This week we explore the symbolism related with ‘climbing the mountain’.
“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Here is the audio and the playlist:
- Howard Shore – Misty Mountains [performed By Richard Armitage And The Dwarf Cast] (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
- Howard Shore – Under Hill (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
- Howard Shore – Over Hill (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
- Vangelis – Across the Mountains (Alexander OST)
- Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt, Op. 23)
- Edvard Grieg – Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter (Peer Gynt, Op. 23)
- Modest Mussorgsky – Night on bald mountain
- Novak, Vitezslav – II – Mountains (Symphonic Poem ‘Pan’)
- Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind – Rocky Mountains (The Shining)
- Karnnos – beneath the hilltops of ancient devotion (Dun scaith)
- Sturmpercht – Kaiser Karl Im Untersberge (Mia Runa (Disc I))
- :Golgatha: – Twighlight Hills (Kydos – Reflections On Heroism)
- Tor Lundvall – Hills in Flames (Insect Wings, Leaf Matter & Broken Twigs)
- Tor Lundvall – Hilltop (Under The Shadow Of Trees)
- Biosphere – poa alpina (Substrata)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Elevation (Without Sinking)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Erupting Light (Without Sinking)
- Adam Hurst – Highlands (Ruin)
- Sieben – A High Broad Field (High Broad Field)
- Sieben – Ogham on the Hill (Ogham Inside The Night)
- Paul Roland – wyndham hill (Looking For Europe)
- Ataraxia – Elevazione (1994 – Simphonia sine nomine)
- Moon Far Away – Iz-za gor (From Behind The Mountains) (Belovodie (Whitewaterland))
- Dawn & Dusk Entwined – The Sacred Mount Of Tara (A L’Aube Des Jours Anciens)
- A Challenge Of Honour – They Came Over The Hill (Seven Samurai)
- Sol Invictus – The Hill of Crosses (The Hill of Crosses)
- Von Thronstahl – Berg-Einsamkeit (Sacrificare)
- Ulver – Høyfjeldsbilde (The Mountaintops) (Kveldssanger)