HIMMELRAND - Uranienborg Vokalensemble, Elisabeth Holte, Inger-Lise Ulsrud Discrete Immersive Audio DXD On the contrary – over

On the contrary – over and over again he managed to adjust to the shifting phases of his life and art

so that by a gentle change of key or pulse we can make the melodies shed a clarifying light on each other

Mari Skeie Ljones

with a Northern Timbre we feel resonates

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

HIMMELRAND - Uranienborg Vokalensemble, Elisabeth Holte, Inger-Lise Ulsrud Discrete Immersive Audio DXD On the contrary – overThe Church of Norway's new Hymnal came into use in 2013. Its goal is twofold: to hold on to traditions from earlier hymnals and to bring in something new, with texts in a modern idiom and with new melodies and new harmonic ideas. The texts of Nordic hymns belong to a shared Scandinavian heritage. They deal with sorrow and joy, faith and doubt, and express in words some of life's most painful events. There is nothing static about the hymn tradition; on