Russia's Most Beautiful Songs

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Label
ARC Music
Release Date
January 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TRADITIONAL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Optina Pustyn Male Choir ? St. Petersburg
    • PERFORMER
      OPTINA PUSTYN MALE CHOIR ? ST. PETERSBURG
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2017
    • UPC
      5019396269323
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      EUCD2693
    • LABEL
      ARC Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      World & International
    Works ⌄

    1. On Flute I Play My Sad Verses

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    2. Vivat Suite

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    3. Saintly Love

      Composer: Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    4. This Is Not a White Birch

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    5. Hey, You, Wide Steppe

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    6. The Little Cuckoo

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    7. The Winter Road, Op. 42 No. 2

      Composer: Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    8. The Waves Are Sleepy

      Composer: César Cui

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    9. My Lovely Rowan Tree

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    10. The Volga Boat Men

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    11. The Legend of the Twelve Robbers

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    12. Steppe, Endless Steppe

      Composer: S. Sadovsky

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    13. The Lovely Night

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    14. In a Dark Wood

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    15. The Little Bell

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    16. Dignity

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir

    17. Song of Cherubs No. 7

      Composer: Dmytro Stepanovych Bortniansky

      Ensemble: St. Petersburg Optina Pustyn Male Choir


The male choir of the Optina Pustyn Monastery Department in St. Petersburg was established in 1996 with the blessing of its Father Superior, Hieromonach Rostislav. The choir consists of between six and nine professional singers, who are all graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. The main goal for the formation of the choir was the cultivation of the heritage of the old Russian Church singing, its sources, and different styles. The repertoire of the choir, however, reaches beyond the purely ancient repertoire and represents the great riches and variety of the Russian clerical as well as secular choral art. After two decades of creative activity, the choir has become a permanent participant in many Russian and international festivals, playing up to a hundred concerts a year.