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Russian composers of sacred music are known for writing richly harmonized chant-based works much more than for employing fugal or other imitative contrapuntal techniques. In his sacred concerto “It Is a Good Thing” Constantine Shvedoff (1886-1954) does both. Between the richly scored homophony of the beginning and ending, he constructs one of the rare fugues in all of Russian sacred choral literature, employing a theme that finds its roots in the ancient znamenny chant of the Russian church. A remarkable blending of “East” and ”West”!
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