Concerts for the choir of Dmitry Bortnyansky

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Bortnyansky's work marked the onset of the classical stage in Russian church music.

• Spiritual choral concerts (55 concerts) for the four-voice choir.
• Spiritual concerts for two four-voice choirs (12 concerts).
• One-part choral concerts for a four-voice choir, for two four-voice choirs, for a trio with a four-voice choir (about 30 concerts).
• Choral "laudatory" songs (about 10 choirs).
• Arrangements of church chants for a four-voice choir (about 20 arrangements).

Early concerts mainly form a three-part cycle, written in major keys, their melodics use the rhythms and turns of the minuet, polonaise, march; later concerts more often constitute a four-part cycle, they are dominated by a minor mode, polyphonic techniques and forms (imitations, fugato, fugues) are more developed, lyrical-hymnical beginning and elegance prevail, which is associated with the influence of the nascent style of sentimentalism, which was characterized by the genre of elegy.

In the Soviet period, Bortnyansky's spiritual music was either not performed at all, or overflowed. There were poets who, instead of the psalms on which his spiritual concerts were written, inserted poems about nature^[1]

No matter how the attitude towards these works changes over a century and a half after the death of Bortnyansky, they invariably occupy an important place in the history of Russian music, loved by both performers and listeners. Since the 1980s, they have been increasingly included in the repertoire of choral groups.

The State Chamber Choir of the USSR Ministry of Culture under the direction of Valery Polyansky became the most faithful and consistent propagandist of Bortnyansky's choral work in Russia, performing it from the first years of its existence. V. Polyansky's long-standing dream, which has become a reality, is to record all 35 four-voice concerts. A compilation with musical scores and lyrics was also released. The collection is based on the first edition of 35 concerts by D. S. Bortnyansky for a four-voice choir edited by P. I. Tchaikovsky. This edition - a choral score with a directorate - was commissioned by P. I. Jurgenson in 1881 and over the next year was published in a complete collection of spiritual and musical compositions by D. S. Bortnyansky.

Spiritual 4 Voice Concerts

State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia under the direction of Valery Polyansky.

Disk 1. Concerts for mixed choir unaccompanied (4 voice)

• Concert No. 1: "Sing the Lord's Song New"
• Concert No. 2: "Triumph today, loving Zion"
• Concert No. 3: "Lord! The king will be exalted by your power "
• Concert No. 4: "Exclaim the Lord the whole earth"
• Concert No. 5: "The Lord will hear in the day of sadness"
• Concert No. 6: "Glory to God in the highest"
• Concert No. 7: "Come, rejoice the Lord"
• Concert No. 8: "Your grace, Lord, I will sing for a century"
• Concert No. 9: "This day, God create the Lord..."

Disk 2

• Concert# 10: "Sing to our God, sing"
• Concert No. 11: "Blessed is the Lord"
• Concert No. 12: "God! I will sing a song to you "
• Concert No. 13: "Happy to God, our assistant"
• Concert No. 14: "I will burp my heart my word is good"
• Concert No. 15: "Come, sing, people"
• Concert No. 16: "I will ascend Tya, my God, my King"

Disc 3

• Concert No. 17: "If your village is beloved, Lord"
• Concert No. 18: "Good is the confession of the Lord"
• Concert No. 19: "Speak Lord my Lord"
• Concert No. 20: "On Tya, Lord, Hope"
• Concert No. 21: "Living in the help of Vyshnyago"
• Concert No. 22: "Lord enlightenment mine"
• Concert# 23: "Blissful Man Leading Exclamation"

Disc 4

• Concert No. 24: "Raising my eyes to the mountains"
• Concert No. 25: "Let's never keep silent, Mother of God"
• Concert No. 26: "Lord God of Israel"
• Concert No. 27: "My Voice to the Lord Appeals"
• Concert# 28: "Blessed Husband, Fear the Lord"
• Concert No. 29: "I praise my God's name with song"

Disc 5

• Concert# 30: "Hear God My Voice"
• Concert No. 31: "Celebrate all the tongues with your hands"
• Concert No. 32: "Tell me, Lord, my demise"
• Concert No. 33: "Sorry for me, my soul"
• Concert No. 34: "May God Rise"
• Concert No. 35: "Lord, who lives in your dwelling"

Concerts for two choirs (8-voice)

Disc 6. St. Petersburg, 1817-1818

• Concert No. 1: "Let's ruin You, Lord, with all my heart"
• Concert# 2: "Praise the Boys, Gentlemen"
• Concert No. 3: "Come and see the works of God"
• Concert No. 4: "Who will ascend the mountain of the Lord"
• Concert No. 5: "Heaven will tell the glory of God"
• Concert No. 6: "Who God Great Yako God Our"
• Concert No. 7: "Glory to God in the highest"
• Concert No. 8: "Sing up, people, godly in Zion"
• Concert No. 9: "Today bless the Lord"
• Concert No. 10: "May all human flesh be silent" (not included in the collection)
• Concert No. 11: "Establish my heart about the Lord"

6-voice concert "Godfather Ubo David"

6-voice: "Godfather Ubo David "//Choral and Regency. 1913 (attached to the magazine);