Opera Cellissimo performs a Swedish song Christmas song - Koppången (Per-Erik Moraeus)
Soprano Egita Gielen together with Swedish Cellist @PetronellaTorin brings to you this Christmas tune from Sweden Koppången by Per-Erik Moraeus.
This song was composed only in 1998, but has already been established as a Christmas classic not only in Sweden, but in other countries as well.
The name and the inspiration for the song come from the wetlands and nature preserve Koppången, near the Moraeus family home in Orsa Municipality, Dalarna, Sweden.
Here is a translation of the text in English:
There is stillness and silence, as the ground is coloured white
From the safe, old church the song is flowing out
I have paused at the road to rest for a while
And was caught by the borderland that unites night and day
And a ray of light behind the arched window frame
Has united those spirits that are here in time with us
And I know that those who have left us have understood that we are
Like flickering flames as long as we are here
And there among twinkling stars that fade one by one
Life comes really close, like a glimpse of truth
We are prisoners in time, like a palmprint
On a frosty old window given mercy by the passing of time
For a second I am eternal and then I know nothing more
Only this, that I live as fully as any other
I am here and in the middle of a frozen road there is still warmt
Even as the snow starts falling and the sky turns grey
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