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Last And First Men, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s poetic swansong, received its world film premiere on 25 February at Berlinale 2020. At the same time, Deutsche Grammophon is releasing the original score digitally. The Icelandic composer was working on the score of his magnum opus at the time of his death in February 2018, distilling and intensifying the symphonic soundworld that he had premiered at Manchester International Festival (MIF) six months earlier. Jóhann Jóhannsson devised the multimedia work’s visual concept, travelled to the former Yugoslavia to shoot footage of isolated locations and futuristic war memorials, then set about marrying haunting images to music. After the premiere of the original version of Last And First Men at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Berlin-based composer and sound artist Yair Elazar Glotman worked together with Jóhann Jóhannsson on transforming the score and he composed the missing parts following Jóhannsson’s death. Glotman worked with musicians close to Jóhann Jóhannsson and incorporated the composer’s treasured harmonium into the work’s final version. Poetic, tragic and hopeful Last And First Men represents Jóhann Jóhannsson’s final and most personal work – an allegory of remembrance, ideals and the death of utopia.