CD-RECORDINGS
Songs of Living Waters
24 songs composed to texts by the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Performers: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, tenor, Sigurdur Bragason, baritone, Hjörleifur Valsson, violin and Salbjörg Hotz, piano.
Total time: 72:33. Recorded by: Fermata, Iceland 2007.
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:
Tracks from the CD Songs of Living Waters. Performers: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, tenor, Sigurdur Bragason, baritone, Salbjörg Hotz, piano and Hjörleifur Valsson, violin.
Sigurdur Bragason, bariton and Salbjörg Hotz, piano
Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, tenor and Salbjörg Hotz, piano
Vision of Fire
14 songs to texts by Edvard T. Jónsson. Performers: Bergthór Pálsson, baritone, Signý Sæmundsdóttir, soprano and Salbjörg Hotz, piano.
Total time: 65:29. Recorded by: Fermata FM 019, Iceland 2002.
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.
Audio samples:
Tracks from the CD Vision of Fire. Performers: Bergthór Pálsson, bariton, Signý Sæmundsdóttir, soprano and Salbjörg Hotz, piano.
