Silent Earth and Silent Heavens - A Beautiful Spiritual Song of Hope

Silent Earth and Silent Heavens is an old Slovenian Christmas folk song from Carinthia (now south Austria). Slovenian composer Ambrož Čopi did an execelent arrangement.

chorus master: Jerica Bukovec
soloists:
Anamarija Kastelic
Urška Bernik
Luka Juteršek
Martin Kozjek

AMBROZ COPI (1973) was born in Bovec (Slovenia). Having completed the Secondary Music and Ballet School in Ljubljana he went on to study composition and piano at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana and in 1996 graduated in the composition class of Dane Škerl; he completed his post-graduate studies in the class of Uroš Rojko. His compositions received awards at numerous composer competitions. His compositions are included on copyrighted CD’s: Lyrical Aquarelles (by the Academic choir APZ Tone Tomšic, conducted by Stojan Kuret) and Birdies were still dreaming (CarniCe, conductor Stojan Kuret), as well as on various CDs by national and foreign choirs. His compositions were published by the publishing houses Astrum, DSS, and Sulasol. For his outstanding achievements during his study Ambroz Copi was awarded the Young Musician Award in 1995, in 1997 he won the Prešeren Prize of the University of Ljubljana and was upon merit awarded the Bovec Municipal Award in 1997. For his interpretations he was awarded several special prizes; he further received prizes for exceptional achievements with the choir and was selected the best conductor of the competition. In 2009 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Primorska for the achievements with the APZ UP choir. Among his great successes are also his music tours to Iceland, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, England, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As a professional adjudicator and member of the competition juries, he is regularly invited to various choral events and competitions, and as a lecturer, he is involved in choral music seminars at home and abroad.

SLOVENIAN PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

sopranos:
Anamarija Kastelic
Mateja Langus
Katarina Lenarčič
Suzana Omejc
Polona Plaznik

altos
Urška Bernik
Emilija Lavriha
Polonca Ribič Žnidaršič
Romana Vengust
Vladimira Vremšak

tenors
Gašper Banovec
Igor Drnovšek
Luka Juteršek

bases
Žiga Berložnik
Matevž Kink
Tomaž Koder
Boris Vremšak
Martin Kozjek

artistic director of Slovenian Philharmonic Choir
Gregor Klančič

acting director of Slovenian Philharmonics
Matej Šarc

PRODUCTION CREW

sound master
Danilo Ženko
Iztok Zupan

scenografija in floral
Ivo Uršič

additional scenography
Taja Križnar - Starčič
Tinkara Šubic

head of the production
Gal Nagode

light design
Janez Kocjan

light:
Event Lighting

dolly grip
Dan Ažman

director of photography
Juš Hrastnik

camera assistant
Gal Nagode

editing and colour
Primož Zevnik
Juš Hrastnik

technical lead
Dan Ažman

assistant technician
Jakob Zevnik

executive producer and director assistant
Juš Hrastnik

direction:
Primož Zevnik

productions:
TAJUS
PPZ
SLOVENIAN PHILHARMONICS

lyrics:
Silent earth and silent heavens,
oceans calmly now at rest.
The silent world with all its trials
therein lies our blessed Lord.
From great love, He is the chosen
He who lies on the straw that's frozen.
How He suffers from the cold,
giving grace to young and old.
Sleep now softly, little Jesus,
sleep, my Jesus, trouble-free;
soon they'll grab You, soon they'll harm You
and dreams will end bitterly.
Then you'll suffer, barely standing,
thus you'll pay for Your sweet slumber,
as Your foes and Pharisees
making nights sleep hard and tough.
(translation: Keith L. Moore)

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