Russian Divine Liturgy

Russian Divine Liturgy

Russian Divine Liturgy
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
  1. Meeting And Vesting Of Bishop
  2. Eis Polla Eti, Despota
  3. Great Litany
  4. Bless The Lord, O My Soul
  5. The Only Begotten Son
  6. Come, Let Us Worship And Fall Down Before Christ
  7. The Trisagion
  8. Prokeimenon
  9. Alleluia
  10. Cherubic Hymn
  11. The Nicene Creed
  12. A Mercy Of Peace
  13. The Hymn To The Theotokos
  14. Praise The Lord From The Heavens!
  15. Psalm CXX (Mironisitsky)
  16. Blessed By the Name Of The Lord, Henceforth And For Ever More
  17. Great Doxology

Music reviews of Russian Divine Liturgy

Music Review: Performance is fine, but recording and liner notes are poor
Rating: 2 Stars

RUSSIAN DIVINE LITURGY is a performance by the Novospassky Monastery Choir of the Russian Orthodox liturgy celebrated by a bishop. The music of the Russian Orthodox liturgy consists only of the human voice singing in the Russian Church Slavonic language (a redaction of Old Church Slavonic made easier for speakers of Russian to pronounce). No instrumentation is included.

There is a great deal of passion in this performance as in the "Trisagion". There is also grace and sweetness, as in the "Great Litany" or the recitation of the Nicene Creed. This recording portrays those aspects of Orthodox worship which have wowed members of other denominations with their beauty and profound sincerity.

Though the performance was fine, the sound quality of this recording is unimpressive. Though a DDD studio recording, the engineers did not really explore the space of the venue and the voices are often muddled and indistinguishable. This probably would have sounded better in a church than in a studio with these engineers.

The liner notes are also of rather poor quality, as is unfortunately quite common with Naxos discs. There is no libretto, just excepts from several of the portions and descriptions. Church Slavonic text is missing entirely. The names of the Ukrainian cities Kyiv and Lviv are spelled according to the (often considered offensive) Russian manner of Kiev and L'vov. The commentary, which do not appear professionally edited, are uncredited.

If you are interested in Church Slavonic liturgy in music, I would recommend Arvo Part's setting of the "Kanon Pokajanen" penitence text. The disc released by ECM New Series features a detailed libretto with the Church Slavonic, fine translations, and an essay about this portion of Orthodox liturgy. Naxos has released here an authentic and sincere performance of the liturgy, but the poor liner notes and sound quality do little to recommend it.
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