Anna Thorvaldsdóttir: ARCHORA (2022)

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir (*1977)
ARCHORA, for orchestra (2022)
00:00 Worlds within Worlds
04:58 Divergence
10:11 Primordia
BBC Philharmonic
Eva Ollikainen, conductor
World Première, 11 August 2022, BBC Proms '22
The core inspiration behind ARCHORA centres around the notion of a primordial energy and the idea of an omnipresent parallel realm - a world both familiar and strange, static and transforming, nowhere and everywhere at the same time. The piece revolves around the extremes on the spectrum between the Primordia and its resulting afterglow - and the conflict between these elements that are nevertheless fundamentally one and the same. The halo emerges from the Primordia but they have both lost perspective and the connection to one another, experiencing themselves individually as opposing forces rather than one and the same.
As with my music generally, the inspiration is not something I am trying to describe through the music as such - it is a way to intuitively approach and work with the core energy, structure, atmosphere and material of the piece.
Photo by Chris Christodoulou
Full Score
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Official Composer Website
www.annathorvalds.com/
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