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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Artists: National Academic Choir Ukraine "Dumka",
Yevhen Savchuk (conductor)
Rachmaninoff was not a great churchgoer, and in fact had stopped going completely by the time he composed his Vespers, and his other great a cappella work, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom op.31. Nevertheless, he retained a love for and interest in the ecclesiastical chant, and perhaps the most famous of these, the Dies irae, appears in his First Symphony and the late Symphonic Dances of 1940.
Rachmaninoff, like his great predecessor Tchaikovsky, was very critical of his own music, but he considered the Vespers and his choral symphony The Bells among his favourites. The Vespers had to wait until 1965 for the first recording due to the Soviet anti-religion stance. Even then it was released for export only.
Russian Orthodox Church music never fails to move and stir the emotions, whether one is religious or not. Rachmaninoff ’s Vespers, like many of his most popular works, does not disappoint in its emotional impact and sincerity.
Tracklist:
00:00:00 Vespers, Op. 37: Come, Let Us Worship
00:01:43 Vespers, Op. 37: Bless the Lord, O my soul
00:06:32 Vespers, Op. 37: Blessed be the man
00:12:09 Vespers, Op. 37: O serene light
00:15:36 Vespers, Op. 37: Now let Thy servant depart
00:19:32 Vespers, Op. 37: Rejoice, O Virgin
00:21:55 Vespers, Op. 37: Glory to God in the highest
00:24:43 Vespers, Op. 37: Praise the name of the Lord
00:27:13 Vespers, Op. 37: Blessed art Thou, O Lord
00:33:13 Vespers, Op. 37: Having seen the Resurrection of the Lord
00:36:27 Vespers, Op. 37: My soul magnifies the Lord
00:46:09 Vespers, Op. 37: Glory to God in the highest
00:53:56 Vespers, Op. 37: Troparia of the day of salvation
00:55:54 Vespers, Op. 37: Christ is risen from the grave
00:59:25 Vespers, Op. 37: Thanksgiving to the Mother of God
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