Event Details
Rachmaninov Vespers
Hosting Ensemble: Cascadian Chorale
Event Type: Concert
Event Dates:
Saturday, April 2, 2016Apr 2, 2016, 7:30pm at Church of the Holy Cross, Redmond, WA
Sunday, April 3, 2016Apr 3, 2016, 3:30pm at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina, WA
Description
Sergei Rachmaninov is best known for his works for piano and for orchestra, but he also composed one of the greatest works in the choral repertoire: his hour-long, unaccompanied All-Night Vigil, often called the “Vespers.” Written in 1915, it is the most beautiful blossom in the final flowering of the great Russian choral tradition in the turn of the twentieth century.