All-Night Vigil

Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Koris "Gaudeamus" & Ivars Cinkuss

All-Night Vigil is a choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1915. Scored for unaccompanied choir and based on Russian Orthodox liturgical texts, it employs deep bass sonorities, modal harmonies and expansive late-Romantic choral textures, representing Rachmaninoff's mature approach to liturgical composition and an important work in the Russian choral tradition.

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  1. 1.
    Call to Worship
    2:05
  2. 2.
    Bless the Lord (Greek Chant)
    4:26
  3. 3.
    Blessed Is the Man
    5:02
  4. 4.
    O Gladsome Light (Kiev Chant)
    2:45
  5. 5.
    Nunc Dimittis (Kiev Chant)
    3:13
  6. 6.
    Ave Maria
    3:03
  7. 7.
    The Short Gloria (Hexapsalmos)
    2:20
  8. 8.
    Introduction to "The Six Psalms" (Znamennïy Chant)
    2:15
  9. 9.
    The Story of the Resurrection (Znamennïy Chant)
    6:37
  10. 10.
    Hymn of the Resurrection
    2:52
  11. 11.
    Magnificat
    7:39
  12. 12.
    The Greater Gloria (Znamennïy Chant)
    8:03
  13. 13.
    Troparion. Today Hath Salvation Come (Znamennïy Chant)
    1:56
  14. 14.
    Hymn to the Mother of God (Greek Chant)
    1:44

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