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Rachmaninov - Vespers Op.37 | Brilliant Classics 9100

Rachmaninov - Vespers Op.37

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9100

Barcode: 5029365910026

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 24th August 2009

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Contents

Artists

Olga Borusene (soprano)
Yuri Korinnyk (tenor)
Mykhaylo Tyshchenko (tenor)
National Academic Choir of Ukraine ’Dumka’

Conductor

Yevhen Savchuk

Works

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Vespers (All-Night Vigil), op.37

Artists

Olga Borusene (soprano)
Yuri Korinnyk (tenor)
Mykhaylo Tyshchenko (tenor)
National Academic Choir of Ukraine ’Dumka’

Conductor

Yevhen Savchuk

About

Rachmaninov 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.

Rachmaninov, 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. Rachmaninov's Vespers, like many of his most popular works, does not disappoint in its emotional impact and sincerity.

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