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- piano, pipe organ, synthesizer
- classical music, art music, minimalist music, ambient music
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- composer, record producer, film score composer, pianist, music arranger, technician, film director, musician
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2023-09-29 12:00:00
History in the making: orchestral performance in Iceland of instruments made entirely by Hans Jóhannsson
2023-09-18 03:30:00
Jóhann Jóhannsson: A Prayer to the Dynamo (CD Review)
by Karl NehringA Prayer to the Dynamo; The Theory of Everything – Suite; Sicario – Suite. Paul Corley, electronics production and electronics; Skúli Sverisson, guitar; Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Bjarnason. Deutsche Grammophon 486 4870The late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969-2018) is perhaps best known for his film scores such as those for the movies Sicario and Arrival. His compositions often combine elements of classical, electronic, and ambient music to great effect. Among his other attributes, Jóhannsson had a remarkable gift for writing music conveying an atmosphere of that is deeply contemplative and inward-focused – serious, but somehow neither morose nor depressing. Those dimensions of his music take on a special poignancy in light of his tragically short life. He died at 48 in Berlin, the German autopsy report indicating that the likely cause of death was a fatal conjunction of cocaine and flu medication. On the surface, that might strike some readers as an indication of a character […]
2022-04-21 05:10:00
Recent Releases, No. 28
By Karl W. NehringJóhannsson: Drone Mass. One Is True; Two Is Apocryphal; Triptych in Mass; To Fold & Remain Dormant; Diving Objects; The Low Drone of Circulating Blood, Diminishes with Time; Moral Vacuums; Take the Night Air; The Mountain View, The Majesty of the Snow-clad Peaks, From a Place of Contemplation And Reflection. Paul Hiller, conductor; American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Clarice Jensen, artistic director and cello; Ben Russell, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; Caleb Burhans, viola); Theatre of Voices (Else Torp, Kate Macoboy, Signe Asmussen, Iris Oja, Paul Bentley-Angell, Jakob Skjoldborg, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Steffen Bruun). Deutsche Grammophon 483 7418.Here we have another recording of music from the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson (1987-2018), whose compositions have been reviewed several times before in Classical Candor. Jóhannson was a composer with a rich imagination who was fascinated with sounds, so you never quite knew what he might come up with next. As the […]
2022-03-18 17:17:15
The late Icelandic composer's magnum opus unfolds like a ritual, combining a potent mix of tradition and technology.
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