Bára Gísladóttir: Orchestral Works [Book + CD] / Ollikainen, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

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Bára Gísladóttir (b. 1989) considers sounds, instruments, and ensembles as living organisms. In COR, Hringla, and VAPE, the Icelandic composer and double bassist engages with...

Bára Gísladóttir (b. 1989) considers sounds, instruments, and ensembles as living organisms. In COR, Hringla, and VAPE, the Icelandic composer and double bassist engages with the largest musical organism of all: the symphony orchestra. Inspired by death metal or techno as much as by Scelsi or Penderecki, the foreboding atmosphere of her music is cut through with irony, puns, and black humor. After all, organisms themselves – especially human bodies – contain the potential for both comic excess and self-annihilation. In these three works, we follow Gísladóttir’s fascination with language and coincidence; we hear an uncompromising interrogation of the body’s excesses and ailments; and, most of all, we see life, vaporous and between states, neither dark nor light.



Product Description:


  • Release Date: May 17, 2024


  • UPC: 747313695928


  • Catalog Number: 8224759


  • Label: Dacapo CONS


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Period: "Contemporary"


  • Composer: Bara Gisladottir


  • Conductor: Eva Ollikainen


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Iceland Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Bara Gisladottir