A Moment Standing Still - Solstice 2016 Playlist

The term solstice is derived from the Latin scientific term solstitium. Containing the Latin sol- meaning “the sun” and sistere meaning “to make stand.”

Winter Solstice--a moment the earth stands still before approaching perihelion, its coming closest to Earth--the magnetic magnitude fully felt--when electricity shifts and wind, and we turn slowly again toward the light. But until that turning, I can't not look into where I'm becoming.

Playlist includes:

  • Go - Gracie and Rachel

  • Eyes Shut - Ólafur Arnalds and Alice Sara Ott - The Chopin Project

  • Winter Darkness - Nils Økland and Georg Buljo - Neve

  • Dark Sea - Lumen Drones

  • Månelyst - Nils Okland

  • Tiptoe - Gracie and Rachel

  • Over Tones - Benedicte Maurseth and Åsne Valland Nordli - Over Tones

  • Primo Capriccio - Eleanor Frey

  • Fjöll í austri fagurblá - Sigur Rós featuring Steindór Andersen

  • Yoik of the Wind

  • Frates - Arvo Pärt composer, performed by Lana Trotovsek violin and Yoko Misumi piano

  • Horisont - Nils Økland

  • How to Pray - David Lang

  • "My Heart's in the Highlands" from the film “The Great Beauty” - Arvo Pärt composer, Robert Burns poet, Else Torp soprano

  • Heysátan - Sigur Rós

  • Ø - Nils Økland

  • Nordafjells - Benedicte Maurseth

  • RE - Nils Økland

  • Lux Aeterna - György Ligeti

  • The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams composer, Hilary Hahn violin

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