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Every year around the winter solstice we join a human heritage dating back millennia in the northern hemisphere, confronting the longest night with joyful, festive noise. I don t think contemporary humans can really understand the terror the long nights must have held for humans in Neolithic and earlier times, particularly for humans spreading into the northern hemisphere. The short days, long nights and impending winter was the most dangerous time of the year. Humanity did what it has always done, it makes noise, it dances, it performs rituals, it rages against the dying of the light. The celebration of Christmas is part of this lineage. I love creating a musical journey which echoes this ancient heritage. This year the darkness comes from German composer Hans Werner Henze and a new recording of his "Tristan" with pianist Igor Levit. Hans Werner Henze was born in 1926, and, like many post-war Germans, had a very conflicted and difficult relationship with the past. As a comm

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