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Songs of living Waters

Söngvar lifandi vatna

 

Text: Báb, Bahá'u'lláh & 'Abdu'l-Bahá

 

Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, tenor

Sigurdur Bragason, baritone

Hjörleifur Valsson, violin

Salbjörg hotz, piano

 

Total time: 72:33

Recorded by: Fermata, Iceland 2007

The CD includes 24 songs. The texts are 9 prayers from the Writings of the Bahá'í-Religion, 14 meditations from the Hidden Words revealed by Bahá'u'lláh and a quotation. The songs are sung in Icelandic with piano accompaniment and partly with violin.

 

Audio samples

Seg: Guð nægir öllu framar öllu / Say: God Sufficeth all Things

Sameina hjörtu þjóna þinna / Unite the Hearts of Thy Servants

Fyrsta ráð mitt / My first Council

Hjúpaður ómunaverund minni / Veiled in My Immemorial Being

Ég unni sköpun þinni / I loved thy Creation

Þú ert lampi minn / Thou art My Lamp

Auðugan skóp ég þig / I Created thee Rich

Þú ert ríki mitt / Thou art My Dominion

Krafa mín á hendur þér / My Claim on thee is Great

Ljá eyra þessum orðum / Give Ear unto this

Aragrúi dulrænna tungna / Myriads of Mystic Tongues

 

 

Vision of Fire

Sýn af eldi

 

Text: Edvard T. Jónsson

 

Bergthór Pálsson, baritone

Signý Sæmundsdóttir, soprano

Salbjörg Hotz, piano

 

Total time: 65:29

Recorded by: Fermata FM 019, Iceland 2002 

The CD includes 14 songs. The texts are poems in Icelandic by Edvard T. Jónsson. The stage of the story told in the songs is Iran in the 19th century. The poems express the fire of sufferings, ideals and promises and  are poetical interpretations based on historic facts.

 

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Birtan tæra / The Pristine Light

Brúðkaupið á torginu / The Wedding in the Marketplace

Sýn af eldi / Vision of Fire

Söngur fanganna / The Song of the Prisoners

Í hafdjúp orðsins / In the Ocean of Words

Greinin skíra / The Purest Branch

'Abdu'l-Bahá / 'Abdu'l-Bahá