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Russian Liturgical Music is the musical tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. This tradition began with the importation of the Byzantine Empire's religious music when the Kievan Rus' converted to Orthodoxy in 988.
Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia is the first release in the Hearts of Space Records series 'Sacred Treasures'. The 1998 compilation album is composed of choral pieces from the Russian Orthodox Church .
The Obikhod (Обиход церковного пения) is a collection of polyphonic Russian Orthodox liturgical chants forming a major tradition of Russian liturgical music; it includes both liturgical texts and psalm settings. The original Obikhod, the book of rites of the monastery of Volokolamsk, was composed about 1575. Among its ...
An oktavist is an exceptionally deep-ranged basso profondo, especially typical of Russian Orthodox choral music.This voice type has a vocal range which extends down to A 1 (an octave below the baritone range) and sometimes to F 1 (an octave below the bass staff) with the extreme lows for oktavists, such as Mikhail Zlatopolsky or Alexander Ort, reaching C 1.
Tchaikovsky's setting of the Divine Liturgy, along with his All-Night Vigil and his nine sacred songs, were of seminal importance in the later interest in Orthodox music. [8] [22] [23] Other composers, encouraged by the freedom created by the new lack of restriction on sacred music, soon followed Tchaikovsky's example. [9]
However the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of the Soviet Union led to the government condemnation of religious music, [9] and on 22 July 1918 the Synodal Choir was replaced by a non-religious "People's Choir Academy". [10] It has been written that "no composition represents the end of an era so clearly as this liturgical work". [11]
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Russian: Литургия Иоанна Златоуста), is a 1910 musical work by Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of his two major unaccompanied choral works (the other being his All-Night Vigil). The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the primary worship service of the Eastern Orthodox Church. [1]
Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Георгий Васильевич Свиридов [n 1]; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian composer.He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influenced by the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as his orchestral works which often celebrate elements of Russian culture.