"" (Old Church Slavonic for " Bless the Lord, O my soul ") is a central text in the Eastern Orthodox liturgy, primarily known as the Second Movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37). Musical and Liturgical Context
: This movement serves as the introduction to the Vespers portion of the service. It is a musical setting of Psalm 103 (or 102 in the Septuagint numbering).
: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky also wrote a setting of this text in his own All-Night Vigil (Op. 52), which influenced Rachmaninoff's later work [ 0.5.26 ].
"" (Old Church Slavonic for " Bless the Lord, O my soul ") is a central text in the Eastern Orthodox liturgy, primarily known as the Second Movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37). Musical and Liturgical Context
: This movement serves as the introduction to the Vespers portion of the service. It is a musical setting of Psalm 103 (or 102 in the Septuagint numbering). blagoslovi_duse_moya_gospoda
: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky also wrote a setting of this text in his own All-Night Vigil (Op. 52), which influenced Rachmaninoff's later work [ 0.5.26 ]. "" (Old Church Slavonic for " Bless the