The performance is spectacularly successful. Short paces the score superbly and his singers are with him at every turn.
International Record Review
Alexander Levine: The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Tenebrae return to the repertoire of Russian composer Alexander Levine. The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom is Levine’s most significant large-scale religious work to date. Inspired by the humility and humanity of the murdered Russian priest (and friend of Levine) Fr. Alexander Men and composed over a three-month period of spiritual immersion, research and contemplation (similar to that described by his great forebears Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov), the work traces a continuous spiritual growth towards the central point of the Liturgy – the Holy Communion.
Release Date: 11 March 2013
Record Label: Signum Classics
Catalogue Number: SIGCD316
Location of Recording: St Augustine’s Church, Kilburn, London
Total Running Time: 01:17:05
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| # | Title | Composer | Duration | Price | Listen | Add to Cart |
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| 1 | Introduction and Great Litany | Alexander Levine | 06:20 | £ | Listen | |
| 2 | First Antiphon | Alexander Levine | 04:55 | £ | Listen | |
| 3 | Second Antiphon | Alexander Levine | 02:59 | £ | Listen | |
| 4 | Hymn to the Lord | Alexander Levine | 02:16 | £ | Listen | |
| 5 | The Third Antiphon: Beatitudes | Alexander Levine | 04:47 | £ | Listen | |
| 6 | Entrance Hymn | Alexander Levine | 03:25 | £ | Listen | |
| 7 | Trisagion Hymn | Alexander Levine | 03:55 | £ | Listen | |
| 8 | Litany of Fervent Supplication | Alexander Levine | 03:32 | £ | Listen | |
| 9 | Litany for the Catechumens | Alexander Levine | 03:44 | £ | Listen | |
| 10 | Cherubic Hymn | Alexander Levine | 02:59 | £ | Listen | |
| 11 | That We May Receive the King of All | Alexander Levine | 00:55 | £ | Listen | |
| 12 | Litany of Fervent Supplication | Alexander Levine | 04:26 | £ | Listen | |
| 13 | The Creed | Alexander Levine | 05:31 | £ | Listen | |
| 14 | Anaphora | Alexander Levine | 03:49 | £ | Listen | |
| 15 | We Hymn Thee | Alexander Levine | 01:39 | £ | Listen | |
| 16 | Hymn to the Virgin | Alexander Levine | 03:19 | £ | Listen | |
| 17 | Litany Before the Lord's Prayer | Alexander Levine | 02:14 | £ | Listen | |
| 18 | The Lord's Prayer and Elevation | Alexander Levine | 04:26 | £ | Listen | |
| 19 | The Communion | Alexander Levine | 04:12 | £ | Listen | |
| 20 | Hymn of Praise | Alexander Levine | 03:41 | £ | Listen | |
| 21 | Thanksgiving and Dismissal | Alexander Levine | 01:54 | £ | Listen | |
| 22 | Blessed Be the Name of the Lord | Alexander Levine | 02:04 | £ | Listen | |
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The performance is spectacularly successful. Short paces the score superbly and his singers are with him at every turn.
International Record Review
Soaring, ecstatic and gorgeously performed.
BBC Music Magazine
This is singing of a very high order. They bring a quiet beauty of tone to the more reflective moments
Robert Hugill
The singing is immaculate and burns with conviction. It is, quite simply, superb.
MusicWeb International
it is very definitely an elaborate kind of music and requies a very high standard of performance. Tenebrae are the choir for the job: the sound, while perfectly blended, is also, paradoxically, clearly built from individual timbres, like a richly veined marble. It is surely just what the composer desired
Gramophone Magazine
Holy Week Festival 2017
Tenebrae is thrilled to introduce its inaugural Holy Week Festival, a partnership between the choir and St John’s Smith Square.
It has long been an aim of the choir to curate a series of concerts for Holy Week based around some of the most atmosp... continued