Schedule for IV Christmas Festival of Sacred Music Concert closing 2022

Academic Grand Choir
" Masters of Choral Singing "
Artistic director and chief conductor - Lev Kontorovich
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RUSSIAN
Artistic director and chief conductor - Vladimir Spivakov
 
Soloists: Anna Aglatova , soprano
                   Sergei Radchenko , tenor
                   Vasily LaDuke , baritone
 
Conductor - Vladimir Spivakov
 
The program includes:
Tchaikovsky . Fragments " Liturgy . John Chrysostom , "" Vigil " acappella choirs favorites
Rachmaninoff. "Bells" , a poem for soloists, chorus and orchestra
on Poe poems translated Balmont
 
"Even people far from religion , there is a space for the soul of religious feeling , - says Vladimir Spivakov , artistic director of the Christmas festival . - That it is motivated composers at all times, and will continue until there is peace ... " Vladimir Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia perform annually at the close of the Christmas Festival of Sacred Music , presenting outstanding works of Western European and Russian masters. In the final program of the fourth forum brought pearls of Russian classics performed will also participate brilliant soloists and renowned choir " Masters of Choral Singing ."
 
" Liturgy " and " Vigil " by Tchaikovsky rightfully belong to the national treasury of choral music. The reason for their creation and the attraction was the composer to Christian values ​​( "In my soul more and more clings light of faith ... I feel more and more inclined to think that our only bulwark against any disaster ... I feel like I 'm starting to be able to love God ... "), and his desire to" keep the entire integrity of the ancient chants , " liturgical singing return to his ancestral roots, " our church to return her property. " After Tchaikovsky's death, his spiritual music has also performed in concerts outside the temple .
 
Rachmaninoff poem "The Bells " - lyrical and philosophical reflection Orthodox composer of life and death , they passed through the ritual symbolism of the bell sounds. Image of bell ringing goes through all the work of the composer. However, symbolism and mysticism , predominating in the poem Poe, Rachmaninov took much less than emotionally intense psychological genre paintings depicting the stages of human life. " This work, I worked at a feverish excitement, and remains to this day , in my opinion , the best of my works - confessed to his biographer composer Oscar Rizemanu . - I have dedicated "Bells" Willem Mengelberg and his striking orchestra " Concertgebouw " in Amsterdam . "