TES V: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - Beneath The Ice

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - Journey's End

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - The Gathering Storm

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - Sky Above, Voice Within

The Elder Scrolls V- Skyrim OST - Ancient Stones

The Elder Scrolls V- Skyrim OST - Dawn

TES V Skyrim Soundtrack - Silence Unbroken

The Titan Atlas is well-known as the holder of the heavens. This was his sentence for his part in the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods for control of the heavens. He is also found in Roman myth concerning Heracles.
In one of the Twelve Labours, Heracles was required to get some of the golden apples that grew in Hera's garden tended by Atlas’ daughters. Heracles volunteered to hold up the heavens while Atlas got the apples from his daughters. When Atlas came back with the apples he tried to trick Heracles and free himself from the burden of his punishment. Heracles was no fool and pretended to agree, asking Atlas to hold the sky whilst he fixed his cloak. Heracles ran away with the apples. 
In some myths Heracles built the two great Pillars of Hercules to hold the sky away from the earth, liberating Atlas much as he liberated Prometheus.
Using this story as its inspiration, the piece is introduced with an orchestral tutti accent much like that used in Carmina Burana ‘O Fortuna'. This develops into a flowing melody over a reiterated ostinato. The music settles to a calm pastoral theme based on the initial tutti motif before returning to a recapitulation on the main theme.

Atlas

Written in October 2025. Violin and orchestra.
Seated nude, Janet Cumbrae-Stewart.

Violin Concerto 6 (ii)

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - Awake

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - The City Gates

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - The Streets Of Whiterun

The Elder Scrolls V  Skyrim OST - Solitude

The Elder Scrolls V- Skyrim OST - Out Of The Cold

The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim - From Past to Present

The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim OST - The City Gates

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