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    1. Magnificat 3 / Nethsingha, St John’s College, Cambridge
    2. Magnificat 3 / Nethsingha, St John’s College, Cambridge
    Signum Classics

    Magnificat 3 / Nethsingha, St John’s College, Cambridge

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    Pavel Chesnokov, George Dyson, Herbert Howells, Bryan Kelly, Kenneth Leighton, Philip Moore, Charles
    Artist
    Thomas Butler, George Herbert, Joshua Davidson, Angus Crichton-Stuart, Lucas Nair-Grepinet, Alexande
    Released
    Mar 17, 2023

    Following their critically acclaimed ‘Psalms’ album, St John’s College, Cambridge and Andrew Nethsingha present a selection of Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis recordings from January and July 2022. Much of the third volume in their series of Evening Canticles focuses on music in a twenty-year period, from 1945 to 1965. Philip Moore’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis were commissioned especially for St John’s College, Cambridge.

    REVIEWS:

    It’s sad that Nethsingha’s departure means that the next volume will be the last. I can’t think of a greater or more apt epitaph to the music director’s time at St John’s.

    -- Gramophone (Editor's Choice, May 2023)

    These contrasting works, embracing solo writing and full-bodied, lavish textures, give the choir the chance to display their warm sound and versatility. They do, wholeheartedly.

    -- The Guardian (UK)

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  • Magnificat 3 / Nethsingha, St John’s College, Cambridge

    Magnificat 3 / Nethsingha, St John’s College, Cambridge

    Signum Classics Mar 2023
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    • Millenium - Russian Choral Music / J Reilly Lewis
    Centaur Records

    Millenium - Russian Choral Music / J Reilly Lewis

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    ARKHANGELSKY BORTNIANSKY CHE
    Artist
    Busching, Deutsch, Dobey, Mabbs, Tucker, Washington Cathedral Choral Society, Lewis
    Released
    Feb 01, 1986

    Includes work(s) by Baldassare Galuppi, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dimitri Bortniansky, Alexander Gretchaninov, Pavel Chesnokov, Alexander Nikolsky. Ensemble: National Cathedral Choral Society Washington, D.C.. Conductor: J. Reilly Lewis.

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  • Millenium - Russian Choral Music / J Reilly Lewis

    Millenium - Russian Choral Music / J Reilly Lewis

    Centaur Records Feb 1986
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    1. RACHMANINOV: LITURGY OF ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM OP.31
    2. RACHMANINOV: LITURGY OF ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM OP.31
    ALTO

    RACHMANINOV: LITURGY OF ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM OP.31

    CD · 1 disc

    $11.01
    Artist
    MOSCOW CHAMBER CHOIR
    Released
    Feb 26, 2021
    although the best-known Rachmaninov works are not uncharacteristic, they represent only one side of his musical personality. Some of his finest scores have nothing to do with the piano, or the orchestra, and ranking high among them are his two major religious pieces, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, and the Vespers... The culmination of 100 years of effort by Russian composers to fuse liturgical and art music. Certainly they were not unexpected for Rachmaninov, because the tones of Russian religious choirs - dark, rich, sonorous - haunted his inner ear as much as the sound of piano (Gramophone)
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  • RACHMANINOV: LITURGY OF ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM OP.31

    RACHMANINOV: LITURGY OF ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM OP.31

    ALTO Feb 2021
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.01
    • Serene Ecstasy - The Light & Sorrow Of Orthodox Russia
    Delos

    Serene Ecstasy - The Light & Sorrow Of Orthodox Russia

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    TCHAIKOVSKY CHESNOKOV KIKTA
    Artist
    Tchaikovsky, Chesnokov, Kikta, Schnittke
    Released
    Jan 01, 2000
    The Spiritual Revival Choir of Moscow was created in 1992, at the end of the Soviet era, a time when religious freedom was once again permitted in Russia. The choir's repertoire includes music of the renaissance, baroque, classical and romantic periods, as well as music by contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke. 'Serene Ecstasy' features the choir in sacred music by Russian composers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
    The choir opens the program with "The Russian Soil," a hymn dedicated to Russian saints that is memorable for its rhythmic drive and exalted tone. Two sacred pieces by Tchaikovsky are marked by drama and, in "Eucharist" from the 'Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom,' a sense of joy. The group's lush tonal quality is ideal in Ippolitov-Ivanov's pacific "Praise the Lord, O My Soul."
    This recording consistently impresses with its excellent singing and fascinating repertoire; surely it's an ideal recording for all lovers of sacred music.
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  • Serene Ecstasy - The Light & Sorrow Of Orthodox Russia

