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Russian Orthodox Christmas

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9161

Barcode: 5029365916127

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 23rd November 2009

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Contents

Artists

Don Cossack Choir

Conductor

Serge Jaroff

Artists

Don Cossack Choir

Conductor

Serge Jaroff

About

After the devastating defeat of the Cossacks by the Red Army in 1917, many of the surviving Cossacks ended up in the Diaspora. In 1921, in an internment camp near Constantinople, Serge Jaroff set about forming a choir. Little did he, or anyone, foresee that the choir that was formed in the cholera-infested camp would become a major international musical fixture.

A complicated period saw Jaroff ’s choir move to the Greek island of Lemnos, where they started giving open-air concerts that were particularly popular with the British, and later to Sofia where they performed in the city’s cathedral. After that, money troubles saw the choir trapped in Vienna, and it was the League of Nations that eventually helped them out, putting them in touch with a concert agent in Vienna. From then on they rocketed to stardom, giving over 10,000 concerts.

Nicolai Gedda was a regular performer with the choir. Jaroff ’s choir, which has always consisted of Russian refugees or Russians who have settled in the West, has been imitated many times but to this day it has never been rivalled.

In keeping with Jaroff ’s concerts, which comprised church music followed by songs, the programme on this CD begins by celebrating Christmas and Easter with traditional Russian Orthodox liturgy, hymns and Ukranian carols. This is followed by sacred and secular songs, including folk songs and music by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Contents:
Christmas
1. Troparion for the Nativity of Christ:Thy Nativity o Christ our God (Tone 4)
2. Kondakion for the Nativity of Christ:Today the Virgin Gives Birth (D. Bortniansky)
3. The Magnification:We Magnify Thee, o Lifegiven Christ
4. God is with us (A. Kastalsky / Soloist: G. Chandrovsky)
5. Hymn: Magnify, o my Soul
6. The Nativity Canon: Christ is Born (Heirmoses of the 1st Ode)
7. Ukrainian Carol 1: Heaven and Earth (Soloists: L. Lugo-Lugovsky, M. Olchovyi)
8. Ukrainian Carol 2: In Jerusalem (N. Gogotzky / Soloists: M. Bayanoff, A. Levchenko,W. Magnushevsky)
9. Ukrainian Carol 3: Shtchedrivka (A. Leonovitch)

Pre-Easter
10. The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete: He is my Helper and Protector (Heirmoses of the 1st, the 6th and the 9th Ode / D. Bortniansky)
11. Exapostilarion: I see Thy Bridal Chamber, o my Savior (D. Bortniansky)
12. Troparion: Behold the Bridegroom Comes (Kievan chant,Tone 8 / Soloist: B. Morozoff)
13. Burial – Trisagion (common chant)
14. Troparion: Noble Joseph (Bulgarian chant,Tone 2)
15. Hymn for Holy Thursday: Of Thy Mystical Supper (A. Lvov / Soloist: M. Bayanoff)
16. The Canon of Holy Saturday (Heirmoses of the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 9th Ode / znamenny chant,Tone 6)

Other songs
17. The Lord’s Prayer (N. Kedroff)
18. The Sailors (Vilboa – arr. Schvedoff / Soloists: N. Naneff, A Levchenko)
19. On Saturday and Round Dance (Folksongs – arr. Dobrovein / Soloists: N. Naneff D. Sablinsky)
20. A Hazel Tree and Russian Polka (Folksongs – arr. Dobrovein / Soloist: D. Sablinsky)
21. Holy God (P.Tchaikovsky / Trisagion. Diakon:W. Magnuschevsky)
22. Twelve Robbers (Folksong – arr. Jaroff / Soloist: M. Bayanoff)
23. Song of the Indian Guest, from “Sadko” (Rimsky-Korsakov – arr. Jaroff / Soloist: N. Naneff)
24. Blessed Art Thou, O Lord (Matins – arr. P. Tchaikovsky)

Total time 79:23

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