Vespers

Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & The Choral Arts Society of Washington & Maureen Forrester & Gene Tucker & Mstislav Rostropovich

All-Night Vigil (commonly known as Vespers) is a choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninov, composed in 1915. The work sets Russian Orthodox liturgical texts for unaccompanied choir, combining chant-derived melodies, lush late-Romantic harmonies and prominent low bass writing, and it represents a culminating point in Rachmaninov's liturgical choral output while reflecting broader currents in Russian sacred choral practice in the early 20th century.
First released: 1987

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Vespers, op. 37: Come, Let Us Worship
    2:37
  2. 2.
    Vespers, op. 37: Praise the Lord, O My Soul
    4:58
  3. 3.
    Vespers, op. 37: Blessed Is the Man
    4:26
  4. 4.
    Vespers, op. 37: O Gladsome Light
    3:18
  5. 5.
    Vespers, op. 37: Simeon's Song
    3:25
  6. 6.
    Vespers, op. 37: Ave Maria
    3:34
  7. 7.
    Vespers, op. 37: The Short Gloria
    2:23
  8. 8.
    Vespers, op. 37: Laudate Dominum
    2:38
  9. 9.
    Vespers, op. 37: The Story of the Resurrection
    6:17
  10. 10.
    Vespers, op. 37: Hymn of the Resurrection
    3:32
  11. 11.
    Vespers, op. 37: Magnificat
    6:59
  12. 12.
    Vespers, op. 37: The Greater Gloria
    6:08
  13. 13.
    Vespers, op. 37: The Day of Salvation
    1:59
  14. 14.
    Vespers, Op. 37: When Thou Hadst Arisen From the Tomb
    3:33
  15. 15.
    Vespers, Op. 37: Hymn to the Mother of God
    1:40

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