Archangelski, Alexander - Bogoroditsje Djevo - Vespers 5

for SATB a cappella

year of composition / 1st publication: s.a.

		Composer: Alexander Archangelski (1846-1924) aliases, aka: Alexander Andreyevich Archangelski; Arkhangelsky; (Russ: Александр Андреевич Архангельский) Country of origin / activity: Russia
		Text author: traditional Church Slavonic
		Arranger / Editor: N/A

PDF	MIDI	MP3	VID	First name	Last name	Birth	Death	Title	Voicing	Instrumentation
1	1	0	0	Alexander	Archangelski	1846	1924	Bogoroditsje Djevo	SATB	a cappella
1	0	1	1	Alexander	Archangelski	1846	1924	Bogoroditsje Djevo - Vespers 5	SATB	a cappella
1	0	1	1	Alexander	Archangelski	1846	1924	Hail, Theotokos - Vespers 11	SATB	a cappella
1	1	1	1	Alexander	Archangelski	1846	1924	"To the Mother of God, let us hasten"	SATB	a cappella

Available documentation:

Score: free download possibly in one of these books - score taken from YouTube video (see below)

Lyrics:

not available, see score

MIDI: not available (yet)

MP3: not available

Play / stop MIDI

Recording:

not available

Videos - posted on YouTube:

	Uploaded on Jan 12, 2011 Composer Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846-1924) Choir of the Publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchy Precentor Ariadna Rybakova Архангельский - Всенощная 5: Богородице, Дево, радуйся Хор Издательского отдела Московского Патриархата Регент - Ариадна Рыбакова
	Uploaded on Feb 16, 2012 Corale Chiara Stella, 10/12/2011, chiesa parrocchiale di Polpet - Ponte nelle Alpi (BL). Introduzione al concerto del Coro Castel di Conegliano Veneto in onore di Papa Luciani. www.coralechiarastella.it
	Uploaded on Mar 1, 2009 Hor pri hramu Svetog Djordja iz Beograda. Dirigent: Biserka Vasic. Koncert u umetnickom paviljonu "Cvijeta Zuzoric" - 06.10.2007.god. www.horsvetogdjordja.wordpress .com

Internet references, biography information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Arkhangelsky_(composer)
Alexander Arkhangelsky Alexander Andreyevich Arkhangelsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Арха́нгельский) (23 October [O.S. 11 October] 1846, Staroye Tezikovo, Penza – 16 November 1924, Prague) was a Russian composer of church music and conductor.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11239
Birth: Oct. 23, 1846 Death: Nov. 16, 1924 Conductor, Composer. As founder of the famed Arkhangelsky Choir, which he led for 37 years, he spearheaded a renaissance of Russian choral music in the late 1800s. Arkhangelsky was born in Penza, Russia, and trained as a choirboy there and in St. Petersburg. He began conducting at age 16. Influenced by the Nationalists, he believed his country's sacred music had become too "Westernized" and sought to revive its earlier repertory. When the church establishment resisted his attempted reforms he created the Arkhangelsky Choir in 1880 and toured with them from Siberia to London. This was the first Russian ensemble in which women replaced boys in performances of the liturgy, as well as the first to appear in concert venues. His compositions, all written for the choir, include a Requiem (1892), a Vespers, two Masses and some 50 smaller pieces, the best known of which are "The Creed" and "Holy Radiant Light". He also made arrangements of folks songs and romances. Arkhangelsky inspired such composers as Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Rachmaninoff to set Orthodox texts, while the ubiquitous secular choruses of the Soviet era were rooted in his democratic approach to musicmaking. He was no fan of the Bolsheviks, however, and after the 1917 Russian Revolution he emigrated to Prague, where he died. The resurgence of Russian church music in the 1990s lifted him from decades of undeserved obscurity. The complete recordings of the Arkhangelsky Choir (originally issued from 1902 to 1916) have been remastered and are available on CD, as are several of his original works. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)
http://www.nne.ru/news_en.php?id=344133
October 23, 2011 Today is the 165th anniversary of Alexander Arkhangelsky, an outstanding Russian composer of church music and conductor Alexander Andreyevich Arkhangelsky (1846 –1924), an Honoured Artist of RSFSR (1921) in 1880 organized in Saint Petersburg a mixed choir which sang a wide range of folk songs, choir music and music by modern composers. The choir was famous for its high musical culture. For the first time in the history of Russian church singing Alexander Arkhangelsky changed boys’ voices for the women’s ones. He composed two Liturgies, the Great Vespers, about 50 minor pieces of music, 9 Cherubic hymns, 8 Anaphoras and 16 hymns before the Holy Communion.

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