'Bogoroditsye Dyevo'
From the album ‘A Double Celebration’

Composer Sergei Rachmaninov
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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Bogoroditsye Dyevo
This much-loved setting of the Russian Orthodox version of the Ave Maria text is no. 6 of the fifteen pieces making up Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, written in 1915 and proper to the close of Vespers on Easter Eve. Despite a flavour of Russian chant, the music is all Rachmaninov’s own (he admitted to using ‘counterfeit chants’ in several numbers of the Vigil) and it is quite typical of him in its lyrical resonance and fervent expressive depth.

LYRICS:
Bogoroditsye Dyevo, raduissya,
Blagodatnaya Mariye,
Gospod Toboyu.
Blagoslovyenna Tyivzhenakh,
I blagoslovyen
Plod chryeva Tvoyego,
Yako Spassa rodila
Yessi dush nashikh.
(The Angelic Salutation)

(Hail Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.)

A Double Celebration
A 55 track celebration to mark 30 years of the Cambridge Singers and the 70th birthday of John Rutter.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1981) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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