Grechaninov A. Liturgia Domestica, CPH

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979-0-3522-0216-0 Grechaninov A. Liturgia Domestica for choir, soloists and piano. Op. 79, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

Alexander Tihonovich Gretchaninov lived enormous, even by today's standards, life. His Liturgia Domestica composer wrote in his family estate at Presnya during the October fighting in 1917. Cut off from the world, without light, water, food, friends, and by the light of smoky candles, he created the music of the fate of Russia, about his own life which was by a thread from death, and this music grows to global generalizations about the global flood and fault, dramatic, theatrical and expressive.
Premiere of the Liturgy in 1918, in frozen Moscow hall, passed unnoticed. Later, in 1926, in Paris, by the choir and Chaliapin, conducted by the author, it caused a storm of applause, in 1929 - with the triumph sounded at the Metropolitan Opera (New York). In Russia, the music waited for the realization a long seventy years.

CONTENTS
Grand Litany
Antiphons
Gloria and Unigenitus
The Thrice-Holy
After Reading the Apostle
Supplication Litany
Requiem and Other Litanies
The Cherubian Song
After the Cherubian Song
Credo
Pax hominibus
Virgin's Hymn
Pater noster
Laudate Dominum
Liturgy's Finale

Pages: 80.
Softcover.
Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg; 2008