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Valentin Silvestrov - Sacred Songs | ECM New Series 4764990

Valentin Silvestrov - Sacred Songs

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4764990

Barcode: 0028947649908

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 24th September 2012

Contents

About

Since 2001, ECM has enthusiastically championed the art of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov with recordings of his orchestral, chamber and vocal works - creations that stand as some of the most arresting and moving in contemporary music. This continues in Silvestrov’s 75th birthday year with 'Sacred Songs', the seventh album ECM has devoted wholly to the composer’s music, which collects sets of songs, refrains, psalms and prayers written between 2006 and 2008 that reflect the composer’s late-blooming interest in writing for voices.

Previous choral releases of Silvestrov on the label were the Requiem for Larissa in memory of the composer’s wife (4721122) and the unaccompanied Sacred Works (4763316). Like the latter album, Sacred Songs features the utterly attuned, even other-worldly performances of Ukraine’s Kiev Chamber Choir under the direction of co-founder Mykola Hobdych, with the recordings made in the resounding air of St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, an ancient building recently reconstructed, the acoustic of which is almost a joint performer with the choir.

Track Listing:
Songs for Vespers
(2006)
1. Come, Let us Worship
2. World of Peace
3. Holy God
4. O Virgin Mother of God
5. Today You Release (Your Servant)
6. Many Years (Vivat)
7. Silent Night
Psalms and Prayers (2007)
8. Praise God All Ye Nations (Psalm 116)
9. Lord, my Heart Swells not with Pride (Psalm 130)
10. Lord Jesus Christ
11. Blessed Is He (Psalm 1)
12. O King of Heaven
13. With the Saints Grant Eternal Peace
14. Our Father
Two Psalms of David (2007)
15. To You, o Lord, I Call (Psalm 27)
16. The Lord Is my Shepherd (Psalm 22)
Two Spiritual Refrains (2008)
17. Do not Forsake me
18. Alleluia
Two Spiritual Songs (2007)
19. Cherubic Hymn
20. Many Years (Vivat)
Three Spiritual Songs (2006)
21. Cherubic Hymn
22. Many Years (Vivat)
23. Alleluia

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