    Serene Ecstasy - The Light & Sorrow Of Orthodox Russia

    Delos Jan 2000
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • Christmas in Brass / Gabriel V Brass Ensemble
    Gloriae Dei Cantores

    Christmas in Brass / Gabriel V Brass Ensemble

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    BACH CHESNOKOV DILORENZO LA
    Artist
    David Chalmers
    Released
    Apr 01, 2012

    Nothing heralds the majesty of Christmastime quite like the brilliance and radiant beauty of music for brass instruments. On this remastered reissue of a classic holiday favorite, the Gabriel V Brass Ensemble presents a special collection of music for Christmas written by a variety of masters of the genre including Rolf Smedvig, Anthony DiLorenzo, Morten Lauridsen and William Berry. From the overflow of joy in J.S. Bach's Wie will ich mich freuen to the cinematic soundscape of DiLorenzo's Baltazar (A King's Journey) to the rosy-cheeked romp of Leroy Andersen's Sleigh Ride, each piece adds new luster to your celebration of this glorious season.

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  • Christmas in Brass / Gabriel V Brass Ensemble

    Christmas in Brass / Gabriel V Brass Ensemble

    Gloriae Dei Cantores Apr 2012
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
  • Postcards / Timothy Seelig, The Turtle Creek Chorale

    Postcards / Timothy Seelig, The Turtle Creek Chorale

    Reference Recordings Jan 1995
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    1. Russian Choral Concertos - An Introduction
    2. Russian Choral Concertos - An Introduction
    Fuga Libera

    Russian Choral Concertos - An Introduction

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Andrei Petrenko
    Released
    May 24, 2024

    The polyphonic choral concerto performed a cappella first appeared in Russian music at the beginning of the 18th century. Sacred in origin, it began as a multimovement setting of liturgical texts. Although it later became more secular in character, it nonetheless retained an elevated nature thanks to its use of Christian imagery. Most of the composers who worked in this genre were choirmasters and conductors, and inherited the traditions of the oldest professional choirs in Russia: the Moscow Synodal Choir and the Saint Petersburg Court Chapel.

    The Golden Age of the Russian choral concerto came with the works of Dmitry Bortnyansky and Stepan Degtyarev during the reign of Catherine the Great. The genre took a new turn at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, thanks to the efforts of Pavel Chesnokov, Sergei Rachmaninov and Alexander Arkhangelsky. Composers during the later 20th century had greater freedom to choose their poetic texts and to modify the form of the genre: they could make use of secular themes, as did Georgy Sviridov in Pushkin’s Garland, or follow the spiritual and philosophical path of the genre, as we see in Valery Gavrilin’s Chimes.

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  • Russian Choral Concertos - An Introduction

    Russian Choral Concertos - An Introduction

    Fuga Libera May 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS IN CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS

    RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS IN CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS

    NORTHERN FLOWERS Sep 2016
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.36
  • With Heart & Voice / Brian Jones, Ross Wood, Trinity Choir

    With Heart & Voice / Brian Jones, Ross Wood, Trinity Choir

    Gothic Jan 2009
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    1. Russian Orthodox Choral Music
    2. Russian Orthodox Choral Music
    Brilliant Classics

    Russian Orthodox Choral Music

    CD · 6 discs

    $33.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Jan 22, 2021
    During the past century Russian Orthodox vocal music has experienced two periods of rebirth. The first, which began in the last years of the 19th century, consisted of a return to the popular sources of religious chant in the znamenny chant tradition passed down from its origins in ancient Byzantine chant and maintained by churches and choirs across Russia until the 17th century, when rulers such as Catherine the Great began to look westwards for cultural identity. Composers such as Kastalsky, Chesnokov and Grechaninov repudiated the Italian and French influences which had shaped the work of Classical and Romantic-era composers such as the Sacred Concertos of Bortniansky. repudiated the Italian and French influences which had shaped the work of Classical and Romantic-era composers such as the Sacred Concertos of Bortniansky. This renaissance was foreshadowed by Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in 1878 – in its time a controversial work, rejected by the Church – and reached its zenith with the two sacred cycles by Rachmaninoff: another setting of the Liturgy and then his religious masterpiece, the Vespers (All Night Vigil) of 1915. Once more suppressed by the 1917 Revolution, an authentic strain of Russian sacred music had to wait until the era of glasnost in the late 1980s and early 90s Rybin Male Choir could once more be formed to sing and record the repertoire that is their country’s musical inheritance, and most of these recordings date from the early 90s, first released on the ‘Saison Russe’ imprint for its renewal. Ensembles such as the of the Chant du Monde label, long unavailable and now reissued here for the first time.
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    Russian Orthodox Choral Music

    Brilliant Classics Jan 2021
    6 discs
    CD
    $33.99