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SONAR - MUSIC BY MAGNAR AM - ELLEN BODTKER (SACD + BLU-RAY DISC)

Sonar Music By Magnar Am/Ellen Bodtker On SACD + Blu-Ray Disc

Sonar is another one of 2L's SACD/Blu-Ray music discs. The composer on all three works here is Magnar Am with support from Ellen Segersted Bodtker on harp, singers Hildegrunn Riise and Grex Vocalis and the instrumentation of Oslo Kammersolister. As usual the 2L label delivers a stunning recording and it will test the limits of your system.  

The sound here is spectacular in whatever format you choose but the jump to Blu-ray is, as in vision, a leap forward. None of which would matter were the performances not also uniformly excellent: This is a superbly alive performance of the Britten Simple Symphony, making it sound a much more ambitious work than usual. A demonstration recording!

"Sonar is a sound signal sent out to create an echo from whatever it may encounter and thus reveal the unknown. I think we all send our symbolic sonars into physical and spiritual space, in a constant search for meaning. At least I do. And my life and music represent both this child's sonars and the universe's ever-unfolding answer." - Magnar Am"

"The music is insistent, powerful and existential, bringing out the dramatic qualities of the instrument. In the cadenza the electric harp with all its effects carries on a dialogue with its acoustic counterpart, as if the new and the ancient world were melting together; a Mongolian shepherd's song winds its way between the strings." - Ellen Bodtker