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Russian Liturgical Music is the musical tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. This tradition began with the importation of the Byzantine Empire's religious music when the Kievan Rus' converted to Orthodoxy in 988.
The USSR State Chamber Choir: 7:41: 13. "Hymn of the Cherubim (Excerpt/Edited) by Dobri Hristov" "Svetoslav Obretenov" Bulgarian National Choir: 6:41: 14. "Our Father: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky" The USSR State Chamber Choir: 3:34: 15. "I Have Chosen the Blissful by Alexander Gretchaninov" Bulgarian Radio and ...
Dmitry Bortniansky (1751–1825) was the most prolific composer of choral concertos.. The choral concerto (Russian: хоровой концерт, romanized: khorovoy kontsert, Ukrainian: Хоровий концерт, romanized: khoroviy kontsert), occasionally known as vocal concerto [citation needed] or church concerto [citation needed]) is a genre of sacred music which arose in the Russian ...
Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Георгий Васильевич Свиридов [n 1]; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian composer.He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influenced by the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as his orchestral works which often celebrate elements of Russian culture.
However the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of the Soviet Union led to the government condemnation of religious music, [9] and on 22 July 1918 the Synodal Choir was replaced by a non-religious "People's Choir Academy". [10] It has been written that "no composition represents the end of an era so clearly as this liturgical work". [11]
Kanon Pokajanen is a 1997 composition by Arvo Pärt for four-part choir.The text is the "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ", an Orthodox hymn.The text is sung in Church Slavonic and following the tradition of Russian sacred choral music, it is sung a cappella.
Tchaikovsky's setting of the Divine Liturgy, along with his All-Night Vigil and his nine sacred songs, were of seminal importance in the later interest in Orthodox music. [ 8 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Other composers, encouraged by the freedom created by the new lack of restriction on sacred music, soon followed Tchaikovsky's example. [ 9 ]
There he founded a choral conducting program, which he taught from 1920 until his death. By the age of 30, Chesnokov had completed nearly four hundred sacred choral works, but his proliferation of church music came to a standstill at the time of the Russian revolution. Under communist rule, no one was permitted to produce any form of sacred art.