Game of thrones (Sæson 2, e1-e2)
David Benioff
Emneord
Anmeldelser (4)
Point of view international [online]
d. 20. nov. 2020
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Frederik Bojer Bové
d. 20. nov. 2020
Deutsche Grammophon
2020
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2020
"Last and First Men is Jóhann Jóhannsson's poetic swansong. The Icelandic composer was working on the score of his magnum opus at the time of his death in February 2018, distilling and intensifying the symphonic soundworld that he had premiered at Manchester International Festival (MIF) little more than six months earlier. Jóhannsson devised the multimedia work's visual concept, travelled to the former Yugoslavia to shoot footage of isolated locations and futuristic war memorials, then set about marrying haunting images to music ... features performances by several of Jóhannsson's regular musical collaborators, including members of Theatre of Voices, and the Academy Award-winning Hildur Guðnadóttir on vocals, cello and percussion".
The gramophone
2020 September
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Andrew Mellor
2020 September
"Last and first men - is a musical, cinematic and narrative response - a combination of prose by the science-fiction writer Olaf Stapledon (read by Tilda Swinton) and the composer's own film and score ... It is music from the abyss; the dark, slow slab of sound that conforms to current Icelandic archetype ... It is interesting from a spectralist perspective ... but also from a basic harmonic one - how Jóhansson traces a harmony-inducing line against a fixed note".
Klassisk
2020, nr. 57
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2020, nr. 57
"I 2010 faldt den nu afdøde islandske komponist Jóhann Jóhannsson over en bog med titlen 'Spomeniks', hvori den hollandske fotograf Jan Kempenaers havde offentliggjort billeder af enorme, brutale krigsmonumenter, der blev opført i det tidligere Jugoslavien i 1960'erne og to årtier frem ... 'Last and first men' er Jóhannssonns episke svar på disse billeder udtrykt gennem musik og film ... 'Denne luftige og triste komposition er i den mere interessante ende af islandsk ambient musik. Er værd at lytte til".