FULL ALL-NIGHT VIGIL (Rachmaninov) St.Petersburg 2025 Daria Leibova, Oleg Trofimov, Vladimir Miller, Vadim Silenok
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: All-Night Vigil or Russian Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye
- Composer: Rachmaninov Sergei
- Libretto: texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony
- Venue & Opera Company: Chapel of St.Petersburg
- Recorded: January 15, 2025
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Daria Leibova, Oleg Trofimov, Vladimir Miller, Vadim Silenok
- Conductor: NIKOLAI KURBATOV
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: St. Petersburg State Academic Capella
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Chapel of Saint Petersburg
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: vk FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
On January 15, the Chapel will perform the All-Night Vigil, one of the greatest and most famous works in the heritage of Russian sacred music. The performance of the All-Night Vigil by the Singing Chapel is close to ideal, and the recording of this work in 1982 by the Leningrad Academic Glinka Chapel under the direction of Vladislav Chernushenko became a truly historic event.
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil is considered the crowning achievement of the “golden age” of Russian sacred music. This period, which began in the 1880s and lasted until the Bolsheviks came to power, was an era in which prominent Russian composers, from Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov to Chesnokov and Grechaninov, turned to Orthodox church music and liturgical texts. Rachmaninoff began work on All-Night Vigil in late 1914, in the midst of World War I.
Based on the old Znamenny chant, Rachmaninoff created his own original themes. The first performance of the All-Night Vigil took place on March 10 (23), 1915, in a concert of the Moscow Synodal Choir under the direction of Nikolai Danilin, a close friend and classmate of Rachmaninoff. Despite its extraordinary success, the subsequent fate of the All-Night Vigil was not easy. As a church composition, it was not included in liturgical practice and remained mainly on the concert stage. After the revolution, Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil was banned for many decades.