Hirundo Maris SILENT NIGHT

The year ends its round. This is the time when the night is sovereign. In the dark, faces move away. Life goes to sleep. The hours move differently. Everything is different: the familiar trees, the streets of the village, the sounds of the house. Strange face of the world, frightening mystery of darkness. When winter comes, the great ancestral fear comes back too, the anguish rising from the origins. When will the day come back? When will the light be reborn? When will life return to its colors? And what if the world should descend into eternal night and cold? What if the old world should die? At the solstice people approach the stars; their hearts are frightened by their smallness and weakness. So, wisely, they contemplate the universe, and the place of their small world in a big world. It is the time of celebrations. To ward off fear, people gather. They hope for the promise of a new dawn. They seek illumination in the fires they light. Innumerable, the years that make up the history of humanity. Innumerable, the destinies that have crossed the bridge of time. The human tapestry unfolds through the seasons. Some stitches are marked with gold. Here is the story that has illuminated, forever and forever, the march of humans down the centuries. 

Hirundo Maris, the ensemble led by the Catalan Arianna Savall and the Norwegian Petter Udland Johansen, invites us on a mystical journey into the magic world of winter, Advent and Christmas music. This special programme of music, assembled by Hirundo Maris, contains songs with traditional roots and ancient origins, songs from the North and the South, filled with rejoicing, and songs of the present that embrace the songs of the past. Hirundo Maris is characterized by very personal and creative musical arrangements and a love of the past merging with the present. In this programme the ancient spirit harmonizes with the modern.