Fred over jorden Uranienborg Vokalensemble & Elisabeth Holte

• 1 Transeamus 02:17
• 2 Rydd vei for Herrens komme 02:29
• 3 Nå vandrer fra hver en verdenskrok 02:44
• 4 Kling no klokka 03:50
• 5 Deilig er den himmel blå 03:33
• 6 Velsigna du dag over fjordan (Nordnorsk julesalme) 04:26
• 7 Jeg synger julekvad 05:10
• 8 Det hev ei rose sprunge / Hallelujah from the heart of God 04:30
• 9 Joleklokker 04:46
• 10 Deilig er jorden 04:21
• 11 O jul med din glede 04:11
• 12 Voggesong 03:31
• 13 Lacrimosa 04:28
• 14 Eit barn er født i Betlehem 03:52
• 15 I en natt 03:21
• 16 Jul, jul, strålande jul 02:35
• Total Runtime 01:00:04

Info for Fred over jorden

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!

Uranienborg Vokalensemble
Elisabeth Holte, conductor
Kjetil Bjerkestrand, synthesizers
Øystein Moen, synthesizers
Torun Torbo, flute
Henriette Viktoria Eide Skagen, organ

Engineered, recorded, edited, mixed, mastered and produced by Morten Lindberg

Uranienborg Vocal Ensemble
was founded in January 2002 and consists of 20-24 singers. Elisabeth Holte has been the ensemble's artistic director and conductor since its inception. Over the years the ensemble has performed numerous concerts of sacred and secular music from different periods. Variation in style and a strong emphasis on communication is a hallmark of their performances. In the words of a review in Norwegian Church Music after the choir's performance during Nordic Church Music Symposium in Reykjavik in September 2012: 'Rarely have we experienced music that moves so many at one concert”.

Elisabeth Holte,
the conductor and artistic director of Uranienborg Vocal Ensemble, graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music as an organist and choirmaster, completing her Master's degree in conducting in 2000. She has also studied under the legendary Prof. Eric Ericson in Stockholm.

Booklet for Fred over jorden