Русское Рождество \ Russian Christmas

RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS
Vasily Titov (c.1650 – after 1711)
1 “Glory. Only-begotten Son” for 12 voices* (edited by N.Yu. Plotnikova). 3.22
Anonymous (17 c.)
2 “Your Birth, O Christ, Our God”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.22
Vasily Gusev (end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th c.)
3 “Christ Is Born” for 12 voices* (edited by A.V. Bulycheva). . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.23
Vasily Titov (c.1650 – after 1711)
4 “Rejoice, O Righteous Ones” for 12 voices
(edited by V.V. Protopopov / A.V. Bulycheva). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11
Anonymous (17th c.)
5 “Today Christ Is Born in Bethlehem” (edited by L.V. Kondrashkova). . . . . 4.13
Dmitry Bortnyansky (1751 – 1825)
6 Choral concerto No. 6 “Glory to God in the Highest” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.09
7 Cherubim Song No. 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943)
8 “Hail, Theotokos Virgin”, No. 6 from “The All-Night Vigil”, Op. 37. . . . . . . 3.14
9 “Praise the Lord from the Heavens!”
No. 16 from “The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom”, Op. 31. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.45
Sergey Taneyev (1856 – 1915)
10 “The Stars”, Op. 15 No. 1, words by Alexey Khomyakov . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.36
Georgy Sviridov (1915 – 1998)
11 “Reveille”, No. 7 from the choral concerto “A Pushkin Wreath” . . . . . . . . 5.34 12 “Having beheld a Wondrous Birth” from “Canticles and Prayers”. . . . . . . 4.47
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Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Four Russian Peasant Songs (“Podblyudnye”) (1914 – 1954)
on traditional words
13 1. “In Our Saviour’s Parish in Chigisy Beyond the Yauza”. . . . . . . . . . . 0.47
14 2. “Ovsen”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.39
15 3. “The Pike”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.53
16 4. “Мaster Portlу”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.13
Galina Grigorieva (b. 1962)
Choral Concerto “Svyatki”:
17 No. 2 “Holy Evening”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.29
18 No. 5 “Spring Is Coming”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.35
Alfred Schnittke (1934 – 1998)
19 “Winter”*, words by Alexander Prokofiev. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.58
20 Folk song “Shchedryk” (“The Little Swallow”),
arrangement: Mykola Leontovych (1877 – 1921). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.27