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The album assimilates distinct qualities from the major musical eras (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern), creating a unique and varied experience that presents the listener with an array of moods and sentiments. One aspect of Northern Lights that sets it apart from a lot of other modern classical and choral work is its diversity. Both the title and cover of the album set the stage for what is to come this music is the idyllic soundtrack for sitting on a snow bank outside Alaska mid-September amongst the towering pines, gazing towards the heavens at the Aurora Borealis so neatly juxtaposed against its obsidian backdrop. Northern Lights is a collection of classical choral pieces from conductor Ola Gjeilo that range from three minutes all the way to nearly thirteen.

It presents you with a schematic that promises long term pleasure for the sacrifice of immediate accessibility. Ola Gjeilo challenges the average music listener. Were those events ones that challenged your original beliefs? Were they ones that caused initial friction succeeded by wonder, like when a child touches a metal doorknob after running around on a carpet, and is met with a shock that at first causes pain, but then internally stirs awe and excitement? Think back to the most important times in your own life, the times where you can see an evolution of self from point A to point B. Everyone can admit that trying new things is scary, but that fear and risk is necessary to grow as an individual. Isn’t it easy to say no? There’s a comfort and simplicity involved in rejection it takes no time, no effort, and no reason.

Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have made me flee away.Review Summary: Out of sight, out of mind Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army set in array. Averte oculos tuos a me quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt. Pulchra es amica mea, suavis et decora sicut Jerusalem, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.

Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra (2014).

This lists any discs, concerts or collections where this piece is included. It is one of the most beautiful natural phenomena I’ve ever witnessed, and has such a powerful, electric quality that must have been both mesmerizing and terrifying to people in the past, when no one knew what it was and when much superstition was attached to these experiences. Looking out from an attic window one Christmas close to Oslo, over a wintry lake under the stars, I was thinking about how this ‘terrible’ beauty is so profoundly reflected in the northern lights, or aurora borealis, which, having grown up in the southern part of the country, I have only seen once or twice in my life. About a ‘terrible’, powerful beauty, although the music is quite serene on the surface. Most of all, this piece and its text is about beauty. Note that in the preparation for the premiere and the recording, Ola encouraged us to take the tempo as written and not to let it get bogged down. This is a robust and demanding work, harmonically challenging and requiring strength and flexibility in equal measure. The sound recording was originally available on iTunes as a single track, and as of October 2015 is also included in Elektra’s 13th CD: “Still”. Ola’s “Northern Lights”, well-known in its original SATB setting, was written for Elektra in 2014. Your browser does not support the audio element.