Thursday, January 1, 2015

New Year's Day Gift

Here’s my gift for you on New Year’s Day.  

You should sit in the dark, have a nice bottle of wine or Russian Vodka, and let the music wash over you.


Sergey Rachmaninov - Vespers. Mass for mixed choir, Op 37
Valery Polyansky, conductor

Recorded live at the Smolensk Cathedral

1. O Come and Worship 
2. Praise the Lord, O My Soul (Greek Chant)
3. Blessed is the Man 
4. Joyful Light (Kiev Chant) 
5. Now Lettest Thou Depart (Kiev Chant) 
6. Hail Mary 
7. Hexapsalmos / O Praise Our God (Znamenny Chant) 
8. Blessed be the Lord (Znamenny Chant) 
9. Christ's Resurrection
10. My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord 
11. Greater Doxology (Znamenny Chant) 
12. This Day of Salvation (Troparion, Znamenny Chant) / Christ is Risen from the Dead (Troparion) / Thanksgiving to the Mother of God


Sergey Rachmaninov
Vespers (All-Night Vigil), for alto, tenor & chorus, Op. 37


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