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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Spírall
1. The Caput Ensemble l-ll
2. The Caput Ensemble lll
3. The Caput Ensemble lV-V
4. The Caput Ensemble Vl
5. The Caput Ensemble Vll
Eco del passato
6. Áshildur Haraldsdóttir, Anna M. Magnúsdóttir; 1 Calmo ma deciso
7. Áshildur Haraldsdóttir, Anna M. Magnúsdóttir; ll Agitato
8. Áshildur Haraldsdóttir, Anna M. Magnúsdóttir; lll Con eleganza
9. Áshildur Haraldsdóttir, Anna M. Magnúsdóttir; lV Molto agitato
10. The Caput Ensemble Octette
11. The Caput Ensemble Kvartett ll
12. Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester, Leif Segerstam Afsprengi
13. Iceland Symphony Orchestra Stratti

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