Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

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RACHMANINOFF, Sergei Vasil’yevich (b. 20 March [1 April] 1873, the estate of Oneg (Semyonovo?), in today’s Novgorod region of the Novgorod district; d. 28 March 1943, Beverly Hills, California) — from 1882 studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, then in 1885 transferred to the Moscow Conservatory from which he graduated in piano (1891) and composition (1892); studied with Alexander Ziloti, Anton Arensky, and Sergei Taneyev. Renowned as a pianist, composer, and conductor. Although Rachmaninoff’s compositional activity was devoted primarily to secular music (operas, symphonies, chamber works, piano works, romances, choruses with piano, et al.), his sacred choral works — the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, opus 31, and the All-Night Vigil, opus 37 — stand as major masterpieces in the Russian church music literature. One other sacred work, the sacred concerto “V molitvah neusïpayushchuyu Bogoroditsu” [“The Theotokos, ever-vigilant in prayer”], which was written in his youth and remained unpublished during his lifetime, also stands out among the works of contemporaries by its artistic design and intensity of expression. All of Rachmaninoff’s sacred works are marked by highly individualistic religious emotionalism and a complexity of musical technique (texture, sonority, dynamics, etc.)

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Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

Conductor: Peter Jermihov

Label: Paraclete Press

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Performers: USSR Academic Russian Choir

Conductor: A. Sveshnikov

Label: Melodia/Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery

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Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil ('Vespers')

Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Mixed

Language: Church Slavonic

No. of titles: 15

No. of pages: 124

Cat. No: Ra-ANV

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Liturgiya Sv. Ioanna Zlatousta

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Mixed

Language: Church Slavonic

No. of titles: 20

No. of pages: 174

Cat. No: Ra-DL

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Six Choral Songs (Six Choruses) (with Russian and English text)

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Women’s/Treble

Language: English, Russian

No. of titles: 6

No. of pages: 36

Cat. No: Ra6Ch

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Sergei Rachmaninoff The Bells

Kolokola

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Mixed (with orch.)

Language: Russian

No. of pages: 88

Cat. No: CP-TB

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Sergei Rachmaninoff To Thee, the Victorious Leader

Vzbrannoy voyevode

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Arrangement of: Russian “Greek” Chant

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra037

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Virgin Mother of God, Rejoice

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB

Language: English

Cat. No: OMP-Ra028E

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Sergei Rachmaninoff We Hymn Thee

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB, S solo

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra014

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CD track: Blessed Art Thou, O Lord

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Today All Nations Beheld Glorious Things; Selected Hymns from Vigil, Liturgy, and Feasts

Performers: Choir of Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery

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CD track: Gentle Light

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

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CD track: Gladsome Light

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

Performers: USSR Academic Russian Choir

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CD track: Lord, Now Lettest Thou...

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Russian Religious Hymns; Recordings from the 1940s-1950s

Performers: Ivan Semyenovich Kozlovsky, Tenor

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CD track: Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Today All Nations Beheld Glorious Things; Selected Hymns from Vigil, Liturgy, and Feasts

Performers: Choir of Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery

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CD track: Lord, Now Lettest Thou

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

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CD track: Now Lettest Thou

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

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CD track: The Mother of God, ever-vigilant in prayer

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Triumph of Russian Orthodoxy; Hymns from the Prayer Service

Performers: Choir of the Church of "Joy of All Sorrowful" Icon - Moscow

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CD track: Hail, O Virgin Mother Of God

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

Performers: USSR Academic Russian Choir

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CD track: Rejoice, Virgin

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

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