\n| <\/td>\n | Selections from Medieval Russian Vocal Art<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 1.<\/td>\n | Rejoices In Thee (Greek chant, female choir)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 2.<\/td>\n | Lo, Triple-Shining Light To Inflame Thee (Znamenny chant arranged for parts, mixed choir)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 3.<\/td>\n | It Is Meet (Byzantine chant, male choir)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 4.<\/td>\n | Angel Crying (Bulgarian chant, male choir, soloist: Dmitry Yegorov)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 5.<\/td>\n | 5. Miracle Great and Most Glorious (concerto for 16-voice mixed choir)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| <\/td>\n | Dmitry Smirnov<\/strong> (born 1952)
\nOur Lady’s Rejoicing In Sorrow <\/strong> (2001)
\nTo sacred texts.
\nChoral frescos for female voice, saxophone (soprano), and mixed choir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| \u00a06.<\/td>\n | Hail Mary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 7.<\/td>\n | Over The Hills Of Zion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 8.<\/td>\n | 8. Mother Mary Is Mother To Me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 9.<\/td>\n | 9. Our Lady\u2019s Dream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 10.<\/td>\n | Our Lady\u2019s Lament<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 11.<\/td>\n | Prayer To Our Lady<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 12.<\/td>\n | \u0421\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0438\u043a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| <\/td>\n | \n \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n \n \n\n\n| <\/td>\n | \nMusic of Dmitry Smirnov has been an integral part of Petersburg\u2019s musical life for many years. Most of his works are in demand with performers and can be heard both in and outside Russia, and his name has become to us a synonym of highest musical quality. The composer has created his own choral language based on deep strata of Russian music. Compositions by Smirnov always carry a powerful spiritual charge so much needed by us in today\u2019s world. They are a link between achievements of the past and music of today.<\/div>\n On one hand, Smirnov\u2019s opus is non-traditional in terms of its genre definition, and its textual base using both canonical and apocryphal plotlines from Our Lady\u2019s life and the Hail Mary prayer along with folkloric texts, and in the structure of its performers (choir, female voice – and saxophone). On the other hand, folkloric texts and chants have always existed in Russian culture in parallel to clerical ones, and are especially close to Russian popular perception.<\/div>\n Releasing this recording made at a concert, we would like to preface it not with an abstract from the composer\u2019s interview:<\/div>\n \u2014 E. N. Razumovskaya, a folklore researcher and long-time student of “sacred verses”, prompted the name to me. Although such texts construe the New Testament with much liberty, everything in them is Christian and true to the church. When I was looking for the most precise definition of the genre, I thought that the concept might be viewed as “the Passion”, understood as the Passion of Christ and Mother of God at once. If we read the words “I will put thy relics in a shroud \/ I will paint thy representation on an Icon”, and if all the subsequent events are forecast already in mother\u2019s womb, it can be understood just so\u2026 Surely the unknown teller did not know the Holy Writ by chapter and verse, but he did enrich it with many details in his retelling… Or maybe, he knew the Writ well, but it was his plan to choose a format much freer in terms of genre. I may be said to have followed the teller. Furthermore, this helped me to avoid certain parallels or analogy with well-known composers and their works.<\/em><\/div>\nSoprano saxophone added to the score may be nearly frightening at first, as you anticipate its sound unusual for sacred music to spoil the impression, but after a while you realize that its use is proper and even organic.<\/div>\n \u2014 More than that, I suppose there is still a reserve, if we are talking about this part. And this is not to break any traditions. I wanted to purify the nature of soprano saxophone, to remove undue features that have stuck to it by and by. This instrumental timbre has enabled communicating through sounds what she (Mother of God) is unable to say, setting up a multi-facet dialog between them… While the chorus creates an environment, rather than a background, for their dialog.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n 1. Hail Mary<\/strong>
\nHail Mary, full of grace.
\nOur Lord is with thee.
\nBlessed art thou among women,
\nand blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
\nJesus.
\nHoly Mary, Mother of God,
\npray for us sinners,
\nnow and at the hour of our death.<\/p>\n3. Mother of Mine, Holy Mary<\/strong>
\nMother of mine, Holy Mary,
\nPurest Holiest Virgin.
\nBright sun
\nPurest dove
\nMother of God, Blessed Virgin.
\nReady Helper,
\nWarm Defender,
\nDefend me, save, and have mercy.<\/p>\n4. Our Lady\u2019s Dream<\/strong>
\nIt was in famous Jerusalem town,
\nin that cathedral Holy Church,
\nI, Mother of God, did sleep behind the altar.
\nThough I, Virgin, did not sleep long.
\nI, Virgin, did have many dreams:
\nI dreamed I gave birth to thee, Child Christ,
\nAnd wrapped thee, Child, up in veils,
\nAnd enveloped thee in silk covers.
