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For many people, Advent and Christmas are a time of light, hope and warmth. But the world around us is cold and turbulent. Wars are being waged. People are fleeing their homes. Children are dying. Thousands of people lack food and medicine. We pray for peace. We sing “Beautiful is our earth! Glorious is God’s heaven!” as a protest song for peace and justice, because the world is unjust. During the Advent season, many of us like to sing the familiar and popular Christmas carols that we know from our childhood and that have been sung for generations. On this album you can hear songs in these traditional arrangements, but also in completely new arrangements created especially for the Uranienborg Vocal Ensemble and for this recording. Christmas can be a festival that intensifies our feelings – what is good seems to get even better, and what hurts feels even more painful. Perhaps we have lost someone close to us: can we then sing “Oh, Christmas, so merry”? We know that there are people who look forward to Christmas and dread it at the same time, and we believe that Kjetil Bjerkestrand’s arrangement emphasizes this element of ambiguity and irony. The birth of Jesus – that is the message of Christmas! – A birth that changed the world forever.