First Christmas Festival of Sacred Music begins in Moscow

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First Christmas Sacred Music Festival starts in Moscow

09/01/201104: 10

MOSCOW, Jan. 9 - RIA Novosti. First Christmas Festival of Sacred Music opens the performance of one of the oldest professional choirs Russia - Moscow Synodal the Svetlanov Hall of Music on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported the press service of the House of Music.

'The Synodal choir at the opening of the festival will celebrate the anniversary of the day, as it revived the blessing of the patriarch. Despite the fact that the chorus is valid for a year, he is one of the oldest professional choruses in Russia, has created during the Middle Ages "- said the representative of the press service.

The team will perform works by Rachmaninov and Kastalsky, spiritual music of contemporary composers (Metropolitan Hilarion (Alpheus), temples, Rybnikov). The concert program also includes a suite of "All the Sorrowful" Golovanov, never before performed on the concert stage.

The festival will last until January 23, during which time the House of Music will perform six leading choirs from around the world, three of them - the first time in Russia. This world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey (London), Choir St. Stephen Decani, "the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Three of Serbia (Novi Sad) and the Choir of Holy Echmiadzin (Armenia). Among the Russian participants, in addition to the Moscow Synodal Choir, Male Choir will perform Sretensky Monastery Choir and Academy of Choral Arts named Popov.

"Every concert of the festival is unique because it is the premiere - coming bearer of tradition, and no longer performs the music of his people as they are," - noted the agency interlocutor.

"The crown of the whole festival," the press service representative called the final concert, where the Choir Academy of Choral Art after Popov and Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra with maestro Vladimir Spivakov will perform music of authors from different Christian denominations - works of Bernstein, Stravinsky and Metropolitan Hilarion.

In addition, she noted that originally the festival was planned to address the Pontifical Sistine Choir singing, which for 12 centuries of its existence has never been traveling to Russia. However, and this time the festival will take place without their participation. According to the agency interlocutor, "House music for a long time engaged in negotiations, and even received a positive response, but in December they had changed the entire leadership, including the Regent, and they postponed the trip, though, and promise to appear in Russia in the near future."

The festival is timed to celebrate the birth of Christ and is conducted with the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill. Artistic Director of the Forum are the president of the Moscow International House of Music Vladimir Spivakov and the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion (Alpheus).

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