SVIRIDOV Hymns and Prayers
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Composer or Director: Gyorgy Sviridov
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Toccata Classics
Magazine Review Date: 03/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 78
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: TOCC0123
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Hymns and Prayers |
Gyorgy Sviridov, Composer
Bogdan Plish, Conductor Credo Chamber Choir Gyorgy Sviridov, Composer Ivanna Bondaruk, Soprano Nazar Yakobenchuk, Baritone Roman Pachashynsky, Tenor Roman Podlubnyak, Tenor Tarasiy Mudrak, Bass Yuliya Zuveya, Mezzo soprano |
Author: Ivan Moody
The ‘Song of Purification’ provides a perfect example of Sviridov’s approach. It creates a yearning, penitential atmosphere with its arching melodic lines, and sets verses taken from various places in Psalm 50 and the invocation ‘Most Holy Mother of God, save me. Alleluia’, so could qualify as para-liturgical. Sviridov is not only a master of dramatic pacing and narrative but of choral texture, and this is something he certainly absorbed from the great sacred choral tradition that culminated in Rachmaninov’s Vigil.
The performances by the Credo Chamber Choir, founded in 2002 and directed by Bogdan Plish, are outstanding. The singers miss no shade, no colour, no subtlety in Sviridov’s work, and in the Uspensky Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra they have the perfect recording venue. Highly recommended.
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