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As the violin shivers against it, Jóhannsson reduces it all to scarcely whispered vibrations.
This poem concisely bridges the emotional opposites which clashed within the play itself. As the play’s content was “extremely violent and disturbing” (according to Johannsson), his approach to the music score was one of tenderness, beauty and grace.
Who was Jóhann Jóhannsson? A guide to the Icelandic composer - Classical Music.
- One of The Most Acclaimed Film Composers of The Past Decade
- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Retrospective I
- Virðulegu Forsetar
- DIS
- And in The Endless Pause There Came The Sound of Bees
- The Miners’ Hymns
- Copenhagen Dreams
- Free The Mind
- White Black Boy
- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Retrospective II
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s debut album, Englabörn, released in 2002, revealed that he was already a master storyteller, a composer who could translate feelings and emotions into powerfully atmospheric soundscapes. Over the next 15 years, he balanced his own work with scoring for films, television, and theatre and became an acclaimed film composer. Variety...
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s legacy is celebrated with the anthology Retrospective I, which contains seven albums featuring his early milestone recordings Virðulegu Forsetar, Dis, And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees, The Miners’ Hymns, Copenhagen Dreams, Free The Mind and the previously unreleased soundtrack to the documentary White Black ...
Virðulegu Forsetar, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s second album, released in 2004, is an ambient piece composed for and recorded at the Hallgrímskirkja (Hallgrimur’s church) in Reykjavik (Iceland). Jóhann Jóhannsson explained, “I go through many different emotions listening to the piece, veering from intense joy to acute sadness. The central point is perhaps ...
For the following year’s Dis Jóhannsson expanded the pieces he wrote for the Icelandic film of the same name and collaborated with an exceptional array of artists, including members of the bands The Funerals, Singapore Sling, and singer Ragnheiður Gröndal, one of Iceland’s best-selling artists. Jóhannsson observed Dis, “Captures quite well the zeit...
And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees (2009) was written as an accompaniment to the animated film Varmintsand blends the signature elements of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s compositional style, widescreen orchestration, beatific choirs and the most finely crafted electronic synth sounds, into a unique sound. Technology, hubris, overconsumptio...
The Miners’ Hymns(2011), a collaboration between composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and American filmmaker Bill Morrison, is a reflective response to Britain’s lost industrial past and the heritage of the mining communities of northeast England. Focusing on the Durham coalfield the film is structured around a series of activities including the hardship of ...
Copenhagen Dreams(2012) is Jóhann Jóhannsson’s tribute to the Denmark capital, in which he was living at the time, for an abstract documentary from director Max Kestner. Jóhannsson explained, “The tone of Kestner’s film constantly shifts from the mundane to the lyrical, from the technocratic jargon of architects to the everyday banter of commuters ...
Free The Mind(2012) was written for a documentary about a group of veterans from the war in Afghanistan suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who undergo treatment involving yoga and meditation overseen by the world-renowned psychiatrist, Richard Davidson. Through the film we experience what meditation does to human beings and investigate i...
A special inclusion in Retrospective I is Jóhann Jóhannsson’s previously unreleased score for White Black Boycomposed for a documentary about a Tanzanian boy with albinism who is taken away from his parents and sent to boarding school in order to be kept safe from witch doctors who would otherwise target his body parts and blood.
Retrospective II, released in September 2020, features a wide-ranging selection of Jóhannsson’s multi-award-winning film scores and influential studio albums including The Theory Of Everything (2015), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), The Mercy (2018), and the solo albums Englabörn (2002) & Variations (2008) and Orphée (2016) as well as the string qu...
Feb 11, 2018 · Best known for his film scores, Jóhannsson’s earlier electronic and classical work confronted existential horror
Jul 27, 2018 · Jóhann Jóhannsson, who passed away at age 48 in February, was a prolific and well-loved modern classical composer. As the music world continues to mourn his death, DG, with the blessing and support of Jóhannsson’s family, has released Englabörn & Variations.
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Nov 7, 2016 · Since the pair’s first collaboration, on 2013’s Prisoners, Jóhannsson has become a double Oscar nominee, for his work on 2015’s The Theory of Everything and Villeneuve’s Sicario. Here he talks us through some of his favourite scores, including his third collaboration with Villeneuve, Arrival.
