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It sounds like being in a dreamland when Icelandic tenor Benedikt Kristjánsson sings folksongs from his homeland. For his first GENUIN album, the first-prize winner of the Greifswald International Singing Competition and Audience Award winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition has teamed up with the sought-after accompanist Alexander Schmalcz. Schmalcz congenially tunes into in Kristjánsson's nebulous landscapes when the singer juxtaposes the old melodies, sung a cappella, with Schubert's Romanticism. A different language, a different time-but the same feelings and human destinies! Full of deep earnestness, a fine sense of sound and artistic unanimity a moving duo! Album Tracks 1. Fagurt er í fjörðum 2. Drang in die Ferne, D 770 3. Wanderer an den Mond, D 870 4. Schiffer, D 536 5. Tunga mín vertu treg ei á 6. Dass Sie hier gewesen, D 775 7. Neugierige, aus Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 Nr. 6 8. Versunken, D 715 9. Stóðum tvö í túni 10. Du bist die Ruh, D 776 11. Erstarrung, song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/4 (Op. 89/4) 12. Sofðu unga ástin mín 13. Songs (2) for mezzo-soprano voice & orchestra (or piano), Op. 14a~2. Vögguvísa 14. Jüngling an der Quelle, D 300 15. Kysstu mig, hin mjúka mær 16. böse Farbe aus Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 Nr. 17 17. Willkommen und Abschied, D 767 18. Blástjarnan 19. Fischers Liebesglück, D 933 20. Ísland farsælda frón 21. Auf dem Strom, D 943
