This recording centres on music produced by a group of composers linked to the Moscow Synodal School of Church Singing, famous for its choir (comprising men and boys) at the beginning of the twentieth century. These composers made, up to the time of the momentous events of 1917, a significant contribution to the future of Russian choral music, one that, while never forgotten in Russia, is now also coming to be appreciated in the West. That their work did not emerge from a vacuum is made evident here by the inclusion of music by earlier composers: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840– 1893), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Mili Balakirev (1837–1910) and César Cui (1835–1918).In 1879 there occurred a famous incident which would have significant consequences for Russian church music. Pyotr Jürgenson, the Moscow music publisher who frequently worked with the Imperial Chapel, published Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of St John Chrysostom without the authorization of the Chapel—indispensable since the time of Bortnyans’ky. Bakhmetev, its director, attempted to forbid publication, but Tchaikovksy sought and received authorization from the Senate. Though many have considered the work too ‘Western’, it may be seen as truly Russian in spirit, and marks the end of the period of German domination and the initiation of the study and recovery of the Russian Church’s musical past. Tchaikovsky himself later worked more seriously with the chant repertoire, and his settings for the Vigil show a preoccupation with finding a valid style of genuinely liturgical composition. The present recording includes his arresting setting of Priidite, poklonimsya, followed by the Trisagion (Trisviatoye), from his 1879 Liturgy.
- Wykonawca Holst Singers
- Data premiery 2010-07-01
- Nośnik CD
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