Rachmaninov All Night Vigil 01 - Priidite, poklonimsia

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Priidite, poklonimsia (mvt 1 from The All Night Vigil) – Sergei Rachmaninov
Sung by ‘Viva la Musica’, East Midlands Chamber Choir
with Bishop Rowan Williams, cantor

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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.

The work begins with a fourfold call to prayer, in six and then eight parts.

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Text:

Priidite, poklonimsya Tsarevi nashemu Bogu.
Priidite, poklonimsya i pripadem Khristu Tsarevi nashemu Bogu.
Priidite, poklonimsya i pripadem Samomu Khristu Tsarevi i Bogu nashemu.
Priidite, poklonimsya i pripadem Emu.

Translation:

Come, let us worship God, our King.
Come let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King and our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before the very Christ, our King and our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before him.