Gospodi pomiluj rachmaninov biography

Recording Information

The Choir of St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street
Director of Music: Robert Jones
Producer: Benjamin Rayfield
Engineer: Edward Armitage

Track List

  • Priidite, poklonimsja
  • Blagoslovi, dushe moja
  • Blazhen muzh
  • Svete tikhij
  • Nyne otpushchaeshi
  • Bogorodice Devo, radujsja
  • Shestopsalmie
  • Khvalite imja Gospodne
  • Blagosloven esi, Gospodi
  • Voskresenie Khristovo videvshe
  • Velichit dusha Moja Gospoda
  • Slavoslovie Velikoe
  • Tropar’, “Dnes’ spasenie”
  • Tropar’, “Voskres iz groba”
  • Vzbrannoj voevode

Programme Notes

By the time he left Russia in 1917, Rachmaninov was greatly admired as a celebrated composer, conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre and an internationally touring virtuoso pianist.

Glagolitic Mass - Wikipedia

The Vespers op. 37 were written in less than two weeks in early 1915, but he probably envisaged it while working on The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom op. 31 (1910). In these two large-scale religious works Rac Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op.31 (Rachmaninoff, Sergei) ZEHYF