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Simple yet highly effective, Fyodor Stepanov’s setting of St. Symeon’s Prayer (Luke 2:29-32) presents the text in a solemn and majestic fashion, eschewing the minor tonality, chromaticism, and sentimentality that characterize other nineteenth-century Russian compositions on this text. Displaying a number of stylistic features characteristic of the “New Direction” in Russian sacred music of the early 20th century—octave doublings, pedal points above and below the melodies of the inner voices, “empty” fourths and fifths, and occasional parallelisms, this is a rich piece suitable for Evensong and Christmas.
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