Last month Sigur Rós announced an extensive tour for later this year that, like their extensive tour from last year, will find them performing at each date two career-spanning sets broken up by an intermission. A trio of those shows will take place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, with the band backed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as a newly announced string of special guests that include the esteemed likes of Dan Deacon, Owen Pallett, Nico Mulhy, and Anna Meredith, among a number of other collaborators and composers. These performances are all part of the the Philharmonic’s Reykjavík Festival, a celebration of the Icelandic music scene, and will mark the first time the band performs publicly with an orchestra since 2003. The shows run from April 13th-15th, with each night prefaced by a different symphonic and choral program. You can read details for each of the three performances below.
Program 1 (April 13):
Schola Cantorum Reykjavík (a capella choral works TBD)
Hlynur Aðils VILMARSSON BD
Daníel BJARNASON Violin Concerto (LA Phil commission; world premiere) Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Sigur Rós works
Program 2 (April 14):
Schola Cantorum Reykjavík (a capella choral works TBD)
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Airiality
Haukur TÓMASSON Piano Concerto (LA Phil co-commission; U.S. premiere)
Vikingur Ólafsson, piano
Sigur Rós works
Program 3 (April 15):
Schola Cantorum (a capella choral works TBD)
María Huld Markan SIGFÚSDÓTTIR Aequora
LEIFS Organ Concerto
James McVinnie, organ
Sigur Rós works
