The Orthodox Singers Male Choir - Basso Profondo From Old Russia - Before Thy Cross | Alexey Lvov
Basso Profondo From Old Russia
Standing by the Cross (Alexei Fydorovich Lvov)Before Thy Cross. Music by Alexey Lvov
The Orthodox Singers Male Choir, directed by G. Smirnov
A.F. Lvov (1798-1870) was director of the Imperial Chapel from 1837 to 1870 and a renowned violinist and fervent admirer of German music. He imposed this style on Russian liturgical music through the power of censorship he held over religious music publication. He selected this excerpt from the Wednesday matins from the fourth week of Lent because it resembled the Stabat Mater of the Roman church. In addition, he reorchestrated Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and arranged it for choir.
The Orthodox Singers Male Choir, directed by G. Smirnov has been founded in 1992. The best singers of Moscow churches and monasteries are invited here for taking part at the festive divine services and concerts.
The roots of Russian male choral singing can be found at the ancient tradition of the sacristan singers of the XVI-XVII centuries. They say that one of the first Russian choral works were composed by Tsar Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584), who being a great admirer of church singing, had founded one of the first Russian choirs named the State Sacristan Singers.
Occurrence of the Choir combining church service and public concerts, became possible when it began to be perceived in a society not only as members of the clergy taking part in divine worship, but also as the remarkable instrument capable to give new sounding to the musical works of the secular and church authors.
George Smirnov (b.1960), a professional choirmaster and precentor has been graduated with the first-class honours degree from the Gnesins State Musical College (1980) and the Moscow State Conservatoire (1985) upon completing his research on the history of the musical choral cycle of the Orthodox Liturgy.
Before he has founded the Orthodox Singers Male Choir, G. Smirnov was working for some time as a precentor at the several churches and as a choirmaster of some Moscow professional choirs, including the male choir of the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate and at the St. Daniel of Moscow Monastery. He also studied History of Russian ecclesiastical singing and published a number of collections of Russian church music. In 1989, G. Smirnov has edited and produced Rachmaninovs All-Night Vigil, working as an editor of the Music publishing house. This was one of the very first publications of Russian church music after seventy years of neglect.
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