Sergei Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil – Op. 37
Radio Television of Serbia – Choir
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Conductor: Bojan Suđić
Soloists: Magda Skračić, soprano Žak Radison, tenor
The All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written and premiered in 1915. It consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony. It has been praised as Rachmaninoff’s finest achievement and “the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church”. It was one of Rachmaninoff’s two favorite compositions along with The Bells, and the composer requested that one of its movements (the fifth) be sung at his funeral. The title of the work is often translated as simply Vespers, which is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work: only the first six of its fifteen movements set texts from the Russian Orthodox canonical hour of Vespers.
Sergei Rachamninoff- All Night Vigil- Op. 37
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