Looking to summer – Copland
We had a break from Rachmaninov at choir practice this evening, and looked ahead to the biggest work for our summer concert, Aaron Copland’s “In the Beginning”. It’s a stunning…
Russian Art
Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Borodin, Chekhov, Mussorgsky, Dostoevsky and of course, Rachmaninov. Russian music and literature is adored across the world, but Russian art is less well known. Unless you’ve been to…
All-night vigil performed in liturgy
Some unusual video footage of Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil being sung liturgically, in the church near where he was born, in Moscow. It’s not sung in church very often because…