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- Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Spectra (2017)
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Commissioned by the NJORD New Nordic Music Biennale. The first performance was given on 27 January 2018 at the Koncertkirken, Copenhagen, Denmark, by members of the Copenhagen Piano Quartet.
Commissioned by the NJORD New Nordic Music Biennale
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- 9 min
- 7th June 2025, Amare, Den Haag, Netherlands
Programme Note
The piece is in 6 short movements that are performed in a seamless flow from one movement to the next. Atmospheric indications are written in bold italic letters at the start of each movement.
My music is written as an ecosystem of materials that are carried from one performer – or performers – to the next throughout the process of the work. As you play a phrase, harmony, texture or a lyrical line it is being delivered to you, passed on from another performer for you to carry on until it is delivered to another. All materials continuously grow in and out of each other, growing and transforming throughout the process.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
My music is written as an ecosystem of materials that are carried from one performer – or performers – to the next throughout the process of the work. As you play a phrase, harmony, texture or a lyrical line it is being delivered to you, passed on from another performer for you to carry on until it is delivered to another. All materials continuously grow in and out of each other, growing and transforming throughout the process.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Spectra
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Reviews
...the composer described the work as a reflection on ‘alternative realities’. We might have heard that idea in the music’s tendency, over six linked movements, to toy with some other idea far flung from the central musical chassis – among them a little tune that spoke of Nordic melancholy, miniature avian glissandos high in the sky, or a free-flying fantasy that pulled against one of those resolute pedal notes.
31st January 2018
Discography
AEQUA
- LabelSono Luminus
- Catalogue NumberDSL-92227
- EnsembleInternational Contemporary Ensemble
- Released16th November 2018
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