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Marlidendur by William Harper
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fave it Contemporary | Orchestral
6 tracks | 22 minutes
Released Feb 2005
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Postminimal music for string orchestra, percussion and boy's choir
Bio / Background
Marlidendur is performed by the Riga Dome Boy's Choir and the Baltic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Gudmundur Emilsson.
The title Marlidendur is taken from a poem of the same name by the great Icelandic poet, Jóhann Hjálmarsson. The poem describes an Icelander experiencing his present through senses suffused with the deep violent past of Iceland - especially the spiritual and social foundations described in the Saga of the People of Eyri.
I am told by Mr. Hjálmarsson's translator Geir Svansson that
a Marlidendur was, perhaps, a sort of a malevolent spirit or
witch, possibly in disguise. But for an Icelandic person today
the word is quite opaque. They only recognize "mar" as "sea,"
"lídendur" as "sufferers" and "lída" as "drift" or "float.
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