Vespers
Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Raissa Palmu & Erja Wimeri & Eugen Antoni & Suomen Kansallisoopperan kuoro & Eric-Olof Söderström
Vespers (All-Night Vigil) is a choral composition by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov, completed in 1915. It draws on Russian Orthodox liturgical chant and features rich, low-register choral writing, dense, resonant harmonies and expansive textures, marking a late-Romantic culmination in Rachmaninov's sacred output and securing its place in the Russian choral repertoire.
First released: September 2004
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- 1.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Come, Let Us Worship1:40
- 2.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Bless the Lord, O My Soul5:57
- 3.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Blessed Is the Man3:56
- 4.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Gladsome Light2:40
- 5.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Canticle of Simeon3:28
- 6.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Troparion for the Virgin Mary3:25
- 7.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Intonation to the Hexapsalm2:15
- 8.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Polyeleopsalm1:55
- 9.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Troparia of the Resurrection5:17
- 10.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Having Beheld the Resurrection2:56
- 11.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Hymn of Thanksgiving to the Mother of God6:21
- 12.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: The Great Doxology7:29
- 13.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Troparion of the Resurrection I1:53
- 14.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Troparion of the Resurrection II3:07
- 15.All-Night Vigil, op. 37: Kontakion for the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary1:28