\nNext, miraculous son, I saw thy cross,
\nthy vivifying cross, my miraculous son.
\nLo, that mount called Golgotha,
\nand that holy wood called cypress,
\nwhere, child, thou art to be killed,
\nthy ribs pierced with a spear,
\nthy head broke with a club,
\nand that thou, Child, art to be blood-stained.”
\n“Needst not tell me, Holy Mary, Mother,
\nfor I have seen the dream long before,
\nand Mother, I can guess it myself.
\nThat I, Christ, am to be crucified,
\nspear-pierced through my ribs,
\nthat my head is to be broken with a club,
\nand that I, Christ, am to be blood-stained.”
\nMary, Mother of God, wept aloud saying,
\n“Child! To whom art thou leaving me,
\nto whose care art thou entrusting me?”
\n“I am leaving thee, Mother, to John,
\nto John, the Divine one, a friend, Mother,
\na friend to me Christ.
\nMother, it won\u2019t take many, or few days,
\nMother, I will resurrect on the third day,
\nMother, I\u2019ll be to thee from heaven myself,
\nand will take thy soul out of thee myself,
\nI will bury thy relics with the saints,
\nyea, Mother, with them holy Cherubim,
\nyea, Mother, with them glorious Seraphim.
\nI will put thy relics in a shroud,
\nI will paint thy representation on an Icon,
\nI will place thy image on the altar.
\nThey will pray to God looking at thee,
\nand they will eulogize thee, Mother
\nand glorify me, Christ, too.
\nPraised be thou, Christ our God,
\nNow and forever, and unto the ages of ages!
\nHe who knows this sacred dream,
\nYea, he who guesses this sacred dream,
\nYea, and he who follows this sacred dream,
\nWill inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n 2. Across the Hills, the Hills of Zion<\/strong>
\nAcross the hills, the hills of Zion.
\nAcross those hills, those hills so steep,
\nAcross an open field, in Holy Russia,
\nThe Blessed Virgin walked weeping,
\nNear her, three myrrh women screamed.
\nAnd she beat herself against the ground, and she nearly died.
\nWoe to me, Mother Earth, take me in.
\nOur Savior, my beloved and my hope,
\nWhy didst not thou listen to thy mother?
\nThou wast told to live forever,
\nNow thou art in for unfair death.
\nThou art spilling thy innocent blood,
\nArt leaving me, thy mother, all alone.
\nWho will care for me in my old age?<\/p>\n5. Our Lady\u2019s Lament<\/strong>
\nO my precious Son, my hope,
\nThou suffer\u2019st passions and death on the cross at thy own will.
\nMy heart is being tormented now,
\nMy flesh joints are falling apart now,
\nMy mouth is baked with blood now,
\nMy throat is barred with sorrow now.
\nO my precious Son, my joy,
\nwhy art thou leaving me alone here?
\nI would meet my death along with thee.
\nWho will soothe me now in my bitter tears?
\nNow the Simon\u2019s prophecy is coming true,
\nAnd its words are right.
\nAll the apostles have run away full of fear,
\nand of great horror,
\nleaving me alone here to weep\u2026
\nO my Son, who will help me in my tears?
\nArchangel Gabriel, wilt thou help me!
\nO my joy, thou art sunk into the grave.<\/p>\n6. Prayer to Our Lady<\/strong>
\nMary, my Mother and my Sovereign,
\nI deliver my soul and body to thee,
\nAnd my life and my death
\nand what comes after death.
\nAll I commend into thy hands.
\nO Mother of mine, cover me with thy virgin veil
\nand grant me the grace of pure heart, soul, and body.
\nProtect against all enemies by thy power.
\nO beautiful lily, Mother of mine,
\nThou art my ideal.<\/p>\n7. Glorification<\/strong>
\nSound the trumpet in a song to praise the special day of our celebration,
\ndissipating the dark and the light of advent shining brighter than the sun!
\nAnd everyone\u2019s Queen and Sovereign and Mother of God.
\nMother of everyone\u2019s Creator Christ our God
\nHearing the prayers of her unworthy servants, inclines to mercy
\nAnd graciously, invisibly, reaching hands to her Son and our God,
\nOffers a prayer for all Russia and promotes His righteous petition\u2026
\nO great grace of the Sovereign!
\nO great generosity of the Queen!
\nO great patronage of Mother of God,
\nHow she begged out her Son and our God
\nby advent of her honored image and above any word,
\nsaving the town and all people from disaster and death.
\nRejoice, the House of God and animated Temple of King Christ our God.
\nRejoice, outpouring of grace and bounties and God\u2019s design.
\nRejoice, haven of those applying to thee,
\nAnd of our protection and delivery and salvation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NF\/PMA 9926<\/h2>\nBarcode: 4607053326567
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