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Anthology of Russian Sacred Music | Melodiya MELCD1001661

Anthology of Russian Sacred Music

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Label: Melodiya

Cat No: MELCD1001661

Barcode: 4600317016617

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 8

Release Date: 15th March 2010

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The aim of this anthology is to acquaint a broad range of listeners with the main highlights in the development of Russian sacred music over ten centuries.

The 8 CDs cover music from the early znamenny chants to later Russian church music, the works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov and 20th century Russian sacred music.

Contents:
Vol.1: Early Russian Chants
1. O, Come, Let Us Worship. Bless the Lord, O My Soul
2. Peaceful Light (hymn, Kiev chant)
3. Lord, Now Lettest Thou
4. Hail Mary, Full of Grace
5. The Six Psalms: Psalm No.3
6. King of Heaven (dogmatikon)
7. Glorious Easter (canticle, tone 5)
8. Let God Arise (canticle, tone 5)

Ivan the Terrible
9. Canticle No.1, upon the Passing Away of Pyotr, Metropolitan of Moscow and of All of Russia (fragment)

Tsar Feodor
10. It Is Truly Meet
11. King of Heaven (Znamenny chant)
12. O Come, Let Us Worship
13. Lo, the Bridegroom Comes at Midnight (Znamenny chant)
14. Thrice Holy
15. Peaceful Light
16. Praise the Name of the Lord
17. Communion Anthem
18. From the Time of My Youth (Demestvenny chant)
19. It Is Truly Meet
20. Cherubic Hymn

Total time: 71.24

Vol.2: Masters of the Early Polyphonic Style
Nikolai Diletsky
1. Easter Canon
2. Accept the Body of Christ
3. Divine Service

Vasily Titov
4. Bless the Lord, O My Soul (psalm)
5. Christmas Concerto, for 12 part chorus
6. Praise the Name of the Lord
7. Immacualte Virgin (concerto for two choruses)
8. Hirmoses of the Canon 'Katabasis', for two choruses
9. Universal Praise (concerto for two choruses)

Total time: 73.29

Vol.3: The Choral Concerto of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Maxim Berezovsky
1. Do Not Forsake me in My Old Age (concerto)

Dmitri Bortnyansky
2. Glory to God in the Hightest (concerto No.VI)
3. I Have Cried to the Lord with My Voice (concerto No.XXVII)
4. How Amiable Are Thy Inhabitance, O Lord (concerto No.XVII)
5. Why Art Thou Lamentable, O My Soul (concerto No.XXXIII)
6. Let God Arise (concerto No.XXXIV)
7. We Praise Thee, O God (concerto)

Total time: 70.47

Vol.4: The Moscow Composers from the Early 20th Century
Mikhail Rechkunov
1. This Day. Prokeimenon During the Week of Easter

Alexander Nikolsky
2. Day of Resurrection (canon)

Alexander Kastalsky
3. Christ Has Risen

Alexander Grechaninov
4. Praise the Name of the Lord
5. The Lord Is Alive

Pavel Chesnokov
6. Cherubim Hymn (from the 'Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom', Op.42)
7. Mother of God (concerto)
8. The Virtuous Thief
9. Save Your People, O Lord
10. Praise the Lord from the Heavens

Selections from 'Vespers':

11. Bless the Lord, O My Soul
12. Blessed Is the Man
13. Lord, Now Lettest Thou

Nikolai Golovanov
14. When You Have Descended, Op.37 No.9

Konstantin Shvedov
Fragments from the 'Liturgy of St John Chrysostom':
15. No.4 - O Come, Let Us Worship
16. No.5 - Lord, Save the Devout and Holy God
17. No.12 - Our Father
18. No.13 - Praise the Lord from the Heavens

Total playing time: 67:04

Vol.5: The Leningrad Composers from the Early 20th Century
Alexander Arkhangelsky
1. The Cross Is the Preserver of All the Universe
2. Blessed Are Those Who Understand
3. Inspier, Lord, My Prayer
4. I Dread the Fearful Day
5. I Have Cried to the Lord with My Voice
6. Not Having Any Other Help
7. Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me

Selections from 'Vespers':
8. No.1 - Bless the Lord, O My Soul
9. No.4 - Lord, Now Lettest Thou
10. No.7 - Praise the Name of the Lord
11. No.8 - Having Beheld the Resurrection of the Christ
12. No.10 - Greater Doxology

Total time: 66.51

Vol.6: Piotr Tchaikovsky - Sacred Choral Compositions
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1. The Angel Cried Out

Selections from the Nine Sacred Musical Compositions for Full Choir a Cappella:

2. No.1 - Cherubic Hymn
3. No.5 - It Is Truly Meet
4. No.9 - Now the Heavenly Hosts
5. No.7 - Blessed Are Those Whom Thou Closest

Selections from the 'Litury of St John Chrysostom', Op.41:
6. No.3 - O Come, Let Us Worship
7. No.6 - Cherubic Hymn
8. No.8 - The Creed
9. No.9 - The Mercy of Peace
10. No.13 - Our Father in Heaven
11. No.14 - Praise the Lord from the Heavens

Selections from 'Vespers', Op.52:
12. Bless the Lord, O My Soul (Greek chant)
13. Blessed Is the Man (Znamenny chant)
14. Peaceful Light
15. Praise the Name of the Lord (Greek chant)
16. Blessed Art Thou, O Lord
17. From My Youth Up
18. Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ
19. Glory to God in the Highest

Total time: 73.45

Vol.7: Sergei Rachmaninov - Sacred Choral Compositions
Sergei Rachmaninov
Sacred Choral Concerto 'The Theotokos, Ever-Vigilant in Prayer'
1. I. 'The Theotokos. Ever-Vigilant in Prayer'
2. II. 'Since You Gave Life...'
3. III. 'Enter the Womb'

Selections from the 'Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op.31':

4. Bless the Lord, O My Soul
5. Glory to the Father and the Only-Begotten Son
6. In Thy Kingdom
7. Lord, Save the Faithful and the Trisagion
8. Cherubic Hymn
9. The Creed
10. To Thee We Sing
11. Praise the Lord from the Heavens
12. Glory Be to the Father

Selections from 'Vespers', Op.37:

13. No.2 Bless the Lord, O My Soul (Greek chant)
14. No.3 Belessed Is the Man
15. No.4 Peaceful Light (Kiev chant)
16. No.5 Lord, Now Lettest Thou (Kiev chant)
17. No.6 Hail Mary, Full of Grace
18. No.7 Hexapsalmos
19. No.9 Blessed Art Thou, O Lord (Znamenny chant)
20. No.10 Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ

Total time: 77.23

Vol.8: Russian Sacred Music in the 20th Century
Georgy Sviridov
1. Prayer (from the music to the play 'Tsar Feodor Ioannovich' by A K Tolstoy)
2. Holy Love (from the music to the play 'Tsar Feodor Ioannovich' by A K Tolstoy)

Rodion Shchedrin
The Sealed Angel
(choral music set to the text of N S Leskov for mixed chorus a cappella with a reed pipe (flute)
3. I. The Angel of the Lord
4. II. Lo, the Lord Has Appeared to Us
5. III. Angels
6. VII. May My Prayer Improve
7. VIII. Hallowed Be Thy Name

Alfred Schnittke
Concerto for Mixed Chorus
(text by G Narekatsi, translated by N Grebnev)
8. I. O, Sovereign of All that Is

Total time: 62.07

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