Mirror of the Sun, a musical time travel [live performance by Via Artis Konsort]

Classical music for the heart and intellect. A classical art song based on a composition by 19th century woman composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia, arranged and extended by contemporary classical composer Poul Udbye Pock-Steen. The piece is part of the classical song cycle 'Mirror of the Sun'. THE SONG 'La Ausencia y la Tempestad' Translated, the composite title means: The Absence and the Storm. Behind this somewhat mysterious title lie two pieces of music: 1) L'absence, composed by Pauline Viardot-Garcia in 1850 Pauline Viardot-Garcia was a talented soprano, pianist, and composer, the daughter of the famous Spanish baritone Manuel García, who settled in Paris in the early 19th century. Pauline Viardot-Garcia befriended a great many personalities from cultural elite of the time, among them the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen. Pauline Viardot-Garcia's connection to Hans Christian Andersen came through the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale. Jenny LInd had ser