Sacred Treasures III: Choral Masterworks from Russia and Beyond

About: The fourteen selections comprising Sacred Treasures III feature music from the Russian liturgical canon recorded in sumptuously reverberant settings by leading Russian choruses. With a state-of-the-art mastering job to fully display the subtle harmonic interplay of the singers, this release offers pure balm for the ear and soul. The music covers a wide burst of historically important pieces, from ancient Greek Orthodox chant through early 20th Century choral masterpieces of Rachmaninov, plus one modern fantasy setting of Bach’s Apollonian masterpiece “Komm Susser Tod“ (“Come Sweet Death“) by Scandinavian composer Gunnar Eriksson. The collection opens with an anonymous 13th Century Russian “Alleluia,“ set in the calmest tradition of the Orthodox service, followed by a “Sourp, Sourp“ (“Holy, Holy“) from the Divine Liturgy. Both are sung by the ST. PETERSBURG CHAMBER CHOIR, directed by Nikolai Korniev. More familiar, perhaps, are the f