Ah, mio cor! by Händel. Filmed by Sigríður Anna Ásgeirsdóttir

Allir gráta (Everybody Cries)

Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir - mezzo soprano

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Aladár Rácz - piano and harpsichord

Júlíana Elín Kjartansdóttir - violin

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Fjölnir Gíslason - light design

Hany Hadaya - program design

María Þórarinsdóttir - handkerchiefs

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Program 

• Flow my tears - John Dowland 

• Bikarinn - Eyþór Stefánsson 

• Hvíslar mér hlynur - Jón Ásgeirsson 

• Asturiana - Manuel de Falla                                  

• Sapphische Ode - Johannes Brahms 

• Kdyz mne stara matka - Antonín Dvorak 

• Les berceaux - Gabriel Fauré 

• Va, laissez couler mes larmes - Jules Massenet

• Sento in seno - Antonio Vivaldi

• Ah, mio cor! - Georg Friedrich Händel

• Erbarme dich - Johann Sebastian Bach

• Vocalise - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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With the exception of the last one, every song on this program is composed to a text containing tears or crying of some sort. Some portray deep despair, misery or heart ache while others are melancholic and perhaps a little nostalgic. In some cases there is a hint of a smile behind the tears. The program ends with a humble prayer for mercy before we fly off into eternity.

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