Listen "NEW - Hrafnsöngvar - Ravensongs: A Glimpse of Iceland - June 24, 2025"
Episode Synopsis
Hrafnsöngvar - Ravensongs Composed 2001; World Premiere, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 29 2005Rosalind Page - MusicHrafn Andrés Harðarson - Texts Australian Music Centrehttps://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/hrafnsoengvar-ravensongs-a-tone-poem-on-seven-texts-by-hrafn-andres-hardarson-escore Incidental MusicÓlafur Arnalds / Ljósið; Eydís Evenson / Dagdraumur 1 In The Beginning Darkness Blue mantle Black bordered Vision In the ocean stars medusae Night pregnant with darkness 2 Morning Caught in the net of the morning glare Never reaching day: night birds beating with both wings blood blood on their breasts from their own claws 3 Birds Of Heaven Notes from the Creator’s harp glide above clouds on feathered wings below ie in the air like promises … Tone-birds on the ocean’s keyboard. 4 Life Itself (Hildur’s Dance) Between heaven and ocean our happiness: Lands that ancestors saw with birds and mountains and rivers flowing like time Strange seed of all time, all tide rising and falling resonating earth rising and never ending As far as the eye can see the eye of god All years tears are lost and disappear, no, reappear forever in the eternal breath between sea and sky 5 Prophecy Evening birds flee the day’s sadness into the shadowed embrace of night there where I often seek daydreams like a fan-winged raven seeks a prophecy of a new day like yesterday … 6 Rain Of Pearls Tiny drop tiny drop, pearl amongst pearls in your eye a vision of your world in your eye an image of your god 7 O, Frón (Iceland), Your Mother … Dead calm, flat lies the ocean at ease and stares deep, deep into a sunny blue, star-clear sky that has always been and that never sleeps … Featherlight fingers of breeze play on bird-viols mermaids dance beneath an aeolian heaven that never sleeps … Lighthearted waves aroused by the swell play with cinders from the sun that never sleeps … quiet snow, rain or mystical mist covering with a bare veil the billowing sea that never sleeps … then up from the tormented silence of sleeping Ægir breaking its way through green-deep waves swelling, booming crested seas of the violent ocean that never sleeps … a burning, glowing, raging river of melting metal and bursting stones ashgrey, black screaming, bright spitting oozing with urgent fury to heaven toward a burning sun that never sleeps … Your birth, my land, was like a fatal disease no-one welcomed you but your mother, the ocean, protects you and feeds you and never, no, never she sleeps. [email protected]
More episodes of the podcast Sapphire FM On Demand
Wavelength World Of Music - Nov 16, 2025
16/11/2025
Wavelength World Of Music - Nov 1, 2025
01/11/2025
Wavelength World Of Music - Oct 19, 2025
19/10/2025
Wavelength World Of Music - Oct 5, 2025
05/10/2025
Wavelength World Of Music - Sept 18, 2025
18/09/2025
Wavelength World Of Music - Sept 2, 2025
02/09/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.