FULL ALL NIGHT VIGIL (Rachmaninov) Moscow 2023
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: All-Night Vigil or Russian Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye
- Composer: Rachmaninov Sergei
- Libretto: texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony
- Venue & Opera Company: Zaryadye Hall, Moscow, Russia
- Recorded: April 18, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers:
- Conductor: Georgy Safonov
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Choir of boys and youths of the Choir School named after. A.V. Sveshnikova, Boys' Chapel of the Nizhny Novgorod Choir College L.K. Sivukhina (Nizhny Novgorod), Boys and Youth Choir Cantus Choir of young men and boys "Debut", Festive male choir of the Moscow Danilov Monastery Siberian male choir. Founded on the initiative of A.V. Uss (Krasnoyarsk), Male choir "All Saints" (Belarus). Moscow Chamber Men's Choir "Kastalsky" Academic Male Choir MEPhI
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Zaryadye Hall
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 23 March 1915 in Moscow.
The piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony. It has been praised as Rachmaninoff’s finest achievement and “the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church”. It was one of Rachmaninoff’s two favorite compositions[3] along with The Bells, and the composer requested that its fifth movement (Нынѣ отпущаеши, Nunc dimittis) be sung at his funeral.
The title of the work is often mis-translated as Vespers. This is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work; only the first six of its fifteen movements set texts from the Russian Orthodox canonical hour of Vespers.