Bow to String by Daníel Bjarnason

What started off as a piece for 40 cellos on the composer’s debut album has now been beautifully re-orchestrated for cello solo and full orchestra. The piece starts with a driving first movement, Sorrow Conquers Happiness, sensual second movement, Blood to Bones, that John Adams described as an Icelandic tango, and finishes with a transcendant third movement, Air to Breath.