All-Night Vigil

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Charles Bruffy's two GRAMMY Award-winning choirs join forces for the first time since 2009 to sing the pinnacle of Russian sacred music, Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil. When the Phoenix Chorale and Kansas City Chorale sing side by side, they create a truly sublime sound-this is one musical experience that is not to be missed! The scheduled release date marks the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of the work given by the Moscow Synodal Choir on March 10, 1915. Review ------ "...the singers here are involved with the music and expressive, and indeed the expressiveness of the entire ensemble is what makes this successful. ...But the work has plenty of passion in the "intensity" sense, and is stylishly delivered in this , with a fine sense of choral balance and emotional commitment." --Infodad.com, March 19, 2015 ClassicsToday 10/10 "This new from Charles Bruffy and his combined Phoenix and Kansas City Chorales...stands both as the All-night Vigil's reference a stunning rendition a world apart from any other of the work and as a major achievement in the history of choral s. ...And somehow, the sound of this 56-voice choir, captured in Kansas City's Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle, creates a strangely affecting resonance, vibrant, timeless, eternally echoing. I have no idea how the performers and engineers achieved this sound- all other s of the work pale in comparison- but at least part of it must be attributed to the large and formidable bass section (16 voices), the nearly as large (15 voices) tenor section, and to Bruffy's insistence on giving full flower to the glorious harmonies to not rushing the tempo...But if ever there were music that compelled the performers to take time, to extend the breath, to be magnanimous with the phrase, to revel in harmonic resonance, this is it; and Bruffy has the will and the means (those 56 exceptional voices) to do it...you realize that there are not so many s, nor are there so many musical works that are able to hold you so thoroughly enthralled from beginning to end." --David Vernier, Classicstoday.com, 2015 "Charles Bruffy's of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil took the prize for Best Choral Performance." --Jay Gabler, Classicalmpr.org, February 15, 2016