Tenebrae to release Alexander Levine’s The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Charlotte Smith
Monday, March 4, 2013
Chamber choir Tenebrae will give the UK premiere of Alexander Levine’s The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom directed by Nigel Short in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, London this Thursday, March 7. The performance will also mark the work’s release on Signum Classics and its publication by Edition Peters.
The large-scale religious piece for a cappella choir was inspired by the murdered Russian priest Father Alexander Men, and received its world premiere in 2009 by Andrei Petrenko and the Mariinsky Opera Choir.
Hear an excerpt from Tenebrae’s recording of the 'Trisagion Hymn' from The Divine Liturgy on the Gramophone Player below:
