Starting with the Irish premiere of Arvo Pärt’s Kleine Litanei, paying homage to a great theologian and thinker of the Early Middle Ages, the Irish Benedictine monk St Virgil, this unique recital continues with a selection of Russian Orthodox Church Music from the 17th to the 21st centuries as we visit the Russian masters and inhabit the world of church Slavonic with extracts from Rachmaninov’s  All-Night Vigil, and works by Bortniansky, Stravinsky and more. 

Performed with thanks to support from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Presented in association with Moving on Music, The Lime Tree Theatre and Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Programme:

Kleine Litanei —Arvo Pärt 

Blazhen muzh (Blessed is the man) —Kiev chant 

C17Dnes Christos (Today Christ is born)—Znamenny polyphony

Three Sacred Pieces—Igor Stravinsky

Slava otsu I synu (Gloria from Service in a Minor Key) —Vasily Titov

Ninye sili nebesniya (Now the Powers of Heaven)—Giuseppe Sarti

Drei Geistliche Gesänge—Alfred Schnittke

Da ispravitsia molitva moya—Dmitry Bortniansky

Glasom moim (Concerto 27) —Dmitry Bortniansky

The Vespers (selection) —Sergei Rachmaninov  

Chamber Choir Ireland

Paul Hillier – Conductor