Description: Further DetailsTitle: ConcurrenceCondition: NewFormat: CDGenre: ClassicalNo Of Discs: 1EAN: 0053479223722Record Label: Sono LuminusArtist: Anna ThorvaldsdóttirEdition: AlbumRun Time: 55.21Release Date: 11/29/2019Composer: Haukur Tomasson, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, Maria Huld Markan SigfusdottirConductor: Daniel BjarnasonPerformer Orchestra: Iceland Symphony OrchestraStyle: OrchestralDescription: EDITORIAL REVIEWS 2021 GRAMMY® Award Nominee for Best Orchestral Performance, Can you hear a country in its music? I posed that question only a few years ago, while contemplating the five recent orchestral works by leading young Icelandic composers that comprised Recurrence, the previous volume of this invaluable, illuminating Sono Luminus series. Pondering those pieces with a visit to Iceland still vivid in my mind s eye, I likened aspects of the music at hand to elements of land and sky, climate and atmosphere an approach not without merit, but surely not the sole dimension worth contemplating. Two of the composers featured on that previous CD are also present in this second collection, Concurrence. Hearing Anna Thorvaldsdottir s Metacosmos and María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir s Oceans in close proximity, it s hard not to consider once more the natural features of Iceland. But before you decide to approach these disparate works as paintings in sound, listen again for aspects that distinctly evoke more human dimensions. Thorvaldsdottir, advising performers on how to approach Metacosmos, describes her music as an ecosystem of materials that are carried from one performer or performers to the next throughout the process of the work. The piece isn t meant to depict some specific vista, but rather to compel its participants listeners included to contemplate the myriad interrelations that bind us together, in space and through time. Oceans, with its gently gliding movements and ravishing plays of light and color, conjures visions of the natural world. But there s also something ineffably human, emotional, and personal in its cinematic swells and haunting suspensions. In both pieces, despite their markedly different aspects and approaches, the sensation of a beating heart is at some point inescapable. Ideas of human presence, interrelationship, and community come to the fore in works by Haukur Tómasson and Páll Ragnar Pálsson. Each is a concerto one in name; both in function and spirit yet in neither do we hear emphasized the individual acting within (or railing against) society dialectic encountered commonly in the historic genre. In Tómasson s Piano Concerto No. 2, the soloist is first among equals, a frolicsome force in continual conversation with lively choruses of counterparts, never overshadowed but also rarely isolated. The solo cello is more prominent, perhaps, in Pálsson s Quake, but not in the sense of a single orator foregrounded against a complementary background. Rather, amid the work s deliberate, effective tectonic judders and jolts, the soloist might well be... well, us, responding with panic and adroitness to keep pace with the rumbling, mysterious tumult all around. Concurrence, then, points out something fundamental about Icelandic music. Works like those presented here, in magnificent performances by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, are not merely illustrative of a fascinating, singular ecosystem, but also evoke the relationships that bond this island-nation s inhabitants to the land, its sky, its weather and to one another. Steve SmithCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAMPN: DSL92237Release Year: 2019Tracks: 1: Metacosmos2: Piano Concerto No. 23: Oceans4: Quake Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Release Title: Concurrence
Title: Concurrence
No Of Discs: 1
EAN: 0053479223722
Record Label: Sono Luminus
Artist: Anna Thorvaldsdóttir
Edition: Album
Run Time: 55.21
Release Date: 11/29/2019
Release Year: 2019
Composer: Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir
Conductor: Daniel Bjarnason
Performer Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Style: Orchestral
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
MPN: DSL92237
Movie/TV Title: Concurrence
Format: Blu-ray Audio
Genre: Classical Artists
Studio: Sono Luminus
