2005 - 2006

The 2005 - 2006 Season

West End Festival, June 2006

Glasgow’s Russian Choir gave a concert of Russian liturgical and folk music in Hyndland Parish Church on Tuesday 13th June 2006, as part of the West End Festival 2006. Click here for more details of the concert. The concert was repeated, with several more items added, In the West Kirk in East Kilbride, on 26th October 2006. A DVD has been created of the original performance.

Glasgow City Hall Concert, May 2006

Glasgow’s Russian Choir sang in the newly refurbished City Hall in May 2006.

Singing Workshop, Spring 2006

Glasgow’s Russian Choir ran 2 singing workshops in 2006 in Glasgow and East Kibride to introduce singers to the intricate experience of Russian liturgical music and folksong.

Highlights of 2005 -2006

6 Russian Orthodox services in Eastwood Parish Church, a multi-cultural service at St David’s Glasgow in Dec 2005,

The Big Saturday in Sept 2005 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, a St Andrew’s Night Concert Pollokshaws Burgh Hall - December 2005, and a free concert in Buchannan Galleries in January 2006

20th Anniversary Concert of Twinning with Rostov-on-Don - City Hall, May 2006

Concert in Hyndland Parish Church, 13th June 2006, as part of Glasgow’s West End Festival
The Russian Choir’s repertoire in 2005 - 2006

Nov 04 - June 05
Dec 05 x 2, 6 Jan 06, Feb 06, Easter 06, May 06
Saturday 2 Sept 2005 a.m.
Tebye Poyem
Rachmaninov
“Big Saturday” at SECC, Glasgow
K Bogoroditsye
Archangelsky
SECC p.m.
6 more items
Sunday 30 October 2005
Dostoyno Chant 8th Kievsky
Eastwood Parish Church
“A Mercy of Peace”
Rachmaninov
Pod Tvoyu Milost
P. Chesnokov
Liturgy no 17 “Blagosloven Grady”
Rachmaninov
“Lord’s Prayer”
Rimsky-Korsakov
“Mnogayo Lyeta” (For Many Years )
Friday 2 December 2005
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom :-
St Andrew’s Night Concert
No 11″Meelost Mira ” (Mercy of Peace)
Rachmaninov
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall
No 12 “Tebye Poyem ” (To thee we sing)
Rachmaninov
No 13 “Dostoino yest ” (It is meet)
Rachmaninov
No 15 “I dukhovy” (To thy Soul)
Rachmaninov
No 16 “Khvalite” (Praise the Lord)
Rachmaninov
No 17 “Blagosloven Grady” Blessed is He)
Rachmaninov
second half
A Mercy of Peace (Meelost Mira)
Vinogradov
Pod Tvoyu Milost
Chesnokov
Nunc dimittis (Ninye ot pooshcha)
Kievsky Chant
Dignity (Dostoyno yest)
Bortnyansky
K Bogoroditsye (Prayer to Mother of God)
Archangelsky
Rejoice, People (Raduitesya)
Sarti
Sunday 4 December 2005
same 6 pieces from 2nd half of
as above
Eastwood Parish Church
St Andrew’s Night Concert
Sunday 11 December 2005
K Bogoroditsye
Archangelsky
St David’s, Knightswood
Shchedrik
Ukrainian folk carol
Friday 6 January 2006
Rozhdestvo Khristovo (Psalm no 50)
Russian Christmas Eve
St. Friday
Turchaninov
Eastwood Parish Church
Tebe Poyem
Chesnokov
Dignity (Dostoino yest)
Bortnyansky
Otche Nash (Lord’s Prayer)
Rimsky-Korsakov
Shchedrik (carol)
Leontovich
Saturday 7 January 2006
Shchedrik, and other most familiar repertoire
Buchannan Galleries - free concert
Sunday 18 February 2006
Nunc Dimittis
Kievsky Chant
Eastwood Parish Church
Meelost’ Mira (A Mercy of Peace)
Vinogradov
Pod Tvoyu Milost
Chesnokov
Tebe Poyem (To Thee We Sing)
Chesnokov
Vzide Bog
Rimsky-Korsakov
Saturday 4 March 2006
Singing Workshop 1 - 4 items studied
Chaplaincy Centre, Strathclyde University
Sunday 23 April 2006
Razdelisha rizi Moya
Arbishop Nikanor
Eastwood Parish Church
Razboynika
M. Staritzky
Da Molchit
Arr. I. Solomin
Vzide Bog
Rimsky-Korsakov
Raduytesya ludiye
D. Sarty
Saturday 29 April 2006
Singing Workshop 2 - 4 items studied
St Leonards Community Centre, East Kilbride
Sunday 14 May 2006
Vzide Bog
Rimsky-Korsakov
City Hall, Glasgow
Dostoyno
Bortnyansky
20th Anniversary Concert of Twinning
K Bogoroditse
Archangelsky
with Rostov-on-Don
Shchedrik
Ukrainian folk song
Podmoskovniye Vechera
V. Solo’yov-Sedoy
Katyusha
M. Blanter
Sunday June 2006
5 items
Eastwood Parish Church
Tuesday 13 June 2006
Vzide Bog (God isgone up in jubilation)
N. Rimsky-Korsakov
“Russian Souvenirs”
Dostoyno (Dignity)
D. Bortnyansky
West End Festival Concert Milost’ Mira (A Mercy of Peace) M. Vinogradov
Hyndland Parish Church
K Bogoroditse (Prayer to Mother of God)
A. Archangelsky
as part of Glasgow’s West End Festival
No 16 “Khvalite” (Praise the Lord)
S. Rachmaninov
No 15 “I dukhovy” (To thy Soul)
S. Rachmaninov
No 12 “Tebye Poyem ” (To thee we sing)
S. Rachmaninov
Pod Tvoyu Milost’ (Beneath Your Tenderness)
P. Chesnokov
Tyebe Poyem (To Thee We Sing)
P. Chesnokov
Ninye (Dignity) Kievsky Chant
Raduytesya, lyudiye (Rejoice, people) D. Sarty
Shchedrik
arr. N. Leontovich
Belolitza (A pale cheeked Maiden) arr. A. Sveshnikov
Tonkaya Ryabina (The slender rowan tree) arr. A. Sveshnikov
Podmoskovniye Vechera
arr. V. Solovyov-Sedoy
Katyusha
arr. M. Blanter