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Good selections but a thin, hyper sound by eledkovsky@hotmail.com
Posted on March 26, 2015 15:23
I love this series for its lofty aim of exposing the world to the emigration's development of Russian Orthodox music. The selections are interesting & worthy to be sung at divine services.
But hmm! Seems someone took liberties with Many Years (incorrectly attributed to my father). I don't recall him re-arranging his father's composition to have only female & then male voices sing the middle section. That's not part of the original (composed by Boris, not Alexander Ledkovsky); I'd be interested to know the real source of this "arrangirovka" which strikes me as the choir director's own "interpretation" (a practice I've seen a number of Soviet-trained choirmasters employ & one that I find distasteful as an affront to the composer). I also strongly dislike the frenetic tempi of Many Years & my grandfather's Beatitudes.
That said, this CD belongs in any serious collection, just because the selections are, without exception, so beautiful & worthy in & of themselves.
TRACK LISTING
| No. | Composer | Title | Sheet Music | Time | Buy | |
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1 | Johann Von Gardner | Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent | 04:54 | ||
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2 | Nikolai Kedroff Jr. | Cherubic Hymn | 05:25 | ||
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3 | Mikhail Konstantinov, arr. | Dogmatikon, Tone 2 | 02:03 | ||
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4 | Maxime Kovalevsky | Lord, Have Mercy At Exaltation Of The Cross | 01:56 | ||
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5 | Johann von Gardner, arr. | Small Doxology | 02:19 | ||
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6 | Alexander Chesnokov | Troparia Of The Resurrection "Blessed Art Thou O Lord" | 04:48 | ||
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7 | Johann von Gardner, arr. | Thou Art Most Blessed, O Virgin Theotokos | 00:57 | ||
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8 | Boris Ledkovsky | The Beatitudes | 01:33 | ||
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9 | Mikhail Konstantinov, arr. | O Come Let Us Worship | 01:06 | ||
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10 | Johann von Gardner, arr. | Trisagion | 02:10 | ||
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11 | Boris Ledkovsky | Cherubic Hymn | 04:38 | ||
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12 | Alexander Chesnokov | A Mercy Of Peace | 07:27 | ||
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13 | Shilyaev, arr., Archpriest Pavel | It Is Truly Meet | 02:14 | ||
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14 | Zhavoronkov, arr., A. | Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord | 00:45 | ||
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15 | Boris Ledkovsky | Many Years | 01:03 | ||
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16 | Johann Von Gardner | The Wise Thief | 01:56 | ||
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17 | Boris Ledkovsky, arr. | The Praises (Holy Saturday) | 12:01 | ||
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18 | Maxime Kovalevsky, arr. | Nativity Troparion, Tone 4 | 01:31 | ||
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19 | Maxime Kovalevsky, arr. | Nativity Kontakion, Tone 3 | 00:50 | ||
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20 | Boris Ledkovsky, arr. | Nativity Exapostilation | 01:13 | ||
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21 | Mikhail Konstantinov | The Angel Cried | 02:33 |
