Rachmaninov: Vespers
Netherlands Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
[the choir] is clearly a highly flexible instrument...Rachmaninov places great demands on even the most skilled singers...challenges which the Dutch singers pass with audible ease...The brief...
Rachmaninov: Vespers
Netherlands Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
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[the choir] is clearly a highly flexible instrument...Rachmaninov places great demands on even the most skilled singers...challenges which the Dutch singers pass with audible ease...The brief...
About
All-Night Vigil has been recognised as a supreme achievement in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. Together with the choral symphony The Bells, it is one of Rachmaninov’s favourite compositions.
As a coupling the Netherlands Radio Choir have chosen to record one of Rachmaninov's earliest works, composed in 1893 and unpublished in his lifetime. The Theotokos, Ever-Vigilant in Prayer is a hymn to the Virgin – ‘the one who gives birth to God’ – and clearly aims to exploit the skill of a first-class choir, with its varied textures, tempos and wide range of dynamics.
Contents and tracklist
Work length51:51
- Matthew Minter, Gert-Jan Alders, Pierrette de Zwaan, Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson
- Netherlands Radio Choir
- Kaspars Putniņš
Beginning Song. Come Let Us Worship
Track length2:43
Psalm 103 (104), "O Praise the Lord"
Track length4:07
Blessed Is the Man
Track length4:11
O Joyful Light
Track length2:48
Song of Simeon. Lord, Now Let Your Servant Depart
Track length3:26
Hail, O Virgin Mother (Ave Maria)
Track length2:57
Hexapsalms. Glory to God on High
Track length2:11
Psalm 134-135 (135-136), "O Praise the Name of the Lord"
Track length2:08
Glorifying Song of the Resurrection. Teach Me O Lord in the Way of Truth
Track length5:58
Hymn of Resurrection. We Have Seen the Resurrection
Track length2:32
Magnificat. My Soul Proclaims the Greatness of the Lord
Track length6:23
Great Doxology. Glory Be to God on High
Track length6:20
Resurrection Hymn (Troparion). This Day of Salvation Has Come to the World
Track length1:41
Resurrection Hymn (Troparion). When You Had Risen
Track length2:49
Thanksgiving Hymn of Virgin Mary. O Victorious Leader
Track length1:37
Rachmaninoff:
V molitvakh neusipayushchuyu bogoroditsu (In Our Prayers, Ever-Vigilant Mother of God)
Work length8:23
Awards and reviews
July 2014
[the choir] is clearly a highly flexible instrument...Rachmaninov places great demands on even the most skilled singers...challenges which the Dutch singers pass with audible ease...The brief solos are full of supplication, rich and varied in tone.
