Hymn (Rachmaninoff)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Subtitle: From Vespers, Opus 37

General Info

Year: 1915 / 2005
Duration: c. 2:25
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Choir
Publisher: Daehn Publications, distributed by C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Chant-like textures of the Russian Orthodox Church are infused with Rachmaninoff’s incomparable melodies. Exquisite music beautifully arranged for winds.

- Program Note from publisher

The All-Night Vigil is an a-cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, written and premiered on March 23, 1915, in Moscow.

The piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony. It has been praised as Rachmaninoff's finest achievement and "the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church". It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions along with The Bells, and the composer requested that its fifth movement (Nunc Dimittis) be sung at his funeral.

The title of the work is often mis-translated as simply Vespers. This is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work: only the first six of its fifteen movements set texts from the Russian Orthodox canonical hour of Vespers.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

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Performances

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California All-State Junior High School Symphonic Band (Danielle Gaudry, conductor) - 18 February 2018 (2018 CASMEC Conference, San Jose)
Field Middle School (Northbrook, Ill.) Band (Mike Miller, conductor) – 5 May 2017 (2017 Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Morceaux de fantaisie (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Deterling) (1892/2020)

All Wind Works

Andante Cantabile (arr. Custer) (1934/1995)
Bogoroditse Devo (arr. Genervo) (1915/2009)
Bogoroditse Devo (arr. Salzman). See: Three Vespers from "All-Night Vigil"
Morceaux de fantaisie (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Deterling) (1892/2020)
Chimes of Moscow
Concerto for Piano No. 2, Theme 3rd Mvt. (arr. Lang)
Evocation of the Spirit (tr. Singleton) (2017)
Glory and Honor (arr. Houseknecht)
Hymn (arr. Grauer) (1915/2005)
Italian Polka (arr. Leidzen) (1941)
Italian Polka (arr. Lucas) (1938/2006)
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor (tr. Oaks) (1901/2007)
Piano Concerto No. 2, Themes from (arr. Williams)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor (tr. Patterson)
Prelude in C minor
Prelude in G minor (arr. Lake) (1901/1922)
Prelude, Opus 3, No. 2 (arr. Longfield)
Rachmaninoff Prelude (arr. Cichy)
Rachmaninoff Prelude (arr. McGinty)
Russian Liturgy (arr. Singleton) (1910/1999)
Russian Polka
Suite from “All-Night Vigil” (Vespers) (arr. Juchniewicz) (1915)
Symphonic Dance Op 45 No 3 (arr. Satoh) (1940/1984)
Symphonic Dances, Op 45, No. 3 (arr. Lavender) (1940/2015)
Symphony No. 1 - Finale (arr. Hanna)
Symphony No. 2: Adagio (arr. Hanna) (1907/2013)
Theme from "Piano Concerto No 2" (arr. Bennett) (1901/1947)
Three Vespers from "All-Night Vigil" (arr. Salzman) (1915/2008)
- Bogoroditse Devo (arr. Salzman) (1915/2005)
Vespers, Opus 37, for Symphonic Winds (arr. Johnson) (1915/2011)
- Svete Tokhyi (arr. Johnson)
- Blazhen Muzh (arr. Johnson)
- Blagoslovi, Dushe Moya (arr. Johnson)
Vocalise (arr. Wheeler) (1909/2019)
Vocalise, Opus 34, No. 14 (arr. Hunsberger) (1909/2004)
Vocalise, Opus 34, No. 14 (arr. Roszell) (1909/)

Resources

All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff), Wikipedia Accessed 4 May 2017