Dostoino Yest - Tchaikovsky, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
11. 'Dostoino Yest'
From the album ‘Hail! Queen of Heaven’
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
Dostoino yest’ yako vo istinu blazhit’i Tya, Bogoroditsu,
prisnoblazhennuyu i preneporochnuyu, i Mater Boga nashego;
chestnyeishuyu kheruvim’
i slavnyeishuyu byez sravnyeniya serafim’;
byez istlyeniya Boga slova rozhdshuyu,
sushchuyu Bogoroditsu, Tya vyelichayem. I vsyekh, i vsya.
(Verily it is meet that we should honour Thee, O Virgin,
who art ever-blessed and supremely immaculate, and Mother of our God;
Thou who art more honourable than the cherubim
and incomparably more glorious than the seraphim;
Thou who art the undefiled giver of birth to God the Word,
and most true Mother of God, we magnify Thee. Amen.)
(Translation by Bruce Hamilton)
Dostoino Yest
Although choral music didn't figures largely in Tchaikovsky's output, he contributed to the repertory of the Russian Orthodox church with a small number of characteristic works, the most substantial being his setting of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom of 1879. Soon after this he wrote nine sacred pieces for unaccompanied mixed chorus, of which Dostoino Yest (1884) is no. 5. Its mood is reverent, its texture sonorous, revealing on a small scale Tchaikovsky's all-too-little exercised mastery of the choral medium.
Hail! Queen of Heaven
This recording, made in the architecturally and acoustically glorious setting of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral by the 28 mixed voices of the Cambridge Singers, gathers together 21 examples of the extraordinary wealth of choral music inspired by the Virgin Mary, from Gregorian chant to the 20th-century sounds of Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, Pierre Villette, Igor Stravinsky and Giles Swayne.
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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