London Symphony Orchestra

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"I found the renowned London Symphony Orchestra to be the backbone of Rosalía’s album Lux: under Daníel Bjarnason’s baton the orchestra provides the orchestral foundation that allows the record to move fluidly between pop and contemporary classical textures. Bjarnason, coming from a classical background but comfortable in pop and electronic music, recorded the orchestral parts in London in about a week with Rosalía and her collaborators present each day, and his orchestrating contributes an open, roomy, and genre-crossing aesthetic that helps songs take on aria-like forms and unexpected arcs rather than conventional pop structures." - Megan Spurrell