Top40-Charts.com
Support our efforts,
sign up for our $5 membership!
(Start for free)
Register or login with just your e-mail address
Soundtracks 19 September, 2019

Hildur Gudnadottir Wins Her First Emmy For Acclaimed Chernobyl Soundtrack

Hot Songs Around The World

All I Want For Christmas Is You
Mariah Carey
1413 entries in 28 charts
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Brenda Lee
526 entries in 24 charts
Jingle Bell Rock
Bobby Helms
423 entries in 20 charts
Last Christmas
Wham!
1263 entries in 26 charts
APT.
Rose & Bruno Mars
289 entries in 29 charts
Die With A Smile
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
513 entries in 28 charts
Merry Christmas Everyone
Shakin' Stevens
325 entries in 11 charts
No One
Alicia Keys
465 entries in 32 charts
Beautiful
Christina Aguilera
534 entries in 29 charts
A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Shaboozey
700 entries in 22 charts
Stargazing
Myles Smith
434 entries in 20 charts
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
782 entries in 27 charts
Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido
Karol G
269 entries in 13 charts
Feliz Navidad
Jose Feliciano
343 entries in 23 charts
Hildur Gudnadottir Wins Her First Emmy For Acclaimed Chernobyl Soundtrack
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Composer, cellist and singer Hildur Guðnadóttir's Chernobyl soundtrack has been awarded an EMMY for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special. Also nominated in her category for a Creative Arts EMMY were David Arnold (Good Omens), T Bone Burnett (True Detective), Kris Bowers (When They See Us) and Edward Shearmur (Escape at Dannemora). The ceremony took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, where the miniseries picked up a total of seven awards. Chernobyl has further nominations for next Sunday's Primetime EMMY's including Outstanding Limited Series.

Commenting on her success, Guðnadóttir said, "It's been wonderful to follow the reactions to HBO's Chernobyl miniseries over this summer. I recorded the building blocks for the soundtrack with field-recordist Chris Watson and score-producer Sam Slater at the Ignalina Power Plant in Lithuania, a decommissioned nuclear reactor in which the show was filmed. The vastness of the site directly influenced the score: ultimately no classical instruments were used, and instead the recordings were turned into music, where the only traditional instrumental element was my voice, which was subsequently processed using Impulse Responses recorded on the site. The show itself portrays the disaster with respect and realism, and I was adamant the score reflects this. I wanted to show the viewer how it would feel to be there, and to tell this story of fear, loss and, ultimately, human error."

Guðnadóttir's tense, eerie soundtrack plays an integral role in Chernobyl's overwhelming, claustrophobic drama. The Berlin-based musician spent an entire day on the site in protective clothing prior to shooting, accompanied by Slater and Watson, a founding member of influential industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire who's also known for his work the past two decades on David Attenborough's famed nature documentaries.

Deutsche Grammophon's Senior Director New Repertoire, Christian Badzura, pays tribute to Guðnadóttir's profound creative impact on the Chernobyl series. "Hildur has created such a hauntingly beautiful score, mostly based on field recordings," he said. "The innovative and coherent musical language is so deeply interconnected with the moving picture, so that visuals and music become one aesthetic experience."

Guðnadóttir has composed a number of soundtracks over the past decade, most recently Todd Phillips' Joker, which is due for worldwide release in October. She also wrote the score for last year's Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the follow up to Denis Villeneuve's 2015 masterpiece, Sicario, which was in turn scored by her friend and regular collaborator, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. In addition, Guðnadóttir has worked with a further cast of renowned artists, including Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, The Knife, Sunn O))) and Hauschka.

Frank Briegmann, CEO & President Universal Music Central Europe and Deutsche Grammophon, congratulates Guðnadóttir on her EMMY win and praises her part in building Chernobyl's realist drama. "Congratulations to Hildur for winning an EMMY. Her score for Chernobyl is of breathtaking intensity," he noted. "With this work she has broken through the boundaries of her 'home genre', classical music, to enter new musical worlds. It's an honour and a pleasure for me and the entire Deutsche Grammophon team to accompany Hildur in doing so."






Most read news of the week


© 2001-2025
top40-charts.com (S6)
about | site map
contact | privacy
Page gen. in 0.0059121 secs // 4 () queries in 0.0051343441009521 secs