Anatoly Lyadov: Choral Music

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1. The Hourly Prayer of St Joasaph Gorlenko (1910)

Ten Settings from the Obikhod, Op. 61 (1909)*


2. No. 7 Cherubic Hymn
3. No. 10 I shall take the cup of salvation

Five Russian Folksongs (1902)


4. No. 1 The Dove book
5. No. 2 Oh, Avsen
6. No. 3 You are my beauty
7. No. 4 I’ll go, young one
8. No. 5 At Dawn 

15 Russian Folksongs for Female Voices (1908)


9. No. 3 Now we have a drink
10. No. 9 As at the evening
11. No. 10 We, girls, would like to pour some horilka
12. No. 14 The valley

Ten Russian Folksongs, arranged for female voices, Op. 45 (1899)


13. No. 1 You, my river
14. No. 2 Oh, it’s not a sunset
15. No. 3 Birch forest, who’s a single man?
16. No. 4 White Snow
17. No. 5 I’ll sit down young
18. No. 6 The winds blew
19. No. 7 Along the steep coast
20. No. 8 Rain on the street
21. No. 9 That’s my grief
22. No. 10 Along the street

Three Russian Folksongs for Female Voices (1912)


23. No. 1 Hushaby
24. No. 2 The open field, you’re my wide space
25. No. 3 Oh, there was no wind
26. Glorification for Vladimir Stasov (1899)

Music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s Drama Sœur Béatrice, Op. 60 (1906)


27. I Beggars’ chorus: Ave Maria
28. II Ave, Maris Stella
29. III The Death of Beatrice: Requiem aeternam
30. Glorification for Vladimir Stasov on 2 January 1894 (1894)
31. Farewell Song of the Schoolgirls from the Empress Maria Institute, Op. 50 (1900)
32. Glory to Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1901)

Choruses from The Final Scene of Schiller’s ‘Die Braut von Messina’, Op. 28 (1878)


33. Introduction (‘Blessed is he who is in the quiet deep’)
34. Finale (Requiem)
35. Glory to Evgeniya Ivanovna Zbrueva (1913)
36. Fugato ‘Drip, Ek’ (1900)
37. Chorus from the Cantata to the Memory of Mark Antokolsky, Op. 47 (1902)
38. Slava, Op. 47 (publ. 1899)
39. Hymn to Anton Rubinstein, Op. 54 (1902)

ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS