SKU: BT.WH33221A

Solo recorder part. “Songs of Solitude and Night” is in two movements. The first movement has text from Völuspá from the Old Edda, and is called “Prelude”. The text is about creation of the earth, the stars, the sun, the moon andthe first people on earth, Ask and Embla. The second movement is a poem by the faroese author William Heinesen translated into english by the faroese author Gunnar Hoydal and is called “Hogboy”. The poem begins like this: “Hogboy,the spectre with the cheery name, lives in the mound Mae s Hove in the Orkney island of Pomona. Here you can hear him singing bewildered songs in the dark. Playful Pomona girls are dancing in the moonlight around the old grave.

SKU: BT.WH33221

ISBN 9788759859445.

Full score. “Songs of Solitude and Night” is in two movements. The first movement has text from Völuspá from the Old Edda, and is called “Prelude”. The text is about creation of the earth, the stars, the sun, the moon and thefirst people on earth, Ask and Embla. The second movement is a poem by the faroese author William Heinesen translated into english by the faroese author Gunnar Hoydal and is called “Hogboy”. The poem begins like this: “Hogboy, thespectre with the cheery name, lives in the mound Mae s Hove in the Orkney island of Pomona. Here you can hear him singing bewildered songs in the dark. Playful Pomona girls are dancing in the moonlight around the old grave”.