Anna Þorvaldsdóttir: Metacosmos

Anna Þorvaldsdóttir: Metacosmos (2017)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Daníel Bjarnason, conductor
From a concert in Harpa, Reykjavik, January 31st, 2019.

[@clicktoris1]

i'm here because of TÁR

[@francobenavides]

literally me

[@knallfroosch]

I witnessed a performance of this piece in Vienna today and I was absolutely riveted. It´s really a piece you have to hear live, feel the instruments, if that makes sense.

[@richardkralicek3952]

Same here, my concert was yesterday (Konzerthaus, Tonkünstler), it was absolutely breathtaking.

[@newjawn9004]

Agreed. I heard it last night performed by the Univ. of Ky orchestra. Wonderful.

[@grapesh77]

I happened to enter Hallgrimskirkja this morning with no idea Natl Symphony Orchestra were doing live recital of this piece inside, with Anna being there too. It was truly unexpected and the most authentic rendezvous with Icelandic musical spirit I could ever imagine.

[@Bruce-hy2uo]

I just saw this performed last night here in Detroit by the wonderful Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Tabita Berglund conducting. It was amazing and so beautiful...to hear this live is a wonderful experience. I can't stop thinking about it.

[@ericmarcus2679]

I really want to see a film that uses this for a soundtrack!

[@MaxArceus]

I just saw the premiere of this piece in the Netherlands, and my god, it was breathtaking. Having been to Iceland myself 2 years ago, I was reminded of its desolate landscapes within the first few notes. Listening to this video now, looking back at the photos I took back then.. Yeah, a perfect match. Amazing piece.

[@aclockworkkubrick]

Saw the US premiere of this in NYC. Just as amazing as I remembered.

[@Zuhdj]

Me too! Gave up trying to find a recording of it awhile ago

[@whetstone]

Me too! I love that all of us were in that room and now we are here looking for fragments of that experience.

[@timec0ntroller]

Love the trace of Romanticism in the ending passage

[@fredrodgers2197]

This piece for me sort of encompasses and summarizes all of orchestral nordic music from Leifs through Pettersson and beyond; and surpasses it all! Thorvaldsdottir keeps progressing from strength to strength - I can't wait to hear what she will copmose next.

[@mrnnhnz]

Great composition, and very nicely played. Frábær!

[@lifeboundlove784]

This is other worldly. I have never heard something like this. I loved every second of it.

[@knallfroosch]

It´s *out of this world*

[@Scrayfish0]

I promise there are many dozens of others indistinguishable from this content-less drivel.

[@markusreuter]

Great! Thank you.

[@tryggvifranklinhakonarson5178]

Simply amazing.

[@OrdenJust]

Beautiful!

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

She's getting better and better.

[@smstudiob5]

Wonderful... I had a flashback to Rautavaara in 3:04... Amazing work

[@2jmusic22]

Wonderful!

[@robbiewilms51]

Saw it last night in Los Angeles (Disney Hall). Amazing.

[@rebeccaroberts2589]

🤓 This is a beautiful piece, excuse my nerdiness, we're playing this at the moment in Scotland with 5 bassoons, there seems to be one missing in this excellent performance here. 🤓🤓

[@ronaldollerenshaw2110]

My wife and I saw this orchestra playing this piece at Nottingham Theatre Royal earlier this year, 2023. The composer came on stage and took a bow, as she does here. Anna Thorvaldsdottir, her name ends in dottir (daughter) like all Icelandic women, all the men end in Sohn, (son). Sorry if you already new that.

[@GreasySlick]

I love the traces of Penderecki in there. Very intense.

[@sirzenjavi]

ligeti, also

[@Nessunet]

Great work!!

[@cezartb]

Had to hear this after Tár. Actually this is the kind of music I exoect the main character to compose really.

[@tutumazibuko2510]

Not like she would when she's too busy defending Bach and "owning" her students who'd rather learn from these kinds of compositions

[@JorgeICovarrubias]

Love it!

[@ylwamoritz4205]

Amazing!

[@pasikiiski]

Just heard it in Tampere, Finland with Tampere Philharmonic conducted by Kerem Hasan. Awesome!

[@eduardoalejandrozapataberr4592]

6:40 such a beautiful texture

[@vojtav469]

I want to se what the plaers see, the view on the dirigent , always wonder how he is looking at them and how it feels to se him doing his thing

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

It certainly captures the warmth and beauty of life on Mars. Have a nice trip. Call me when you get back.

[@84kundera]

✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️...:):):)

[@Aug_IV]

POV, you just heard bartok pizzicato existed

[@andrewzhang8512]

8:20

[@markdobbins1622]

0:34

[@wideseen]

Ok, now they are done tunlng. When will the music start?

[@sansovino4124]

With respect, try opening your ears and using your imagination. Don't pre-judge. There's alot going on, some ugly, some beautiful, but also sense. Feel the fear, the darkness, the beauty - it's all there.

[@Scrayfish0]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@philsouthern3244]

Not for me this piece. I love the likes of Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and the like and usually the more brass and percussion on the platform the better. I just can't find any sort of a thread of flow to this work to give it a coherent feel. As some have said, hearing it live is the way, which I'll be doing with the ISO in Manchester very soon. Looking forward to that.

[@danielwoodwardcomposer2040]

I'm just hearing sounds!

[@jex8542]

Maybe get an audiogram..

[@fabiocastellotto8049]

Sincerely, this new "modern" 21st Century classical music is starting to really bother me...bring back Rautavaara please.

[@jex8542]

You can still listen to that...

[@entropy7888]

Those people coughing at the end during the quiet bit just need to cease to exist, thanks.

[@markchentx]

Be kind. You could be the next person who could not stop an itchy throat.

[@sansovino4124]

Classical music needs an audience, consumptive or otherwise

[@derekjeary8849]

I don’t get it. It may be the work is more for orchestra than the listener; this listener lasted 7 minutes and I feared for my sanity if I listened any more.

[@whetstone]

her compositions are wonderful but they do require patience. if you don’t have the time to sink in or the ability to wait, you will miss what makes them so transcendentally beautiful. for me it is worth it, but she is not for everyone

[@fgiord8fgg]

most modern music is a fraud. a few years ago,in Carnegie Hall, I sat through some so called music by a Russian woman which sounded pretty much like this. thank God Mahler came after the intermission to wipe the bad taste from my ears.I am willing to bet that most people who praise this gook do so because they want to appear sophisticated and open minded.these are the same people who go to an art exhibition and stare at two black lines on a white surface and call it art.these so called modernists are laughing all the way to the bank.

[@Scrayfish0]

You are the sane one.