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This stunning CD of Russian choral music is truly an example of why a cappella religious choral music are still being performed hundreds of years later.
This is the first Kiev Chamber Choir CD and one of the first religious music CD released in Ukraine after USSR breakdown. Earlier it was impossibly to sing and record religious music in the communist and atheistic Soviet Union and unusual rendition of Sergey Rachmaninoff vesper “To Thee We Sing” will remind us about those times. Kiev Chamber Choir sings this vesper without words. Yes, it was impossible to sing religious music in the communist Soviet Union, but it was possible to perform music by Rachmaninoff, ONLY without religious words. It was the times and thanks God they passed.
The Kyiv chamber choir has only 20 singers, but what singers they are - big, marvelously focused voices, the kind that might easily hold their own on the opera stage but without the kind of operatic vibrato that can make an ensemble rattle, wrote Washington Post reviewer Joan Reinthaler following their performance at the George Mason Arts Center. "They can sing wonderfully clean unisons and the basses have low E's to die for," she added.
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author: Nicholas N.
Another Shining Example Why These Folks From The Ukraine Are So Sought For & Deserving Of ALL The Prestigious Awards Bestowed To Them... Heaven Can Wait, But You Can't Afford To Pass This CD Up... A Solid Performance Of Voice Patterns That Work Together So Sincerly... AWESOME Production...
author: Fokke
As a singer in a choir that has sung severalof these pieces, I loved finding this recording. It looks like this is one of the best recordings I have heard of this music: great singers, great recording! Absolutely recommended!!
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The Kyiv Chamber Choir was founded in 1990. Choir members include professional singers, graduates of conservatories and musical institutes throughout Ukraine. The Choir's major awards include: Golden Diploma at the First Robert Schummann Competition in Zwikkau (Germany, 1992); First Award at the Twelfth International Church Music Festival in Hajnуwka (Poland, 1993); Grand Prix at the Sixth International Choral Festival in Sligo (Ireland, 1993); Second Award at Langolen Interna-tional Musical Eisteddfod (Wales, 1994) and more.
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