Atonement : the music of Páll Ragnar Pálsson

"No label is serving Icelandic music better right now than Sono Luminus ... and the label follows up here with a complete disc of his [Páll Ragnar Pálsson] chamber music, much of it with voice, spoken or sung by the composer's Estonian wife Tui Hirv. The organic tendencies in Pálsson's music are arguably better suited to larger ensembles ... but you sense his releasing on one sound from the timbre and colour of another best in 'Midsummer Night' and Wheel Crosses Under Moss' ... Pálsson's vocal lines float aloof, not unlike Anders Hillborg's, and Hirv's voice conveys them magically ... The Caput Ensemble play with delicacy".