Today’s choice is a mostly homorhythmic setting of the Lord’s Prayer by an operatic baritone from St Petersburg, who was the son a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre and a Russian Orthodox archpriest. After the October Revolution he emigrated to Berlin and then to Paris.
The work comes from a larger work – like the All-Night Vigil – called the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, an important rite in the Orthodox church that was also set to music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grechaninov and Rachmaninoff amongst others.
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