CHANTS OF THE GREAT LENT

April 9, 2019 at 1:48 pm

Riga Orthodox Chamber Choir "BLAGOVEST" and conductor Aleksandrs Brandavs invite to the annual concert of the Great Lent Chants on Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 18:00 at the St. Peter’s Church in Riga.

The program of the concert includes traditional chants of the Great Lent, as Artemy Vedel's “Pokayaniya otverzi mi dveri” (Open to Me the Doors of Repentance), as well as a complete choral cycle of Pavel Chesnokov “Vo dni brani” (In Days of Battle), performed by the choir “Blagovest” for the first time in Latvia.

Tickets for concert are available at the sales points of “Biļešu serviss”.

About the choir

Riga Orthodox Chamber Choir BLAGOVEST from Latvia was founded in 1990 with an aim to popularize forgotten treasures of Russian sacred music, which makes the most part of the choir's repertoire.

The choir has wide range of interests: from monophonic neumatic chants, called znamenniy raspev, based on Byzantine church music up to contemporary composers’ quests of spirituality. Various secular compositions of outstanding Russian, Latvian, and Western composers are included in the choir's repertoire as well. Read more

CHANTS OF THE GREAT LENT

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