Uranienborg Vokalensemble & Elisabeth Holte - Fred over jorden (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

Advent and Christmas are for many people a time for light and hope and warmth. Yet the world around us is cold and turbulent. Wars are being fought. People are fleeing from their homes. Children are dying. Thousands of people lack food and medicine. Our prayers are for peace. We sing "Beautiful is our Earth! Glorious is God’s heaven!" as a protest song for peace and justice, the world being unjust.

During Advent many of us are fond of the familiar and much-loved Christmas carols as we remember them from our childhood, and as they have been sung for generations. There are carols in these traditional arrangements on this album, but there are others in completely new arrangements, made specially for Uranienborg Vokalensemble and for this recording.

Christmas can be a festival that intensifies our feelings – what is good seems even better, and what hurts feels even more painful. Perhaps we have lost someone close to us: can we then sing "Oh, Christmas, so cheerful"? We know that there are people who look forward to Christmas but at the same time dread it, and we believe that Kjetil Bjerkestrand's arrangement brings out this element of equivocation and irony. The birth of Jesus – this is the message of Christmas! – a birth that changed the world for ever. May your Christmas be peaceful!

TRACKLIST

1. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Henriette Viktoria Eide Skagen - Transeamus
2. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte - Rydd vei for Herrens komme
3. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte - Nå vandrer fra hver en verdenskrok
4. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Øystein Moen - Kling no klokka

5. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Jenny Helene Syse; Johan Andreas Trovik - Deilig er den himmel blå
6. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Øystein Moen; Roystan James; Marianne Støylen - Velsigna du dag over fjordan (Nordnorsk julesalme)
7. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Henriette Viktoria Eide Skagen - Jeg synger julekvad
8. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Henriette Viktoria Eide Skagen - Det hev ei rose sprunge / Hallelujah from the heart of God
9. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Henriette Viktoria Eide Skagen; Torun Torbo - Joleklokker
10. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Victoria Marie Mostue; Kristian Øgaard - Deilig er jorden
11. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Øystein Moen - O jul med din glede
12. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Øystein Moen; Tiina Klami Kristianslund; Marianne Støylen - Voggesong
13. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Øystein Moen; Henriette Viktoria Eide Skagen - Lacrimosa
14. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Frøya Plahte Stavem - Eit barn er født i Betlehem
15. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte; Kjetil Bjerkestrand; Øystein Moen; Hanne Myrvoll; Jenny Helene Syse - I en natt
16. Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte - Jul, jul, strålande jul



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