Article 7454X A new appreciation for a late Icelandic composer

A new appreciation for a late Icelandic composer

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editors@theworld.org (Marco Werman)
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With the Academy Awards coming up this weekend, we turn our ears to a new interpretation of soundtrack music from the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, performed by German-Japanese classical pianist Alice Sara Ott. As The World's Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain, she was inspired by the intimacy of Johannsson's work as a contrast to the dissonance of the modern world.

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