LENOX — For decades after the Bolshevik Revolution, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s reinvention of sacred music from the Russian Orthodox Church went unheard. Tchaikovsky’s composition was a departure from ...
Finally this hour, some music that shows a very different side of composer Sergei Rachmaninov. He's best known for his romantic and virtuosic piano concertos. Well, All Night Vigil is a choral work ...
Lyra, a vocal ensemble from St. Petersburg, Russia, returns to Winona for the sixth time Thursday for a free 7 p.m. concert at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. The singers will present a program of ...
A casual listener might be forgiven for mistaking a rumbling sepulchral bass intoning the Old Church Slavonic of the Russian Orthodox liturgy for the voice of God himself. That bass voice, along with ...
All-Night Vigil of the Russian Orthodox Church, “Vespers”, set by Sergey Rachmaninoff Performed by Romsey Choral Society at ...