The Lyric Theatre London - Reviews.

Terje Isungset is Musical Director for Cinderella in London.
Here are some revews:

TIME OUT MAGAZINE:5 out of 6 stars:
moving, satisfying piece of theatre that will appeal to children and adults alike.' http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/event/119607/cinderella.html
Time Out - Show of the Week

Daily Telegraph:
'One of the finest Christmas shows this festive season.' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3690541/Cinderella-at-Lyric-Hammersmith---review.html
Telegraph
Add a wildly eccentric, surprisingly tuneful one-man band, in which Terje Isungset plays stones, lumps of wood, aircraft parts and a horn made out of ice, and you have one of the finest Christmas shows this festive season is likely to offer.

Evening standard: 4 out of 5 stars
* * * * 'Two beautiful, highly recommended hours.' http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23584997-details/Cinderella/.do?reviewId=23598870

Evening Standard
The acclaimed director Melly Still returns to the original story by the Brothers Grimm to create a spellbinding show for the whole family to enjoy.
With a top-notch creative team including Norwegian ice-musician, Terje Isungset, the Lyric will be transformed into a spine-tingling winter wonderland to make Cinderella the only show to see this Christmas.


The Times 4 out of 5 stars:
****'An inventive, involving telling of this endlessly rich story' http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article5303695.ece
Times


The Guardian 4 out of 5 stars:
'Inventive magic. It's a seasonal show that utilises the kaleidoscopic delights of theatre.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/dec/08/cinderella-lyric-hammersmith-review
* * * * Guardian
The extraordinary Norwegian composer Terje Isungset is on stage throughout, playing every instrument under the Scandinavian sun from a mouth-harp to a trumpet made of ice.


music OMH,4 out of 5 stars:
http://www.musicomh.com/theatre/lon_lyric-cinderella_1208.htm

The distinctive music for the production is provided by the Norwegian musician Terje Isungset, who sits in a small nest at the top of the stage playing an array of unusual instruments including an old bicycle, a mouth harp which apparently was made from part of a Second World War fighter plane and a trumpet made of ice. His unique percussion is an integral part of the show, driving it along.
The music helps to smooth over some of the cracks.

A curtain up:
With frosty blue lighting and a forest of tall thin birches onstage, a curved staircase of white steps leads to an otherworldly-looking Norwegian orchestra. The instruments, manned by Terje Isungset, include an ice trombone and a mouth harp and make even more outlandish sounds which add to the icily unfamiliar Scandinavian atmosphere

This is London
The setting is the wintry ?far, far north?, a place of frosted landscapes and twisted branches, where Norwegian ice musician Terje Isungset plays intriguing instruments
http://www.scenta.co.uk/music/festivals/cit/1737392/the-iceman-bloweth.htm

The Independent:
Thank heavens for Melly Still's enchantingly beautiful and also seriously bleak Cinderella, which goes back to the Brothers Grimm. The set is a silver-birch wood, with steps spiralling to a lookout where the award-winning musician Terje Isungset perches, with a thrumming Jew's harp and a megaphone made of ice, which sounds like a winter wind and wolves howling.
This is the King Lear of children's theatre.
inspiring theatre, full of imaginative riches and creative play. Recommended.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/twelfth-night-donmar-londonbrsimply-cinderella-curve-leicesterbramazonia-young-vic-londonbrcinderella-lyric-hammersmith-london-1065623.html


Daily Mail 4 out of 5 stars:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1094023/Sensational-seasonal-showtime-From-star-laden-pantos-classics-children-critics-choose-Christmas-crackers.html

One of the show's other striking features is a haunting score with the feel of an aboriginal hoedown, performed by Norwegian musical eccentric Terje Isungset.
He adapts found objects to create customised instruments such as a Jewish harp, didgeridoo, hurdygurdy and - his piece de resistance - an ice trumpet.
All of which epitomise the fully recycled, Soil Association-approved good nature of a DIY ensemble act that amazes more than it offends

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/ice-orchestra-isungset.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2008/dec/03/ice-music-instruments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/past_programmes.shtml

London Jazzfestival

All of Terjes 4 concerts at the London Jazzfestival was sold out, and 2 extra concerts had to be set up. Here is a footage of Terjes iceperformance by the Norwegian News (NRK)

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/150804

Innovasjonsprisen Marmorhallen - Oslo

Trio Mediæval and Terje

http://www.tk.no/speilet/article3809615.ece

Fossekall August 30 - 2008.

