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Ice Land: The Eternal Music
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson, Graham Ross
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
An ethereal, escapist set of recordings from the Cambridge choir, bringing together Icelandic choral music from the last half-century. Sævarsson’s Requiem forms the centrepiece – a hypnotic,...
Ice Land: The Eternal Music
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson, Graham Ross
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
An ethereal, escapist set of recordings from the Cambridge choir, bringing together Icelandic choral music from the last half-century. Sævarsson’s Requiem forms the centrepiece – a hypnotic,...
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Icelandic music of the last half century is the focus of this recording by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, led by its conductor, Graham Ross.
Born from his close collaboration with the native composers of the ‘Land of Fire and Ice’, this programme sets out to explore and highlight their hypnotic soundworld, instinctively leaning towards contemplation.
A prime example is the touchingly beautiful Requiem by Sigurður Sævarsson, which here receives its world premiere recording.
Contents and tracklist
- Carolyn Sampson, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
- Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
- Hannah Dienes-Williams, Carolyn Sampson, Dominic Wallis, Samuel Porteous, Oscar Simms, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross
- Dmitri Ensemble, Stephanie Gonley, Graham Ross
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New choral music from Iceland and England
A double-bill of contemporary works for choir - Icelandic splendour from Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College, and Westminster commissions from Dove, Weir and Martin.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week4th February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2022
May 2022
An ethereal, escapist set of recordings from the Cambridge choir, bringing together Icelandic choral music from the last half-century. Sævarsson’s Requiem forms the centrepiece – a hypnotic, reflective wonder.
4th February 2022
Contemporary Northern European choral music has acquired a reputation for being, in a sense, the Northern Lights set to music – ethereal, shimmering, weightless – but Anna Þorvaldsdóttir’s Ad genua is worlds away from such thoughts...Jón Leifs’ haunting Hinsta kveðja, written in memory of his mother, is a magnificent addition to the string orchestra canon, with tonal shifts reminiscent of late Vaughan Williams.
