Rachmaninov - All Night Vigil 02 - Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Gospoda

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Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda (mvt 2 from The All Night Vigil) – Sergei Rachmaninov
Sung by ‘Viva la Musica’, East Midlands Chamber Choir
with Jess Williams, mezzo soprano

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[Recorded live in concert, Saint Andrew’s Parish Church, Jarrom Street, Leicester – January 2026]

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Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, popularly (though, some might say, erroneously) known as the Vespers, was composed in less than two weeks in January and February 1915; it is the culmination of Rachmaninov’s interest in Russian sacred music over the previous twenty years, partly inspired by Tchaikovsky's own setting of the same texts. Rachmaninov himself had stopped attending church services, but his setting nevertheless conforms to the requirements of the Church, with ten of the fifteen sections based on three types of traditional chant. The texts are written and sung in Church Slavonic, the language of the Russian Orthodox Church.

This movement consists of a truncated version of Psalm 103 (104), in which an alto solo
sings a melody based on Greek chant against a background of tenor and bass, alternating
with soft passages for soprano and alto. During this psalm the whole church would be censed.

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Text:

Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Gospoda blagosloven esi, Gospodi.
Gospodi Bozhe moy, vozvelichilsya esi zelo. Blagosloven esi, Gospodi.
Vo ispovedaniye i v velelepotu obleklsya esi. Blagosloven esi, Gospodi.
Na gorakh stanut vody. Divna dela Tvoya, Gospodi. Posrede gor proydut vody.
Divna dela Tvoya, Gospodi Vsya premudristiyu sotvoril esi.
Slava Ti, Gospodi, sotvorivshemu vsya.

Translation:

Bless the Lord, O my soul, blessed art thou, O Lord. O Lord my God, thou art very great.
Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Blessed art thou, O Lord.
The waters stand upon the mountains. Marvellous are thy works, O Lord.
In wisdom hast thou made all things.
Glory to thee, O Lord, who hast created all.