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A Prayer to the Dynamo was written in response to a commission from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. It received its first, and so far only performance at the orchestra’s New Music Festival on 3 February 2012. As noted by the festival’s curator, composer Matthew Patton, it represented a turning-point in Jóhannsson’s career, having been written without any of the narrative constraints involved in composing for film. “He never wrote a piece for orchestra this big, this long, and with this much freedom.” This recording will turn a much-deserved spotlight on to a work Patton has described as a “lost symphony” and introduce it to audiences worldwide. 

Track Listing:

1 Suite from The Theory of Everything I_ A Model of the Universe

2 II_ Domestic Pressures

3 III_ The Origins of Time

4 IV_ Forces of Attraction

5 V_ Cambridge, 1963

6 A Prayer to the Dynamo Part 1

7 A Prayer to the Dynamo Part 2

8 A Prayer to the Dynamo Part 3

9 A Prayer to the Dynamo Part 4

10 Suite from Sicario I_ Target

11 II_ Desert Music

12 III_ Melancholia

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