FULL All Night Vigil (Rachmaninov) St.Petersburg 2023 Singing Capella St.Petersburg
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: All Night Vigil or Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye or Всенощное бдение
- Composer: Rachmaninov Sergei
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Capella of St.Petersburg, Russia
- Recorded: March 31, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Daria Leybova, Oleg Trofimov, Vladimir Miller, Sergey Berdyshev, Oleg Radchenko
- Conductor: Vladislav CHERNUSHENKO
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Singing Capella St.Petersburg
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Capella St.Petersburg
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Wikipedia:
The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninov, his Op. 37, premiered on 23 March 1915 in Moscow.
The piece 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 Rachmaninov’s two favorite compositions[3] along with The Bells, and the composer requested that its fifth movement (Нынѣ отпущаеши, Nunc dimittis) be sung at his funeral.
The title of the work is often mis-translated as Vespers. This 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.