Northern Lights Music From Iceland

Running time: around 1 hour and 45 minutes (including an interval) THORVALDSDÓTTIR Spectra (11’)GUÐNADÓTTIR Point of Departure (8’)ARNALDS This Place is a Shelter (4’)SIGURÐSSON Nabraska (11’)THORVALDSDÓTTIR Reminiscence (7’)BJÖRK (arr. Tassie) Unravel (4’) BJÖRK (arr. Tassie) Jóga (5’)ARNALDS Beth’s Theme (from the soundtrack to Broadchurch) (5’) BJANASON Stillshot (11’)JOHANNSSON Passacaglia (6’) Phaedra Ensemble launches our Northern Lights weekend with a dazzling portrait of contemporary Icelandic music ranging from celebrated glacial works by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir and Oscar-winning Hildur Guðnadóttir, to new arrangements of the ever-inventive Björk and Ólafur Arnalds’ haunting original music for Broadchurch. Evoking distant plains, shimmering permafrost landscapes, the flickering of flames and the chill of the tundra: this is music from the land of fire and ice.