Tag: Gregory Davidovsky
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Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and Orthodox Hymns
“[A]lthough the best-known Rachmaninov works are not uncharacteristic, they represent only one side of his musical personality. Some of his finest scores have nothing to do with the piano, or the orchestra, and ranking high among them are his two major religious pieces, the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, and the Vespers[,] … the culmination…