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Posted on July 14, 2019

Достойно есть (“Dostoyno est”/”It is Fitting”), Nine Sacred Pieces #5, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, sung by The Cambridge Singers

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Posted on March 23, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 23rd, “Echelon’s Song”, Red Army Chorus

This plays over the credits of the Coen Brothers’ wildly entertaining ode to the last days of the Hollywood Studio System, Hail Caesar! You’ll have to watch it to find…

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Posted on March 15, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch: March 15th. Bonus: full performance of Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil from Smolensk Cathedral

   

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Posted on March 15, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 15th: “Bogoroditse Devo” from All Night Vigil, Sergei Rachmaninov performed by St Petersburg Chamber Choir

On this day in 1915 Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil was first performed. Back in 2013, I conceived of a grandiose plan that performances of this piece could be held contemporaneously…

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Posted on March 12, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch: March 12th, “Arise Ye Russian Peoples”, from Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Prokofiev

Is Sergei Prokofiev’s score to Alexander Nevsky, the Eistenstein tale of a heroic Russian unifier defeating a Teutonic foe which was naturally enough suitable propaganda for Stalin, the greatest soundtrack…

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Posted on March 4, 2019February 17, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 4th, “The Besoms”, Male Choir of the Moscow Academy of Vocal Arts

If there is a vocal tradition I am most drawn to, it is the Russian. Around 2000 I saw the UCD Choral Scholars (more of which later this month)  in…

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Posted on January 19, 2019

“Tetris” theme played on organ of St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule by Rónán Murray

The title says it all….though the piece is more properly called Korobeiniki  

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Posted on October 3, 2018

Mikhail Vrubel, “Moses”

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