Christmas Concert

PERFORMERS:
Soloists:
Maria Shuklina (mezzo-soprano)
Yegor Semenkov (tenor)
Ilya Mazurov (baritone)
Maxim Rannev (bass)

The Mariinsky Chorus
Principal Chorus Master and Conductor: Andrei Petrenko

PROGRAMME:
Dmitry Bortnyansky
Kontakion of Christmas (Today the Virgin...)
Choral Concerto No 6 Praise to God in the Highest

Alexander Arkhangelsky
Praise the Lord’s Name

Bless, o Lord, My Soul (Greek chant)
from the customs of the Court Choral Cappella

Stepan Degtyaryov
The spiritual concerto Today Christ Is Born...

Nikolai Kedrov Jr
Mother of God, Be Joyful

Stevan Mokranyats
We Sing to Thee

Pavel Chesnokov
Blessed Is the Man

Yakov Chmelyov
Praise to God in the Highest

Christmas carols:
The Everlasting God Is Born
New Joy Has Come
Heaven and Earth Now Triumph
Sleep, Jesus, Sleep

Sergei Taneyev
Serenade (to verse by Afanasy Fet)

Anton Rubinstein
Mountain Peaks (to verse by Mikhail Lermontov)
arrangement for chorus by Georgy Dmitrievsky

Valery Gavrilin
Evening Music from the choral symphony of-action Chimes

Pavel Chesnokov
God Is with Us, Op. 40, No 6