Missy Mazzoli
2 Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Daníel Bjarnason
3 From Space I Saw Earth

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
4 Clockworking for Orchestra

Bára Gísladóttir
5 ÓS

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1. Lasse Thoresen – Invocation of Pristine Light Op. 52, No. 1 (2014)
2. Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Scape (2011)
3. Bent Sorensen – I: Mignon – Und die Sonne geht Unter
4. Bent Sorensen – III: Nachtlicher Fluss
5. Bent Sorensen – VII: Mitternacht mit Mignon
6. Kaija Saariaho – Prelude (2007)
7. Raminta Serksnyte – Fantasia (1997)
8. Peteris Vasks – Music for a Summer Evening (2009)
9. Lasse Thoresen – Invocation of Rising Air, Op. 52, No. 2 (2014)

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1 Ad genua (Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (b. 1976)) 10’38
Þorkell Sigubjörnsson [1938-2013] 2 Heyr, himna smiður (Kolbeinn Tumason (ca. 1173-1208)) 2’59

Tryggvi Baldvinsson [b.1965-] 3 Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614-74) 1’46

Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson [b.1952-] 4 Ave Maria (Luke 1: 28, 42) 3’44

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir [b.1977-] 5 Heyr þú oss himnum á (Ólafur Jónsson á Söndum (1560-1627)) 4’16

Sigurdur Sævarsson [b.1963-] 6 Magnificat Luke 1: 46-55 6’09

Atli Heimir Sveinsson [1938-2019] 7 Haustvísur til Máríu (Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (1899-1984)) 3’20

Jón Ásgeirsson [b.1928-] 8 Hjá lygnri móðu (Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902-98)) 3’14

Snorri Sigfús Birgisson [b.1954-] 9 Afmorsvísa 1’39

Jón Leifs [1899-1968] 10 Hinsta kveðja for strings Op. 53 8’34

Sigurdur Sævarsson [b.1963-]

Requiem Mass for the Deadworld première recording
11 I. Introit 4’48
12 II. Kyrie 4’04
13 III. Sanctus 3’19
14 IV. Benedictus 4’15
15 V. Agnus Dei 4’04
16 VI. Lux æterna 2’58
17 VII. In paradisum 4’25

Sigur Rós [b.1988-] 18 Fljótavík for strings 4’20

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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.

Tracklist

BD-1 Metacosmos
BD-2 Piano Concerto No. 2
BD-3 Oceans
BD-4 Quake
CD-1 Metacosmos
CD-2 Piano Concerto No. 2
CD-3 Oceans
CD-4 Quake

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