Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus)
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Composer: Sergey RachmaninoffConductor: Robert Shaw
Orchestra: Robert Shaw Festival Singers
Performer: Karl Dent
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Running Time: 63 unknown-units
Published: 1999
CD Release Date: 1990-03-15
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- Come, Let Us Worship
- 'Bless The Lord, O My Soul'
- 'Blessed Be The Man'
- 'O Serene Light'
- 'Now Let Thy Servant Depart'
- 'Rejoice, O Virgin'
- 'Glory To God In The Highest'
- 'Praise The Name Of The Lord'
- 'Blessed Art Thou, O Lord'
- 'Having Seen The Resurrection Of The Lord'
- 'My Soul Magnifies The Lord'
- 'Glory To God In The Highest'
- 'Troparia Of The Day Of Salvation'
- 'Christ Is Risen From The Grave' (Troparia Of The Resurrection)
- Thanksgiving To The Mother Of God
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Free Music Review: Robert Shaw does FAR better than some others would make it seem...
Hit: 5 Stars
Whoever said that this performance "sucks" and blatantly disregards/ignores the score is plain WRONG!
The same goes for those who think of it as "filth" in regards to its Old-Church Slavonic pronunciation - I'll in fact (having now heard the samples from Chjernushjénko and Poljánskiy as studiously as possible) go as far as to say that Shaw's choir is even BETTER than those two so-highly-acclaimed Russian groups in that field alone!! [Those other two choirs stray more into modern Russian than they ought to be (note the tenor soloists on both Poljánskiy's and Chjernushjénko's recordings in the "Nī'ñe otpushchájeshi rabá tvojegó" {movement 5} - they slur the "shch" sound into a regular Muscovite "sh" {St. Petersburgers still have the "shch" sound {e.g., "fresh-cheese"} clearly audible!!)! While we're at it: Old-Church Slavonic, although the mother tongue for Russian (and all the other Slavic languages, while we're at it!), is still NOT the same as Russian!!] Whoever wants to argue with me is promptly referred to the score as published by Musica-Russica Corporation - check their pronunciation guide at the back of the book and you'll see what I mean.
[While we're at it: let it be made very clear that I strongly deplore singing Old-Church Slavonic texts as modern Muscovite Russian the same way as one ought to when one uses modern-Italian pronunciation with Latin texts!!! I know this will make me even more unpopular, but neither practise is one I can accept to endorse!]
Otherwise, regarding the alto solo: having that part taken over by part of the choir-section is in all likelihood what the composer would have accepted as an 'ossia', just like he does for the tenor solo parts later on (which are quite beautifully sung, even if the sound may not be 100% idiomatic, which anyway is a matter of taste - personally I DO prefer it over the Russian equivalent soloists in that part). Secondly, the placement of the choir is indeed quite recessed, but at no point is the diction, the music or the outstanding choral sound compromised. Thirdly, the very slowness of Shaw's interpretation (compared to the samples I tried out of Cleobury, Rostropóvich, Chjernushjénko, Bórodina, and Poljánskiy) lends an air of deep mysticism to this work - and, following with the score (as well as having at least some direct knowledge of both Russian and - as in this case - old Church Slavonic {not to mention that in my former church yours truly was able to perform movements #6 and 9}) I see nothing otherwise disregarded. Overall it's a matter of taste: yes, there are parts I'll admit could be moved somewhat faster (especially IF in a drier acoustic); however, the overall achievement is utterly undeniable. Sure, go ahead and get at least one of the others (in the above list - or the undoubtedly other fine ones that are likewise acclaimed), but Shaw's recording most certainly has every claim to be an equal to those overall and deserves to be in every CD library.
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