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This song from 2010 touched me and stands for the vibe of the composer from Island. 
Ólafur simply begins with a fragile but forward-looking piano section, which alternately plays the delicate, delicately sensitive and thoughtful major seventh chords with harmonies from the scale. The naive, childish C  changes often with a lot of the for me key tone: A minor, which reinforces this initial character. Berlioz already used to say the following about the key in A minor: "quite complete, sweet, sad, relatively sublime."

There is a gentle inkling of the light, which is also indicated in the video, not real, but only in dreams.

When the strings begin to begin - and mostly with Ólafur Arnalds I feel a supporting, already maternal or paternal component of the arrangement of the strings - the window opens and the bird is given the opportunity to think about breaking out.

It is interesting that the strings take up the dissonant tension right at the beginning. The violin II. begins with the dominant E (from A) in bar 25, while the violin I. with an F causes the tension in bar 27. The strings, which give the walking piano the security and the basis, show solidarity with the fragility of the piano, so to speak.

But with the next tone G in bar 29 there is a third now and this gives the feeling that the strings provide the bird's wide horizon, which slowly but boldly develops in it.

Encouraged and backed by the security strings, the piano in bar 41 begins to develop a bouncy character.

With the use of viola and cello, the bird in bar 53 is encouraged to consider the open window more and more and to get out of the darkness of his home. This shows the viola, "the violin tuned deeper by the fifth" and the cello is given further strengthening and depth of field for the bird.

When percussions begin in measure 61, the bird flies off. While the strings stand for deep motivation and encouragement, the drums stand for subsequent action - the bird pursues its longing for the light.

The strings gave him a hunch, the percussions kicked the ass.

From bar 69, the bird's hope and the will to strive for the light intensify, as Ólafur begins staccato in the strings. In bar 74 the percussions with quarters follow, again encouraged by the strings, who give security in this piece.

Up to bar 95, the song builds up in an exciting and hopeful way, until it then reaches the peak of confidence in this bar. Violin I., which has taken the lead in this part, resigns, now the strings have fulfilled their purpose: they have opened up the prospect of hope. The bird is still flying in snow and rain, and yet everyone knows that happiness is already in the way. The way is the goal because curiosity carries hope.

Violin I's mission is accomplished.