Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

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RACHMANINOFF, Sergei Vasil’yevich (b. 20 March [1 April] 1873, the estate of Oneg (Semyonovo?), in today’s Novgorod region of the Novgorod district; d. 28 March 1943, Beverly Hills, California) — from 1882 studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, then in 1885 transferred to the Moscow Conservatory from which he graduated in piano (1891) and composition (1892); studied with Alexander Ziloti, Anton Arensky, and Sergei Taneyev. Renowned as a pianist, composer, and conductor. Although Rachmaninoff’s compositional activity was devoted primarily to secular music (operas, symphonies, chamber works, piano works, romances, choruses with piano, et al.), his sacred choral works — the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, opus 31, and the All-Night Vigil, opus 37 — stand as major masterpieces in the Russian church music literature. One other sacred work, the sacred concerto “V molitvah neusïpayushchuyu Bogoroditsu” [“The Theotokos, ever-vigilant in prayer”], which was written in his youth and remained unpublished during his lifetime, also stands out among the works of contemporaries by its artistic design and intensity of expression. All of Rachmaninoff’s sacred works are marked by highly individualistic religious emotionalism and a complexity of musical technique (texture, sonority, dynamics, etc.)

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Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

Conductor: Peter Jermihov

Label: Paraclete Press

Catalog: A140

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Performers: USSR Academic Russian Choir

Conductor: A. Sveshnikov

Label: Melodia/Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery

Catalog: A128

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chysostom

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Performers: "Rozhdestvo" Choir

Conductor: Olga Stupneva

Label: IML

Catalog: A135

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Sergei Rachmaninoff The Bells, Symphonic Dances

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Performers: Russian State Symphonic Cappella; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Olga Lutsiv-Ternovskaya, Soprano; Leonid Bomstein, Tenor; Vyacheslav Pochapskky, Bass

Conductor: Valery Polyansky

Label: CHANDOS

Catalog: A080

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Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil ('Vespers')

Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Mixed

Language: Church Slavonic

No. of titles: 15

No. of pages: 124

Cat. No: Ra-ANV

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Liturgiya Sv. Ioanna Zlatousta

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Mixed

Language: Church Slavonic

No. of titles: 20

No. of pages: 174

Cat. No: Ra-DL

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Six Choral Songs (Six Choruses) (with Russian and English text)

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Women’s/Treble

Language: English, Russian

No. of titles: 6

No. of pages: 36

Cat. No: Ra6Ch

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Sergei Rachmaninoff The Bells

Kolokola

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: Mixed (with orch.)

Language: Russian

No. of pages: 88

Cat. No: CP-TB

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Sergei Rachmaninoff In Thy Kingdom

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra006

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Sergei Rachmaninoff It Is Truly Fitting

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra015

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Let Our Mouths Be Filled

Da ispolniatsia

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra020

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Lord, Now Lettest Thou (Nunc dimittis)

Nïne otpushchayeshï

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div), T solo

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra027

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Sergei Rachmaninoff My Soul Magnifies the Lord

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra033

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Night (No. 2 from Six Choruses) (with English text)

Nochka

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SSAA

Language: Russian

Cat. No: Ra6Ch-2

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Only Begotten Son

Yedinorodnïy Sïne

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra004

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Panteley, the Healer

Panteley-tselitel'

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Russian

Cat. No: PS001

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Praise the Lord from the Heavens

Hvalite Ghospoda s nebes

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra018

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Sergei Rachmaninoff Praise the Name of the Lord

Hvalite imia Ghospodne

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Arrangement of: Znamenny Chant

Voicing: SATB(div)

Language: Church Slavonic

Cat. No: Ra030

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CD track: Bless The Lord, O My Soul...

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Russian Religious Hymns; Recordings from the 1940s-1950s

Performers: Ivan Semyenovich Kozlovsky, Tenor

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CD track: Come Let us worship

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

Performers: USSR Academic Russian Choir

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CD track: Come, Let Us Worship

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

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CD track: Symphonic Dances

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: The Bells, Symphonic Dances

Performers: Russian State Symphonic Cappella; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Olga Lutsiv-Ternovskaya, Soprano; Leonid Bomstein, Tenor; Vyacheslav Pochapskky, Bass

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CD track: Blessed Is The Man...

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Russian Religious Hymns; Recordings from the 1940s-1950s

Performers: Ivan Semyenovich Kozlovsky, Tenor

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CD track: Bless the Lord, My Soul

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

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By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

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CD track: The Bells

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: The Bells, Symphonic Dances

Performers: Russian State Symphonic Cappella; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Olga Lutsiv-Ternovskaya, Soprano; Leonid Bomstein, Tenor; Vyacheslav Pochapskky, Bass

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CD track: Blessed is the man

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (Vespers)

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CD track: Blessed Is the Man

By: Sergei Rachmaninoff

On CD: All-Night Vigil, Op.37

Performers: Gloriae Dei Cantores, St. Romanos Cappella, the Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and the Washington Master Chorale

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