Russian Choral Concertos - An Introduction

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Label
Fuga Libera
Release Date
May 24, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Andrei Petrenko
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 24, 2024
    • UPC
      5400439008281
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FUG828
    • LABEL
      Fuga Libera
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Dnes Christos v Vifleeme Razhdayetsya (Today Christ is born in Bethlehem)

      Composer: Stepan Degtyarev

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    2. Sacred Concerto No. 34, "Da voskresnet Boh" (Let God arise)

      Composer: Dmytro Stepanovych Bortniansky

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    3. Pomishliayu den' strashniy (I Ponder Upon the Fearful Day)

      Composer: Alexander Arkhangelsky

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    4. V molitvakh neusipayushchuyu bogoroditsu (In our Prayers, Ever-vigilant Mother of God)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    5. Angel vopiyashe (The Angel Cried Out), Op. 22, No. 18

      Composer: Pavel Chesnokov

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Albina Shaikhiyeva

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    6. Blazhen muzh (Blessed is the Man), Op. 44, No. 2

      Composer: Pavel Chesnokov

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Alexey Frolov

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    7. S Nami Bog (God Is with Us), Op. 40, No. 6

      Composer: Pavel Chesnokov

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Victor Galler

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    8. Perezvonï (Chimes): No. 16. Bely-bely snegi (White-White Snow)

      Composer: Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Maxim Sinyayev

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    9. No. 10. Strekotunja, balabolka (The White-Fanged Magpie)

      Composer: Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Klavdia Bashkirtseva, Elena Galushko, Elena Rychkova

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

    10. No. 7. Zorju bjut (Reveille is Sounded)

      Composer: Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov

      Ensemble: Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Maria Romina, Ekaterina Nazarova, Alexey Frolov

      Conductor: Andrei Petrenko


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.