Blagoslovi Dushe Moya Gospoda (Vespers). Rakhmaninov

[kaname96kuran]

i know only few people can appreciate this now...and im glad i'm one of those people...thanks to my amazing choir teacher for making me appreciate this kind of beautiful music..

[smike09100]

Is this the sound of God's hand sweeping the dark, winter wind through the Siberian forests, heard only by angels and wolves? :-)

[YbYBwRbY]

Thank you for this lovely video, one of my favorites. I often listen to it when I walk at night to the house where Vladimir Nabokov lived here, to say a quiet prayer and think of his great work. You might mention, by the way, that it is a setting of Psalm 104, one of the great masterpieces of Hebrew poetry. All best wishes from here in Massachusetts! And thanks again.

[korlock3000]

Each time I listen to this piece it gets better. I've listened to it probably over 100 times. My brain is going to explode.

[tenoreuno]

Exquisite!!! I had the honor of touring Russia in 1994 doing a joint concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Conservatory Chorale...their singing was spectacular!!! And the Russian people were so wonderful! I would love to visit again.

[futurstew]

I'm a Catholic but I must say that Orthodox songs, liturgy and imagery are sooo beautiful...This piece brings me tears.I often go to orthodox vespers and I keep praying for us Catholics and Orthodox to be reunited again, we have a lot to share and to learn from each other. I wonder what our lord think of us quareling and dividing his Church...what a shame. My respect to all Orthodox.

[hrschubert]

This is stunningly beautiful! Long live Orthodoxy!

Btw, Could you please tell me the name of the paintings and of the painters?

[NidzoBanana]

+++очень красиво+++

[vladimyr9]

How is a person able to post a comment here?

[Oldladeesistahs]

How can you not think this is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written? I luv it!!!!

[Hidajunshin]

Beautiful.  Thanks for posting.

[mkrsk]

This is nice music.

[Mattijjah85]

Do you know authors of this paintings?

[AriBenDavid]

I must echo the comments on the art. Refreshing it is to see contemporary art that is spiritual. It relieves the oppression of contemporary godless art.

[Cherubicon]

You have great taste. Thanks for such a beautiful video. I'm glad that genuine art still lives in Russia... such art is not taken seriously much where I live.

[darthwehmann]

Who is the artist that paint this images........just beautiful!!! Tanks!

[Vostorgina01]

They are various contemporary Russian artists. This is visible proof of the revival of Orthodoxy in Russia. I shall try to contact you directly using the Youtube service, and I can probably send on some jpegs of the images.

s Rozhdestvom Khristovym!

r. b. Vostorgina

[ArturoAlejandroS]

I have a question.Are those artists of nowdays in Russia modernists?Do they take the russian tradition of painting of XIX century?Thanks.I love the russian traditional painting,it's the best

This musics is too beautiful,comes to the deep of persons and it gives peace.God bless you.

[Vostorgina01]

These paintings were done after 1991, so, they are contemporary works. Most Russian easel painters are trained at the Repin and Surikov Faculties, where they learn to paint in the traditional realist style of the 19th century Peredvizhniki.

r. b. Vostorgina

[ArturoAlejandroS]

I am too glad to hear this,contemporany art that is beautiful.Levitan,Repin,Shiski­n,Vasnetsov,etc,great!!

I regret how the beauty russian artists tradition was lost after 1917.I don't like the avantgard movement but even I prefer it to the horrible,political,lier and pathetical soviet realism art,that showed "the great Stalin and the goodness of bolsheviks". It's not realistic,is not true,"the paradise of workers" never existed.I hate when people in West ignore the crimes of boshies

[MJnifda]

@Vostorgina01 What are the names of the artists, please?

[Vostorgina01]

@MJnifda The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir sings it under the direction of Paul Hillier, and the soloist is Iris Oja. It's in the credits and in the video description... you must be one of those who're just listening to the music...

;-)

r. b. Vostorgina

[MJnifda]

@Vostorgina01 Oh ok thank you and yeah sorry bout that. Btw just curious who did the painitings?

