Sergej Rachmaninov All-night vigil (vespers) op 37

[@Elijah24553]

31:13 is what Rachmaninoff references in coda of his symphonic dances, if anyone’s wondering.

[@alexrodergasrusinol4595]

Preciós!!

[@albinatomic644]

Veličanstveno!

[@gustaverebillon4254]

Wonderfull

[@sergio-feferovich]

2:22 18:28 26:22

[@владимирбеглецов-и8ю]

Молодец!!

[@thelonearchitect]

2:22

[@magibert]

Beautiful! I sing in a choir and I just proposed to my director to incorporate this piece into our repertoire. Do you sing it in Russian? Transcribed from this language in the Latin alphabet? In English?...

[@doggy5]

It's not Russian. It's a special liturgical language called Church Slavonic, which is shared by the Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian Orthodox churches. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church once used it too, but after they were granted autocephaly by Constantinople in 2018 (which led to the Russian Orthodox Church leaving the Eastern Orthodox communion in protest), they switched their liturgical language from Church Slavonic to Ukrainian. By the way, the closest vernacular language to Church Slavonic is actually Bulgarian and not Russian.

[@vinkywink]

@@doggy5
Language is called Old Slavic, not Church Slavonic..

[@pulverapa1580]

Yes, we used a transcribed version of the sheet music. (Some of us who were comfortable with cyrillic did not, though, hence why you sometimes see a person [me] turn page at a seemingly random moment 😅)

[@edgarfiliprozycki7997]

@@vinkywink to be accurate - it's called Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic. Sometimes Old Bulgarian. :)

[@irisk6035]

26:22

[@marcin_kalbarczyk]

this rendition lacks slavic spirit of sorrow and contemplation

[@lakkfatt2321]

18:28

[@べーこん-x1r]

56:42