Hymn to the Sun
Hymn to the Sun
orchestra and voices
Music: Jim Berenholtz
Lyrics: Akhenaten
Egyptian transliteration by the late Professor William Murnane.
English translations from William Murnane,
and from the version in Akhenaten and the Religion of Light by Erik Hornung, translated from the German by David Lorton. Copyright © 1999 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. Translations edited and revised by Jim Berenholtz.
The revolutionary pharoah Akhenaten, with his mystical philosophy of solar light, was a major source of inspiration for me in the creation of the entire Psalms of RA project. I could not possibly have considered doing this work without including his exquisitely poetic, 3,400 year old "Hymn to the Sun".
Duration (minutes): 20
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