Скачать или смотреть Ólafur Arnalds - Saman. Harp cover by Tamara Young

I was asked to record a lockdown recital as part of the Orpheus Sinfonia Foundation Synergy concert series back in March. This is a little preview I thought would be nice to share of the last piece I chose to play by the Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds.

Volcanism
by Jónas Þorbjarnarson (1960-2012)
Translation by Bernard Scudder

We are the ever-changing earth
always taking shape
new maps immediately misleading
new upheavals
I was someone and then I met you. . .
people change each other
even cause eruptions within each other
for deep down we are kindled, determined
by all kinds of magmatic associations
and a mountain of love rises—
lifting the landscape of our lives
we are the ever-changing earth