Rachmaninow: Vespers op. 37 for mixed choir a cappella
by Sergei Rachmaninoff
A Cappella - Sheet Music

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SKU: CA.2301400

Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Edited by Helmut Loos. This edition: Paperbound. Sacred vocal music, Morning, midday, evening. Full score. 112 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 23.014/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2301400).

ISBN 9790007165086.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil is his last contribution to Russian Orthodox church music. The liturgical model for this work is a worship service which occurs the evening before sacred holidays and consists of a succession of prayers, readings and chants. In this composition for a cappella choir Rachmaninoff was able to create a unity between the original chants of the Orthodox Church and his new musical ideas to achieve such a profound emotional depth that the All-Night Vigil was crowned with a triumphal success upon its premiere in 1915. In this new edition the text is underlaid in Church Slavonic in Latin transcription, as well as in a singable German translation. It also contains an English pronunciation table.