Northern Lights (Ēriks Ešenvalds) - National Taiwan University Chorus

Performed on 2019/07/15, Taipei, Taiwan
Conductor：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝
Pianist：Hsin-Jung Hsieh 謝欣容
Solo：Tsung-Yu Hou 侯宗佑、Kuei-Jhu Chen 陳奎竹
Composer：Ēriks Ešenvalds
Audio recording engineer：Chao-Hui Wang 王昭惠
Cik naksnīnas pret ziemeli
Redzēj' kāvus karojam;
It was night,
And I had gone on deck several times.
Iceberg was silent; I too was silent.
Karo kāvi pie debesu,
Vedīs karus mūs' zemē.
It was true dark and cold.
At nine o'clock I was below in my cabin,
When the captain hailed me with the words:
“Come above, Hall, at once!
The world is on fire!”
I knew his meaning,
And, quick as thought,
I rushed to the companion stairs.
In a moment I reached the deck,
And as the cabin door swung open,
A dazzling light, overpow'ring light
Burst upon my startled senses!
Oh, the whole sky
Was one glowing mass of colored flames,
So mighty, so brave!
Like a pathway of light
The northern lights seemed to draw us into the sky.
Yes, it was harp-music,
Wild storming in the darkness;
The strings trembled and sparkled
In the glow of the flames
Like a shower of fiery darts.
A fiery crown of auroral light
Cast a warm glow across the arctic ice.
Again at times it was like softly playing,
Gently rocking, silvery waves,
On which dreams travel into unknown worlds.
Cik naksnīnas pret ziemeli
Redzēj' kāvus karojam.
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National Taiwan University Chorus 台大合唱團
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[@Alexanderhamilton87]

Taiwan is the best country I’ve ever visited. Such amazing educated intelligent people. So much love and Good Spirit. I hope I can visit u after those horrible events going on world wide.

[@robharris5467]

I love the way Tracy injects elements of musical theatre into the performances. Glasses here. Not easy with restricted space and such a lrge group. Well done as usual!

[@rayherbst6655]

Excellent!!!

[@arturslivmanis5901]

Coming from a Latvian: The pronounciation of both solo singers was astonishingly good 😮

[@mattg6262]

That intro though! Shivers

[@camillaleonard7169]

Wow!!

[@麥書豪]

這首的英文咬字超棒的超喜歡www

[@mikeshi7037]

作为大陆一名合唱指挥，真心觉得台湾的合唱 远远优于大陆！

[@mikeshi7037]

台湾本土童声合唱也比大陆好，大陆的童声太重技术了，情绪表达不儒台湾！音色纯度不如台湾！