Nils Økland, Arve Henriksen, Lena Nymark, Didier Petit,Asle Karstad,Terje Isungset and Therese Skauge performing the comission "Fossekall" ordered by Hardingetonar. Music by Terje Isungset. 2500 people came to see the concert.

(photos by Helge Haukeland,Reidar Solberg and Ole Vidar Søviknes).

Check also this link (with sound):

http://www.prohd.no/Flash%20bilder/Steindalsfossen/Steindalsfossen.html

Magic waterfall - Bergens Tidende

Terje playing the Ram`s horn(photo Bergens Tidende)

http://www.bt.no/lokallokal/voss/article620963.ece?sent=true

Waterfall concert!

Look out for the up coming waterfall concert in Hardanger, Norway.

New composed music by Terje.

The waterfall itself will also be amplifyed and used as an musical instrument.

Opening ceremony, Hallingskarvet Nasjonalpark

The prime minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg at the opening of Hardangervidda National Park.
The music was performed by Steinar Ofsdal, Lars Inge Tverberg and Terje Isungset.
All instruments and sound equipment was carried up by horses.

Peer Gynt Award 2008

"Two in One" , Therese Skauge and Terje Isungset performing.

Concert at the Glacier Svartisen, Norway

Terje playing on a horn made out of 2500 years old ice!

photo by Alf Egil Hagen.

Ice concerts reviews

Musikken og stemningene er helstøpt, og bærer i seg en sensibilitet for naturens tilstand om vinteren.
http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2008020814521332588235

It's a chiming, intimate and utterly beautiful world of sound that entrances as much as it avoids any notion of 'novelty'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/ppf9/

Likevel vet du at Terje Isungset har truffet noe med sin ismusikk, da du tar deg i å få gåsehud.
http://www.oa.no/kultur/ny_musikk/article3319905.ece

the percussion is the real treat musically, sparse and reverent, of an intense purity.Pretty unique.
http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2008/06/terje-isungset-ice-concerts-all-ice.html

Resultatet er eksotisk, imponerende og grenseløst originalt.
http://www.nordlys.no/kultur/musikk/article3346344.ece

Med denne plata lever Terje Isungset opp til ryktet han har fått som en av kongerikets mest nyskapende perkusjonister.
http://www.varden.no/article/20080122/KULTUR/298059141/1050

Det er noe veldig norsk, og magisk over soundet på platen.
http://www.ta.no/pulsen/Musikk/cd/article3312632.ece

Det er så uendelig vakkert, så personlig og ekte
http://arkiv.side2.no/Nyhet/284940/Ismannen.html

it's a fascinating, atavistic, other- worldly experience to hear Isungset "liberate" these haunting, enigmatic sounds from nature at its harshest and put them at the service of art - and beauty.
http://www.irishtimes.com/theticket/articles/2008/0523/1211407744011.html

http://www.nordische-musik.de/musiker.php?id_musiker=20&PHPSESSID=9f1635b1360e316a0ff51d90cbf997f9

CD Reviews Agbalagba Daada

To veteraner leker med lyden. Slikt blir det ild av.
http://www.kulturo.no/anmeldelser/cd/per_jorgensen_terje_isungset_-_agbalagba_daada/52728

Hvilke samtaler!
http://www.side2.no/musikk/anmeldelser/article1955582.ece