Praise the LordAudio CD
This C D of Russian religious music of 19th and 20th century featuring rare Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky choral works will give you the answer why this choir was invited to sing during the annual V I P viewing of the Christmas-decorated White House. This is the first Kiev Chamber Choir C D and one of the first religious music C D released in Ukraine after U S S R breakdown. Earlier it was impossibly to sing and record religious music in the communist and atheistic Soviet Union and unusual rendition of Sergey Rachmaninoff vesper " To Thee We Sing" (track #3) will remind us about those times. Kiev Chamber Choir sings this vesper without words. Yes, it was impossible to sing religious music in the communist Soviet Union, but it was possible to perform music by Rachmaninoff, O N L Y without religious words. It was the times and thanks God they passed. " The Kyiv chamber choir has only 20 singers, but what singers they are - big, marvelously focused voices, the kind that might easily hold their own on the opera stage but without the kind of operatic vibrato that can make an ensemble rattle, wrote Washington Post reviewer Joan Reinthaler following their performance at the George Mason Arts Center. " They can sing wonderfully clean unisons and the basses have low E's to die for, " she added. The Kyiv camber choir major awards include: Golden Diploma on the First Robert Schummann Competition in Zwikkau ( Germany, 1992) First Award at the Twelfth International Church Music Festival in Hajn? wka ( Poland, 1993) Grand Prix at the Sixth International Choral Festival in Sligo ( Ireland, 1993) Second Award at Langolen International Musical Eisteddfod ( Wales, 1994) Grand Prix at the X X International Church Music Festival in Hajn? wka ( Poland, 1996, 2001)
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