Rachmaninov: Vespers

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Rachmaninov’s work was first performed to help the Russian war effort in 1915 and it has an intriguingly bracing air in this new interpretation, which won’t be to every taste but which scores... — Choir & Organ, March 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: DUX1404
Label: Dux
Length: 55 minutes

Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37

Work length55:02

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Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo-soprano), Rafał Bartmiński (tenor), Krzysztof Drugow (bass)
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir, Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Violetta Bielecka
Recorded: 4–8 May 2017
Recording Venue: Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic, European Art Centre, Białystok, Poland

All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 1, O Come, Let Us Worship

Track length2:25

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 2, Praise the Lord, O My Soul

Track length6:24

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 3, Blessed Is the Man

Track length4:27

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 4, Gladsome Light

Track length2:49

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 5, Nunc Dimittis

Track length3:21

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 6, Ave Maria

Track length2:45

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 7, Glory Be to God

Track length2:44

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 8, Praise Be the Name of the Lord

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 9, Blessed Be the Lord

Track length6:00

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 10, The Veneration of the Cross

Track length3:17

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 11, Magnificat

Track length6:12

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 12, Gloria in Excelsis

Track length6:18

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 13, The Day of Salvation

Track length1:53

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 14, Christ Is Risen

Track length3:05

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All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers": No. 15, The the Mother of God

Track length1:22

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Vespers – a cycle of religious services celebrated by the followers of the Orthodox Church on the eve of all feasts and each Little Pascha - i.e. Sunday. Vechernya, povecherye and utrenya are celebrated from evening to dawn. Among numerous composers who have developed the text of Vespers, it is Sergey Rachmaninoff that stands out due to the mastery of form. Carefully selected sounds of discreetly modern harmony render the acoustics of an Eastern Orthodox temple. Changes of cast (from three to eleven voices) and polychorality depict a sui generis theatrical nature of Orthodox church ceremonies whose action evolves on a few levels, in different space points of the temple. It is particularly the sonorous, crystalline registers of female voices that contrast and perfectly combine with the male voices, among which the basso profondo basses, rarely found in the Western culture, have a profound meaning. The Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir, also due to its artistic level, guarantees the highest performance level of this kind of music in Poland.

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March 2019

Rachmaninov’s work was first performed to help the Russian war effort in 1915 and it has an intriguingly bracing air in this new interpretation, which won’t be to every taste but which scores high for bright, accurate singing (full marks to the soloists) and sympathetic accompaniment.

July 2018

The dramatic momentum never lets up, and this is an extremely important element in any performance of this work: it is all too easy to emphasise the importance of individual sections at the expense of the sense of the whole, and this Bielecka and her singers are careful never to do.

Rachmaninov: Vespers

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