Rachmaninoff's Vespers
Rachmaninnoff's settings of liturgical music for the Russian Orthodox vespers (overnight) service.
About forty singers (guesstimate) in a church with perfect acoustics for that size choir. A capella. Russian sonority, Rachmaninoff's amazing lyrical ability.
Unimaginable beauty. Breathtaking, goose-bump-making beauty. I'm sure it's good on good equipment as a recording, but nothing--nothing--is like Being There.
We were there, and I'm very, very glad.
About forty singers (guesstimate) in a church with perfect acoustics for that size choir. A capella. Russian sonority, Rachmaninoff's amazing lyrical ability.
Unimaginable beauty. Breathtaking, goose-bump-making beauty. I'm sure it's good on good equipment as a recording, but nothing--nothing--is like Being There.
We were there, and I'm very, very glad.