St. Petersburg Men's Ensemble

originally sung by antiphonal choirs. The first Antiphon is Psalm 103:1-6. Bless the Lord, O My Soul,.. who forgives all your iniquity,.. and crowns you with mercy and loving kindness...3. Dmitriy Bortnyanskiy (1751-1825), Sacred Concerto No. 3 "Lord let the king rejoice" (Psalm 45) (No. 71)4. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, "Our Father" (Lord's Prayer)By the singing of the Lord's Prayer the believers express a strong hope that the Lord will hear their prayer and give them daily bread for body and soul.5. Apostol Nikolaev-Strumsky (1886-1971) "The Great Doxology", A prayer during matins and Great Compline"Glory to God in the highest,/ and on earth peace, good will among men"6. Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Liturgy of St John Chrysostom,  Op. 31 "Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. 7. Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 The Eucharistic Prayer: "A Mercy Of Peace & We Praise Thee"8. Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846-1924)Choir Concert "Blessed is the man that hath understanding for the poor man and the pauper; in an evil day the Lord will deliver him." Psalm 41.2nd Part - Russian Folk Songs1. "On little mountain, on the mountain.... "arranged by Konstantin NikitinHumorous song about how a wife chastises her husband.2. "I'm alone when entering the road"Poem by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov A Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus.3. "Lapti" («The Bast Shoes»)In the village Olkhovka there lived a lad - Andrian, and in that village also lived Praskovia.Andriashka (nickname) fell in love with Parashka (nickname).La-di-da-di-da-di-da Expensive gifts he gave her: honey cakes and rams.La-di-da-di-da-di-da His Pop forbade him to marry. Poor Andriashka started to cry and Parashka started to bawl. Oh-sob-oh-sob-oh-sob-oh-oh4. "Monotonously Rings the Little Bell"The story of this song is tragic: In Siberia in 1852 they found a dead body of coachman who got frozen during a long road. There was a notebook with handwriting poems in his bag. Name of the author of the poems Ivan Makarov was not known during his life time. After a year since they were published the poems composer Alexander Gurilev) (1803 – 1858) wrote music for a poem what he liked the most.5. The Volga Boatmen Song – “Yo, heave-ho!”This is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev, and published in his book of folk songs in 1866. It is a genuine shanty sung by burlaki, or barge-haulers, on the Volga, Russia’s Mother-River. The burlaki are depicted in Ilya Repin’s famous painting, Barge Haulers on the Volga, which hangs in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.6. "By the long road" or "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian romance song "By the long road", composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.7. "I'll go out at the night on the field"I’ll go out into the field with the horse in the night,Quietly in the dark night we’ll go.Together we’ll walk with the horse in the field.8. "The Tula Harmonica"Humorous song which tells about two brothers who came from the village into St. Petersburg to purchase boats. One bought a boat with a hole in it; the other purchased a boat with no bottom...