Wandering Ghosts
Norðurljós
19 June, 20.30
Johann Sebastian Bach
3 Choral-Preludes
Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Concerto No. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff
7 Songs
Guy Maddin
Odin's Shield Maiden
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Trio No. 1
We hear timeless music that was considered anything but timeless by the composers' contemporaries and weave a poetic short film by the Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin into Rachmaninov's music.
The enormous popular success some few of Rachmaninoff's works had in his lifetime is not likely to last.
—New Grove's Dictionary of Music, 1954.
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien.
—Sergei Rachmaninoff
Bach was history's greatest non-conformist.
—Glenn Gould
—New Grove's Dictionary of Music, 1954.
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien.
—Sergei Rachmaninoff
Bach was history's greatest non-conformist.
—Glenn Gould
Performed by Anna Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Bryndís Halla Gylfadóttir, Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir, Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson, Þóra Einarsdóttir, Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir.