Rachmaninov Vespers - 6 Hail Mary

USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir
Conductor: Valeri Polyansky
Recording 1986 Smolensk, Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral
Updated HD version - 30500 views so far

Рахманинов - Всенощное бдение - Богородице, Дево, радуйся
Камерный хор Министерства культуры СССР
под управлением Валерия Полянского
Смоленск, собор Успения Божией Матери, 1986

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Music

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• choir
• Rachmaninov
• Vespers
• Hail
• Mary
• sacred
• orthodox
• church
• music
• Рахманинов
• Богородице
• дево
• Всенощное
• бдение
• Polyansky
• Полянский

[MichaelJLgs19p]

Thank you very much for the videos!

What language is this?

[VitaliyGR]

@MichaelJLgs19p

This is Church Slavonic - Old Russian, so to say

[VitaliyGR]

browny333

6 дн. назад

haha whichever tank of a bass put in the low B at the final suspension is a boss

[VitaliyGR]

mike591938

1 месяц назад

To be a bit of a nit-picker, the choir's pitch starts only fractionally below A440, but drifts down to almost a semitone flat. The bass note you hear at the end is not in the score - Russian choir basses seem to like adding the octave below the penultimate note - in this case it's an actual low B natural. No prob!

[VitaliyGR]

johnlalala23

2 мес. назад

i'm supposed to sing the basso profondo part for this and i'm 15.... wish me luck.

[VitaliyGR]

layth111111111111

2 мес. назад

one of the best choirs.

[Mattjc7845]

I don't know too much about music(reading and so forth), However I was in a choir, and we did vespers 6 and 7, and that note at the end, whatever it was is certainly tough. My tricks are get absolutely piss drunk the night before (at the legal alcohol drinking age) and take a short sleep before the performance. Rests the vocal chords and your ready to go. Russians, and other Europeans just have this extra low range and I would kill for the projection they have.

[memuellerpac]

This is the recording I have of Rach. Vespers-it is fabulous! It sounds better from my CD (considerably) than it does here on youtube, but you can still get a sense of the excellence of the choir and the majesty of the song. Much better than the Robert Shaw Chorale- for this piece.

[essig3laura]

this is how Heaven sounds like. can't hear this without crying..

[dmower397]

Addendum: This is my favorite recording of this work. There are other great recordings out there but this tops them all.

[dmower397]

The entire All-Night Vigil is a work of pure genius and inspiration. You can't listen to this...really listen to it...and not be touched.

[dbikeguy]

If you listen closely, I believe there is a bass trying to hit a double low F at the end. Anyone else hear this?

[whodat310]

For those who consider Rachmaninov bombastic, backward and repetitive, these beautiful works should set them straight!

[ejlong711]

This one is by far my favorite.

[bbbiggs]

This is beautiful.

[bizintin]

@VitaliyGR I enjoy reading the way your wonderful mind plays. Such giftedness. I wonder what other lovely things your brain gets to do with the grace of sensitivity and willingness to get out there with your preceptions..