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The music of the Russian Orthodox Church was an essential part of Sergei Rachmaninov's musical background. As a boy he was deeply moved by the sound of St Petersburg's cathedral choirs, and phrases riscent of litual chant permeate his music. His Vespers has long been admired as a summit of Russian litual music. It has unfortunately tended to overshadow the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, his earlier large-scale sacred composition. Named after the fourth-century Archbishop of Constantinople and Church Father, the Liturgy consists of a sequence of prayers, psalms and hymns, which are sung or chanted by the different participants in the service. Rachmaninov did not make use of any existing chants (as he would later do in his Vespers), but chose to reflect their style and spirit with music entirely of his own. The sonorities he creates is rarely achieved by plain four-part writing: instead the voices are frequently divided, solos emerge from the choir, and the range of textures shows great imagination. The Liturgy is here performed in the warm acoustics of the Niguliste Church in Tallinn by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir – listed among the ten best choirs in the world by the BBC Music Magazine in 2020 – conducted by Kaspars Putninš.
Tracklist
01. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 1, The Great Litany
02. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 2, Bless the Lord, O My Soul
03. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 3, Glory to the Father - Only-Begotten Son
04. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 4, in Thy Kingdom
05. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 5, Come, Let Us Worship
06. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 6, O Lord, Save the Pious - Holy God
07. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 7, The Augmented Litany
08. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 8, The Cherubic Hymn
09. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 9, The Litany of Supplication
10. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 10, The Creed
11. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 11, The Eucharistic Prayer
12. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 12, We Hymn Thee
13. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 13, Hymn to the Mother of God
14. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 14, The Lord's Prayer
15. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 16, Praise the Lord from the Heavens
16. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 17, Blessed Is He - We Have Seen the True Light
17. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 18, Let Our Mouths Be Filled
18. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts): No. 19, Blessed Be the Name of the Lord - No. 20, Many Years



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