Re: Völuspá set to music by Jón Þórarinsson, online at RUV web

Hints for anyone trying to follow the words. I lost track a bit on
the more complicated choral bits, but from what I could make out, it
doesn't stick rigidly to the manuscript order; it begins with 'Ár var
alda', which strophe recurs later as a refrain. From the arrival of
the 'þursar meyjar', it moves to the destruction of the world, and
concludes with the new world that appears afterwards - so it's really
just the beginning and end of the narrative. Happy 90th birthday
yesterday to the composer!

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:
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> Sung by Ágúst Ólafsson. Broadcast live yesterday. For the full
> programme, see "Gul tónleikaröð, Norrænar sagnir, 13.9.2007" here:
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> http://www.sinfonia.is/default.asp?page_id=2038
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> Carl Nielsen: Sögudraumur (Saga-dröm), op. 39
> Jean Sibelius: Tapiola, op. 112
> Jón Þórarinsson: Völuspá
> Rued Langgaard: Sinfónía nr. 5
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> You can listen online at the RUV website here:
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> http://dagskra.ruv.is/streaming/ras1/?file=4358848
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> Click on "19.27 Sinfóníutónleikar Norrænar sagnir". If Firefox won't
> play it, try Internet Explorer; that works for me. To find the
> beginning of Völuspá, put the right end of the moving bar (the thing
> with the two green ends that moves along from left to right as the
> programme plays) level with the faint vertical line between STOP and
> the RETURN-TO-BEGINNING-OF-PROGRAMME button. If that makes any sense...
>