[Vostorgina01]

@MJnifda They're all paintings executed by various contemporary Russian artists in the last 25 years. The revival began under the Sovs... NOT in 1991.

r. b. Vostorgina

[MJnifda]

@Vostorgina01 Well they're wonderful and I won't forget "NOT in 1991" haha. Anyway thank you so much for the upload. Rachmaninov was always my first love, in music that is haha.

[okcham]

@ArturoAlejandroS

This dieing art of Painting is no more to find so easily. Soon, as to find a Dinosauron. You cant lern this from a School or Univercity of Painting, becouse is not practicing anymore. All they want, is to lern a modern stuff. But they are stil some Peaple practicing this old School / a noble peaple. Russia, Bulgaria - look there !

Im glad to speaking to you,

Salut.

[Svegliati]

Vostorgina,

thank you for this video: music and  pictures are wonderful.

[saturne46]

Grand merci à Vostorgina01 pour ces magnifiques chants religieux de Rachmaninoff. Les peintures aussi sont merveilleuses. Je ne me lasse pas d'écouter ses vidéos.

[elsjepels]

I am listening to it now before going to sleep. It is the first cold evening autumn day, and I am in a warm house; just discovered this wonderful recording. Thank you for posting.

[daniel0azar]

Awesome... beyond description...

[street89fighter]

beautiful

[novokarpati]

Many things can be said of this Blessed music, brought to us by the Grace of God thru His instrument Sergei Rachmaninoff. To 'only' listen with an astounded ear is ordinary, but to be enlightened with the Words of God sung here is to be transported to 'the place between earth and heaven'. This music should only be sung a capella (original intent), for one does not bring a mortal instrument, save for the instrument of the 'body' of His Creation, in to the Holy Assembly of His Church. Iz Bohom

[djsmurfie]

Hi, who are the artists of the paintings in the video?

[thejazztenor]

verlo lepo,aco ico razume!

[violavonschnitzel]

I've only recently discovered Rachmaninoff's choral music, and all I can say is that I'm disappointed that, being a pianist, I only ever looked for his piano music. This is some of the most beautiful music that I have ever heard, or ever will hear probably. So thanks so much for introducing me to Rach's Vespers. I am eternally grateful to you, Vostorgina :)

[pavelkostov]

great recording but there is a far better one which is unrivlaed, type in blagoslovi dushe muya and click on the second option, with klara as the soloist, best basses i've ever heard

[ArturoAlejandroS]

I think the same like you!I thought that choral religious music was too dark and gothical,but this is magnific at extrem!

[cgboomer]

such beautiful paintings and heavenly music! thank you!

[Cardien18]

heavenly....

[svarrog]

Гудьба великолѣпная но чухонцы портятъ всё дѣло, слишкомъ медленно и размѣренно, яко траву жуютъ, и вокалъ блеклый, азъ думаю что исполненіе 65 года на которое ссылались выше, на порядокъ лучше, и еще вопросъ что сіе за контемпорари артъ? Не похоже что сіе было писано въ Росиянии

[maratom34]

Thanks

[pavelkostov]

you must hear the version by thr moscow state choir from 1965, unrivaled, never will be rivaled! the low basses are insane in this version.

[Vostorgina01]

Of course, everyone is familiar with the famous classic recording by Aleksandr Svrshnikov. I also believe that the contralto soloist (Klara Korkan) in the second piece of the cycle has never been rivalled. I have not been able to find it in a mp3 file to set to video... sad.

raba bozhiya Vostorgina

[pavelkostov]

I have the CD which I play constantly ha, yes this is a good choir, but it just can't compare to that recording. I could try to put it on youtube!

[saab900se]

Someone has finally posted the 1965 recording with the incomparably beautiful singing of Klara Korkan. The nearest I ever heard was a performance by the heavily augmented BBC singers in the London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in about 1980 with the hardly heard Ameral Gunson who produced a wonderful Slavic sound.

[ralpius]

Yes, I remember it .And a review following the performance saying that Ameral Gunson sounded straight from tha Steppes .The conductor was Rozdhestvensky.

[BachLoveNat]

Amazing.

Brought tears to my eyes...

Thank you for that, dear Vostogina01.

[Ankhsnammon]

Without words....Without words,Natascha!

Nina

and Spasibo again!!!

[FinnishKnife]

Unbelieveably beautiful choral music. And the paintings are really so pretty, I wish to climb into them and simply live there...