Jóhann Jóhannsson: A Prayer To The Dynamo - Vinyl Edition
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Bjarnason
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Neoclassic Recording of the Year
All the works here hint that Jóhannsson was more than a film composer. How much more, we’ll never know, though A Prayer to the Dynamo certainly generates some power.
Jóhann Jóhannsson: A Prayer To The Dynamo - Vinyl Edition
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Bjarnason
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Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Neoclassic Recording of the Year
All the works here hint that Jóhannsson was more than a film composer. How much more, we’ll never know, though A Prayer to the Dynamo certainly generates some power.
About
Deutsche Grammophon is proud to release the world premiere recording of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s A Prayer to the Dynamo. This major orchestral work was inspired in general by the composer’s fascination with technology, and in particular by field recordings he made at Iceland’s Elliðaár power plant and the writings of Henry Adams.
It is paired on this new album with two suites compiled and arranged by the composer from existing material drawn from his Academy Award-nominated scores for Sicario and The Theory of Everything, also recorded here for the first time.
A Prayer to the Dynamo was written in response to a commission from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. It received its first, and so far only performance at the orchestra’s New Music Festival on 3 February 2012. As noted by the festival’s curator, composer Matthew Patton, it represented a turning-point in Jóhannsson’s career, having been written without any of the narrative constraints involved in composing for film. “He never wrote a piece for orchestra this big, this long, and with this much freedom.” This recording will turn a much-deserved spotlight on to a work Patton has described as a “lost symphony” and introduce it to audiences worldwide.
Contents and tracklist
- Iceland Symphony Orchestra
- Daniel Bjarnason
- Iceland Symphony Orchestra
- Daniel Bjarnason
- Iceland Symphony Orchestra
- Daniel Bjarnason
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Awards and reviews
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Opus Klassik Awards2024Nominated - Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards2024Nominated - Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards2024Nominated - Neoclassic Recording of the Year
January 2024
All the works here hint that Jóhannsson was more than a film composer. How much more, we’ll never know, though A Prayer to the Dynamo certainly generates some power.
