Placeholder text

Go to cart

Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil

Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil

0 - Default Title
Description
Sergei Rachmaninov composed the All-Night Vigil in 1915, one of three sacred Slavonic choral works he composed in the span from 1893-1915, during the height of the New Russian Choral School and during Rachmaninov's most active compositional period. The All-Night Vigil, perhaps the crowning achievement in Russian choral music, is comprised of texts for the services of Vespers, Matins and Prime and was probably intended for concert performance rather than for liturgical use. The composition is sometimes more popularly referred to as Rachmaninov's Vespers, but that label is inaccurate when the complete texts of the All-Night Vigil are included. Using authentic Russian chant melodies as the compositional base for nine of the fifteen movements, he composed melodies to sound like chant for the other six.
Product details
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out