Album
   
Album title
YULE
Performer
Trio Mediæval
Sinikka Langeland, kantele
Vegar Vårdal, hardanger fiddle and fiddle
Arve Henriksen, trumpet and organ
Anders Jormin, double bass
Helge Andreas Norbakken, percussion
Morten Lindberg, balance engineer and recording producer
Catalogue #
2L-180-SABD
2L-180-LP45
EAN13
7041888527527 (SABD)
7041888527558 (vinyl)
ISRC-code
NOMPP2405010-180

Disc 1
Hybrid SACD
MCH 5.1 DSD
Stereo DSD
RedBook PCM: MQA CD
Disc 2 Pure Audio Blu-ray
2.0 LPCM 192/24
5.1 DTS HDMA 192/24
7.1.4 Auro-3D 96kHz
7.1.4 Dolby Atmos 48kHz
mShuttle: MQA + FLAC + MP3
Region: ABC - worldwide


Release date
November 2024
Recording date
March 2024
Location
Sofienberg Church, Norway
Original source
DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
 

YULE

To be released November 22, 2024

The celebration of YULE in Northern Europe harks back to a transition from ancient Pagan Germanic culture to the more formal spirituality of the newer Christian rite. Christmas, as we mostly now call it, gave us hymns, processions and chants, and in between, silence in church. Yule meant a vibrant pre-Christian secularity, with feasting and dancing, the noise of instruments and decorating the house with holly, ivy and mistletoe as a tribute to the gods of earth and air. Much of the music on this album dates from an earlier time when in a throwback to Yule churches were decorated with Christmas greenery, and at home there would be carols sung round a burning Yule log, the two traditions side by side. But the songs on this album are contemporary performances, a matrix where acappella voices meet improvising instruments in a synthesis of secular and sacred.

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Hailed as a "fascinating journey with music of timeless beauty", Trio Mediæval's acclaimed first disc "Words of the Angel" in 2001 launched the group into the elite circles of early music ensembles and introduced them to a broad international audience. Formed in 1997, the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble consists of founder members Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Anna Maria Friman, and Jorunn Lovise Husan, who joined the group in 2018.



Julefeiringen i Nord-Europa har røtter helt tilbake til overgangen fra hedensk, germansk kultur til de kristne ritualers mer formelle spiritualitet. Den kristne julefeiringen, som i engelsktalende land ble døpt "Christmas", Kristmesse, har gitt oss salmer, hymner og koraler, og innimellom dette, stillhet i kirken. Den gamle julen, som i engelsktalende land heter YULE, ble feiret med før-kristen verdslighet og omfattet festing og dansing, lyden av instrumenter, og pynt av kristtorn, eføy og misteltein for å hedre jordens og luftens guder. Mye av musikken på dette albumet stammer fra en tidligere tidsalder og en tilbakevending til den gamle Yule-feiringen da kirkene ble pyntet med eviggrønt og i hjemmet ble det sunget sanger rundt peisen hvor julekubben brant gjennom hele høytiden. To tradisjoner side om side. Men sangene på denne innspillingen er moderne realiseringer, en syntese mellom det verdslige og det sakrale der det vokal møter improviserende instrumenter.

"En fascinerende reise med tidløs vakker musikk" skrev anmelderne om Trio Mediævals kritikerroste debutplate "Words of the Angel" i 2001. Suksessen brakte trioen internasjonal oppmerksomhet og status blant eliten av tidligmusikkensembler. Det Grammy-nominerte vokalensemblet ble startet i 1997 og består av grunnleggerne Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman, og Jorunn Lovise Husan som har vært medlem siden 2018.

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