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Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil w/Ekaterina Antonenko

Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” was released on March 23rd. Maestra Ekaterina Antonenko, conducted the 52-member PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble, which sang the world premiere arrangement adapted for male choir, with Igor Morozov, Evgeny Kachurovsky and Alexis V. Lukianov as the featured soloists. The singers hail from Russia, Serbia, North America, and Australia.

The PaTRAM Institute All-Male Choir™ recorded the CD from June 22nd thru June 25th, 2022 at the Church of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, with multi-Grammy award winning production company, Soundmirror, led by multi-Grammy winning producer Blanton Alspaugh and multi-Grammy winning recording engineer, John Newton.

The reviews of the new CD have begun to be published and are stellar, even exuberant. Ralph Moore, of MusicWeb International said, “..this new version of Rachmaninov’s masterpiece is sung with great reverence and dignity; both the direction and the engineering are impeccable.” 

Alexis Lukianov, Founder and Chairman of PaTRAM Institute said, “It was so moving to be in the Holy Land to worship, perform and record Rachmaninoff’s beautiful music in Jerusalem and Gethsemane, as well as to sing and pray at the many sacred sites. This truly was an epic tour for our choir. We are overjoyed and humbled to visit the holiest of holy places."

The mission of PaTRAM Institute™ is to foster the authentic and original splendor of Russian Orthodox choral music together with its astounding spiritual depth, in both the English and Slavonic languages. PaTRAM Institute performs world-class, professional recordings in unique venues featuring its award-winning international ensembles; distinctive concert performance events; and educational programs.

PaTRAM Institute Male Choir:

More Honourable than the Cherubim

The Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute strives to present Russian Orthodox choral music in its highest possible form, uniting deep spirituality, a profound love for the rich traditions of Orthodox Christian singing, and an uncompromising standard of musical professionalism rooted in the great traditions of Russian choral composers. The 725-year-old Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign is one of the most ancient icons of the Russian Orthodox Church. This holy relic is linked with many important events in Russian history: repelling the invasions of the Tatars, the liberation of the Russian nation from the Polish-Lithuanian incursion in 1612, and the victory over Napoleon during the Patriotic War of 1812. The 2019 PaTRAM Institute Recording Project was to record the sacred works of Alexander Gretchaninoff, but as the project was in development, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral), First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, had granted his special permission and blessing to allow the 725- year-old wonderworking Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign to travel with the PaTRAM Choir to the recording location in Saratov, Russia. The timing of the recording also coincided with the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. In honour of this event, the repertoire was changed to a compendium of sacred masterpieces by various composers, glorifying the Most Holy Lady Theotokos. The album brings together singers from five countries, including an unprecedented nine octavists, to form the fifty-six-member international PaTRAM Institute Male Choir.