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An evening of ballets by Wayne McGregor, including the world premiere of Quantum Souls, proved to be a little too much of the same thing.

The sparkle of Max Bruch's Fecond Violin Concerto and the drama of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony overcome the gloom of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s dark forebodings. 

Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s astonishing technical prowess in Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto entrances Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. 

Eva Ollikainen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloist Johannes Moser in the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s BBC co-commissioned Cello Concerto. 

Dalia Stasevska and Randall Goosby are sensational in a programme that featured orchestral chestnuts by Bruch and Dvořák. 

A “Sound Unwrapped” programme, featuring Aurora Orchestra's trimmed line-up of five musicians and one sound engineer on electronics, proves to be an absolute success. 

Richard Goode delivers a gentile performance of a Mozart piano concerto, whilst Anne Thorvaldsdottir’s dark Archora is given an impressive performance.

Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an epic symphonic programme at Snape Maltings. 

A mixed programme of all-British choreography, including a world premiere, offers something for everyone.

Sir Stephen Hough produces a memorable piece of pianism in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Metacosmos will have converted some contemporary music sceptics.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali's second New York Phil subscription programme of the season opens with the US premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Catamorphosis. 

A stunning Mozart piano concerto with Angela Hewitt and a dazzling recent piece are framed by serious but uplifting orchestral works by Britten and Strauss.

Primordial Icelandic energy in Anna Thorvaldsdottir's premiere was followed by lightness of touch from Kian Soltani in Elgar and thoughtfully commanding Sibelius.

Ludovic Morlot helms an exhilarating, literally stunning, evening of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Britten and Shostakovich.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Enigma is presented in the Adler Planetarium, with video designed by Sigurður Guðjónsson. 

Pianist Sunwook Kim returns to the RSNO, while conductor Jonathan Stockhammer builds a coherent triptych out of three highly contrasting pieces.

Shaking up cosy expectations is what Bertolt Brecht does in the theatre. Here, in two contemporary works and a symphony written in the New World, Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra have little time for any heart's-ease.

Part of Brussels' Ars Musica festival, the concert also included a fun world premiere by Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, and the riveting Streaming Arhythmia by Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Pastoral repose and granitic grandeur in an awe-inspiring performance of Sibelius' Second Symphony. 

A bold programme from an orchestra with a bold sound as the ISO trails in the wake of Storm Ciara on its debut UK tour. 

The Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and The Julliard School, with Edward Gardner in an impressively ambitious programme, with tragic Britten from James Ehnes, and a remarkable UK premiere from Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Orchestra and conductor seem equally at home in Anna Thorvaldsdottir's galactic soundscapes and Richard Strauss' Symphonia Domestica. 

In her newest work, Metacosmos, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir proves again to be an artist of deep originality.

In its opening concert of the season, the Philharmonia gave two of Sibelius' symphonies with two modern pieces by a pair of Iceland's finest young composers, which made for rewarding listening.

The origins of chamber music lie in a wish for music that could fit within a small room. On display at the New York Philharmonic last Friday were recent contributions that wished for the opposite.

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra's tour to the acoustically excellent Göteborgs konserthus in Sweden for a concert of Sibelius, Strauss and Thorvaldsdóttir was an obvious success, demonstrating an orchestral sound that deserves to be heard abroad more often. 

On the second night of the Sweet Thunder Electroacoustic Music Festival, Brooklyn based International Contemporary Ensemble presented a parade of short works by some of the genre’s stalwarts as well as a few newcomers.

Thursday night at The Kitchen, the exceptional new music ensemble Either/Or performed a diverse selection of five works all composed in the past two years.

Le chef finlandais dirige ses troupes avec talent mais se laisse aussi griser par la dimension spectaculaire d'Une vie de héros. Concerto inégal avec Daniil Trifonov, belle création française d'Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Daniil Trifonov komplettiert mit Prokofjews Erstem Klavierkonzert ein herausragendes Programm, dirigiert von Kirill Petrenko.

Mit der Uraufführung von Haukur Tómassons Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 sowie Werken von Charles Ives, Anna Thorvaldsdottir und Igor Strawinsky zeigt das NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester sein Können in der Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts

Es begeisterte, wie konzentriert, engagiert und gekonnt das Orchester agierte - da war während des ganzen Abends nicht eine Unsicherheit zu hören, es „stimmte“ einfach alles.