Composer: Daníel Bjarnason, Bára Gísladóttir, Missy Mazzoli, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Daníel Bjarnason
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dorian Sono Luminus
Catalogue: DSL-92267
Release: 2023
Size: 1.85 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Þorvaldsdóttir: CATAMORPHOSIS
02. Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
03. Bjarnason: From Space I Saw Earth
04. Sigfúsdóttir: Clockworking
05. Gísladóttir: ÓS
At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I’m going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it’s never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it is for us on stage. Which is why I often find classical records, especially those of the orchestral persuasion, so underwhelming. So not…immediate. Which is why I am approaching zealot status in my admiration for Sono Luminus and the way in which it submerges listeners within reach of the Atlantis that is the on-stage experience. Which is why, save for live performance, the often inimitable new-music originating in, or in proximity to, Iceland (homeland to an unreasonable percentage of the composers living rent-free in my headphones for more than a decade) has found its most ardent advocate and most clarion amplifier in Winchester, Virginia. Certainly its exceptional national orchestra has.