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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.
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 ...
Russian sacred music occupies a special place in the performances of the collective. The variations on national melodies of peoples of the north have drawn great success and interest and were included in the choir's concert programs by Evgeniy Morozov.
Anyone who has played in an orchestra or ensemble or sung in a chorus is probably aware of the cost of sheet music, even though much of it hearkens back to pre-20th century and has long since ...
Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia is the first release in the Hearts of Space Records series 'Sacred Treasures'. The 1998 compilation album is composed of choral pieces from the Russian Orthodox Church .
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 ]
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]
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.