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Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58

Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58

The seven days known as Passion Week represent an entirely unique period in the liturgical year of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church: a time of great liturgical intensity in which worshippers are invited to re-live, “in real time”, the dramatic events in the life of Jesus Christ. Each setting can be regarded as a musical highlight from the particular service in which it occurs. Musically speaking, Grechaninov regarded Passion Week as “exhausting all the technical means which the unaccompanied chorus can render.” It takes the listener through a broad range of emotional and spiritual experience, and enlarges both the musical forms and the choral forces in terms of range and complexity of texture.


Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy

“…The Seven Days of the Passion is a milestone in the history of Russian choral literature. …Charles Bruffy and his singers… understand this fully, rejoicing in the work's technical challenges and its vast range of colour and pacing it superbly.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2007

“There's a symphonic sweep to the structure, inspired by the trajectory of the Passion narrative, and Bruffy is keenly aware of the necessity to pace the climaxes and the tempos. If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I find profoundly moving.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2007 *****

BBC Music Magazine

Choral & Song Choice - May 2007

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Light of the Spirit

Light of the Spirit


 

Kontakion of the departed

O quanta qualia

Deep river

Steal away

Byrd:

Justorum animae

O Lux beata Trinitas

Davies, Walford:

Psalm 121 'I will lift up mine eyes'

Requiem aeternam

Despres:

Nunc Dimittis

Grechaninov:

Svyétye tíkhii (Hail, gladdening Light)

Gregorian Chant:

Domine Jesu Christe

In paradisum

Lumen

Requiem aeternam

Harris, W:

Bring us, O Lord God

Faire is the heaven

Hildegard:

O coruscans lux stellarum

O felix anima

Holst:

The Evening-watch, H159

Nunc dimittis, H127

Ligeti:

Lux aeterna

Palestrina:

Christe, qui lux es et dies

Lucis Creator optime

Parry:

There is an old belief (No. 4 from Songs of Farewell)

Rachmaninov:

Nunc Dimittis

Rautavaara:

Ehtoohymni

Rutter:

Hymn to the Creator of Light

Schütz:

Selig sind die Toten, SWV391

Sheppard, J:

Audivi vocem de caelo

Tallis:

O nata lux de lumine 5vv

Te lucis ante terminum

Tavener:

Funeral Ikos

Tchaikovsky:

Svyétye tíkhii (Hail, gladdening Light)

Victoria:

O quam gloriosum, motet

White, Robert:

Christe qui lux es et dies

Wood, C:

Hail, gladdening Light


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