This is the studio recording of Geoffrey Gordon's ICE - aut inveniam viam aut faciam, from Mythologies and Mad Songs, on the Orchid Classics label, recorded in Glasgow, featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Martyn Brabbins from 4 October 2022.

"....a massive meditation on Arctic exploration that places a very human sense of struggle in a powerfully evoked world of grinding ice sheets and thunderous menace."

-Richard Bratby

GRAMOPHONE

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"We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders.

We had reached the naked soul of man."

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer (1874-1922)

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