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Teach Me Thy Statutes

  • Teach Me Thy Statutes

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Catalog No: FR-727
Artists: PaTRAM Institute Singers, Vladimir Gorbik
Composers: Pavel Chesnokov
Release Year: 2018-12-07
Available Formats: Downloads, SACD
UPC/EAN: 30911272722
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Научи мя оправданием Tвоим

Pavel Chesnokov

PaTRAM Institute Male Choir

Vladimir Gorbik, conductor

Superb Russian Recording of Choral Music by Pavel Chesnokov!

Awards

  • MusicWeb International 2018 Recording of the Year
  • 2019 Best Choral Performance GRAMMY® Nominee

We are very pleased to present our first release in a new series from the PaTRAM Institute. The music performed on this recording of Orthodox choral music in the Slavonic language was written by famed Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944). Teach me Thy Statutes is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a highly professional group which is a collaboration of Russian and American singers. The male choir is considered by many to be the mainstay of traditional chant and Orthodox monasticism. PaTRAM Institute Singers and Reference Recordings are planning several more CD releases over the next 5 years with Dr. Peter Jermihov as artistic director and conductor. Alexis Lukianov, Founder, Chairman and CEO of PaTRAM Institute states: “I am very pleased that PaTRAM Institute Singers has partnered with one of the top labels in the classical music industry. We are excited about our newest prospects and opportunities to produce and distribute world-­class orthodox liturgical music.”

Teach Me Thy Statutes was recorded in Russia in July of 2016 in the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian Orthodox Church, at the Saratov Orthodox Theological Seminary. PaTRAM’s objective was to immerse the listener in the beautiful Russian monastic style of singing through its fullness and richness of sonority. Highly-esteemed conductor Maestro Vladimir Gorbik, whose pedigree is from the Moscow Conservatory and as choirmaster of the Holy Trinity—St. Sergius Lavra Representation Choir (monastery), skillfully unites strong musicianship with superb diction to a degree that is seldom heard outside of Russia, but which epitomizes the best traditional culture of singing in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Extra notes

This release was recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, whose outstanding orchestral, solo, opera and chamber recordings have received more than 90 Grammy® nominations and awards. For over 40 years, Soundmirror has recorded for every major classical record label, including Reference Recordings.

Hybrid SACD contains 5.0 and Stereo SACD and CD stereo

On This Recording

  1. Благослови, душе (Греческого распева) / Bless the Lord, O My Soul (3:07)
  2. Блажен муж / Blessed Is the Man (5:02)
  3. Свете тихий / Gladsome Light (2:46)
  4. Ныне отпущаеши / Lord, Now Lettest Thou (3:26)
  5. Хвалите имя Господне / Praise the Name of the Lord (3:01)
  6. Благословен еси, Господи / Blessed Art Thou, O Lord (7:50)
  7. Воскресение Христово видевше / Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ (2:56)
  8. Воскрес Иисус от гроба / Jesus Has Risen from the Tomb (0:57)
  9. Великое славословие / The Great Doxology (9:09)
  10. Благослови, душе моя, Господа / Bless the Lord, O My Soul (3:17)
  11. Слава...Единородный Сыне / Glory... Only Begotten Son (2:31)
  12. Херувимская песнь / Cherubic Hymn (8:21)
  13. Милость мира и Тебе поем / A Mercy of Peace and We Hymn Thee (7:13)
  14. Достойно есть / It Is Truly Fitting (3:23)
  15. Спасение соделал / Salvation Is Created (4:07)

Reviews:

“Really, this is a remarkable recording… Is there nothing this choir can’t do, no challenge to which they can’t rise? Of course, so much credit is due to Gorbik’s inspiring leadership, his devotion to, and affinity for, this music laid bare in every bar. In short, a fine start to what promises to be a most valuable and rewarding project. Intensely beautiful singing and sound; quite simply, choral albums don’t come much better than this.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International

“The PATRAM Institute Male Choir conducted by Vladimir Gorbik has just released a recording of Chesnokov’s music, and it’s breathtaking. … Many thanks to Reference Recordings (the Kansas City Symphony’s record label) for bringing this unearthly beautiful music out of obscurity for the world to enjoy. It’s a Super Audio hybrid recording, so if you have a Super Audio player, you will really be blown away by the power and profundity of this impressive disc recorded in churches at the Saratov Orthodox Theological Seminary in Russia.” —Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star

“In this twelve month period, we published more than 2400 reviews. There is no easy or entirely satisfactory way of choosing one above all others as our Recording of the Year, but this year the choice was a little easier than usual. … none stood as deserving of this accolade as much as the choral works of Pavel Chesnokov. All three reviewers who wrote about this recording nominated it as a Recording of the Month, unheard of in my memory on MWI…” —MusicWeb International 2018 Recording of the Year

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