Bartek Wasik plays Jóhann Jóhannsson (piano solo)
Jóhann Jóhannsson's music performed by Bartek Wąsik will accompany the Polish premiere of Jóhannsson's film Last and First Men (Oslo/Reykjavik section). Jóhannsson (1969-2018), an Icelandic composer, combines orchestral and electronic sounds and is best known for his soundtracks to films such as Sicario, The Theory of Everything and Arrival.
His feature-length directorial debut, Last and First Men, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival two years after his tragic death. The film opens with the voice of Tilda Swinton conjuring visions of an apocalyptic future and introducing us to a world of underground science fiction. Jóhannsson's film, both majestic and intimate at the same time - just like his music - collides fatalism with an ardent affirmation of fate.
Tracks:
Theme
Krókódíll
Three Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety One Benches
Flight from the City
video: Kuba Kossak
sound: Antoni Grzymała
The recording took place on November 3, 2020, at Warsaw’s Królikarnia Museum, a branch of the Warsaw National Museum. The New Horizons Association would like to thank the museum director, Agnieszka Tarasiuk, for making the facility available for the recording.
The concert accompanies the Oslo/Reykjavik 3 section, produced with the support of the Norwegian and EEA Funds from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Management: Paweł Szumny // Toinen Music
Bartek Wąsik
One of the leading and most versatile Polish pianists and arrangers who effortlessly shifts musical genres. He is the co-founder of Kwadrofonik and Lutosławski Piano Duo and has won numerous awards. His latest project is the album "Astronomia poety. Baczyński,” written together with Mela Koteluk during the global pandemic. He is also the author of a solo concert series entitled "Pianokrąg," which includes his interpretations of compositions by Philip Glass, his own arrangements of songs by Radiohead.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson was born in 1969 in Reykjavík and passed away in 2018 in Berlin. He was a musician, best known for film soundtracks who often worked with Denis Villeneuve, for whom he composed the original motion picture soundtracks to Prisoners, Sicario, and Arrival. Jóhann received Oscar nominations for the soundtracks to Sicario and The Theory of Everything, and won a Golden Globe for the latter. His directorial oeuvre includes two films, The Last and First People and the short documentary End of Summer, released a few years prior.