part of our series on Icelandic music, in its many genres. Music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou joins Darren to take a look and a listen to the history of Icelandic music, through a different genre each week. In future weeks we will explore pop, the "golden oldies" of the 50s and 60s, Icelandic indie, and much more. (And yes - an Iceland-in-Eurovision special coming too!) Today we examine classical music in Iceland. Music played on today's show: "Heyr, himna smiður", text by Kolbeinn Tumason (written 1208), music composed by…
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