Orthodox choir music - Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov: Nr.18 An Angel Halt Exclaimed, op.22

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Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov: Nr.18 An Angel Halt Exclaimed, op.22
Kammerchoir St. Petersburg, dir. Nikolai Koriev

Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Чесноков) (24 October 1877 14 March 1944), also transliterated Tschesnokoff, Tchesnokov and Chesnokov, was a Russian composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece Salvation is Created as well as works such as Do Not Reject Me in Old Age (solo for Basso Profondo). His anthem O Lord God has served as signature benedictory of The Nordic Choir of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa since 1948

Besides receiving numerous national awards, it has excelled in the international arena, winning prizes in Hungary in 1986 and in Germany and Italy in 1989. In 1994 the choir was awarded a Grammy for the best Choral Performance of the Vespers by Sergei Rachmaninov. On the back of these successes the choir has launched an extensive international touring career, and has received widespread critical acclaim in the United States, the United Kingdom and continental Europe.

The choirs broad repertoire includes Renaissance music, Bachs sacred compositions, nineteenth-century music and contemporary works, many of which were composed for the choir. In this way the choir has attracted the attention of many well-known conductors and soloists. Over the years such conductors as Gennady Roshdestvensky, Yury Simonov, Semyon Bychkov, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev and Sir Georg Solti have worked with the ensemble. In 2000 the choir performed the world première of St Johns Passion by Sofia Gubaidulina. The choir participates in all the significant musical festivals in St. Petersburg . Valery Gergiev invited the choir to perform at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1994 for the first time.

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[mariuszny]

"Kammerchoir St. Petersburg, dir. Olga Borodina"

Is she a conductor, director of this choir, or soloist?

[AchillesValda]

Thaks for your comment and at the same time thanks for your notice!! Olga Borodina is mistake, he is great rusian mezzo-sopano but this part sings soprano (name is unknown?), choir condukts Nikolai Korniev, again thaks fo my mistake! Have a nice day!

PS:Sorry for my English :-)

[Direttrice1]

@AchillesValda Nikolaj Korenev or Koriev??  Good and intensive performance !

[AchillesValda]

@Direttrice1 Nikolaj Korniev is corect :-) my mistake... :-)

[religionorthodox]

What is pity is that sometimes the Church is being transformed into an Opera House... Do not forget the Greek traditions and the Byzantine Singing.

[Yakovlievich]

@religionorthodox Yes, but it's still gorgeous music.

[Vierotchka]

@wiseman2131 Everybody sharing and benefiting as one is basically Christ's teaching - the first Christian communities could be described as communist in the pure sense of the word.

[Vierotchka]

This tremolissimo operatic soprano simply doesn't fit or suit this otherwise beautiful Chesnokov composition. The most beautiful Russian Orthodox choral music is totally free of tremolos.

[religionorthodox]

@NekoKitty14 All of you are forgeting about Bulgarians :) Our country was the first to adobt Slavonic Language and then the disciples of St Patriarch Euthimius spread around the world because of the TUrkish. They influenced all the Slavic cultures, including Russians :)

[Gidenkidenk]

imagine hearing this in a church with stone walls.......oooooooo

the soloist sounds like my aunt

[Gidenkidenk]

imagine hearing this in a church with stone walls.......oooooooo

[Ivorybird09]

@NekoKitty14 Russian is a Slavic language in the Indo-European family. SLAVIC vs LATIN. : ) It also has a considerable number of words of Finno-Ugric origin (north of Europe). Over the course of centuries, the vocabulary and literary style was influenced by Western and Central European languages such as Polish, Latin, Dutch, German, French, and English. The punctuation, originally based on Byzantine Greek, was in the 17th and 18th centuries reformulated on the French and German models.