Moscow Synodal Choir opens the Christmas Festival of Sacred Music

First Christmas Festival of Sacred Music opens the power of one of the oldest professional choirs from Russia - Moscow Synodal the Svetlanov Hall of Music. "Synodal Choir at the opening of the festival is the anniversary by the time it with the blessing of the Patriarch again Though the Chorus for a year, one of the oldest professional choirs in Russia, was created back in the Middle Ages." - Said the representative of the speaker. The team will perform works by Rachmaninoff and Castalia, sacred music by contemporary composers (Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), whiskey, Rybnikov). The concert also includes a series of "Holy Virgin" Golovanov had never sung on the concert stage. Moscow Synodal Choir Festival will be 23 to Last January, and during this time the House of Music is leading six choirs from around the world, leading three of which - for the first time in Russia. This world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey (London), choir "St. Stephen Decani" Hagia Three Acts Serbia (Novi Sad) and the Choir of Holy Echmiadzin (Armenia). The Russian participants, in addition to the Moscow Synodal Choir Men's Choir will lead the Moscow Sretensky and Chorus Chorus Academy named Popov. "Each concert of the festival is unique, as is the premiere - come support the tradition, and no longer plays music of the people as they are," - said the agency interlocutor. "The highlight of the festival," a representative of the press service called the last concert where Chorus Chorus Academy named Popov and the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra with Maestro Vladimir Spivakov music authors of different Christian confessions is performed - the works of Bernstein, Stravinsky and Metropolitan Hilarion. In addition, she noted that the original festival planned speech Pontifical Sistine Chapel, which was for 12 centuries of its existence, it has never been in Russia. But this time the festival takes place without their participation. According to the source agency, "house music lengthy negotiations and even received a positive response, but in December they are all leaders, including the Regent changed, and they postponed the visit, despite promises appear in Russia in the near future." The festival is dedicated to the celebration of Christ's birth and is carried out with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill. The artistic director of the Forum, the President of the Moscow International House of Music Vladimir Spivakov and the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev). Synodal Choir, one of the oldest professional choirs in Russia, was founded in Moscow in 1721. Served as the basis of the Synodal Choir of patriarchal choir officials of the late sixteenth century. First, the Patriarchal choir will contain only male clergy. Until the middle of XVII century monophonic vocal later polyphonic choir began to sing the score, and thus appeared in composition childish voices (soprano and alto). With the abolition of the Patriarchate in 1700, the choir as "Cathedral" and were attached to the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin. After the establishment of the Holy Synod, in 1721, they were transferred to his office and was known as the Synod. During the XVII-XVIII centuries Patriarchal choir and in the future in relation to the Synodal Choir and crafts participated and were like "Moscow" parallel sovereign chorus employees, renamed under Peter I in the Hofkirche, to St. Petersburg. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the choir's repertoire by expanding into the secular music and arrangements of Russian folk songs. Many Moscow composer specially composed for the Synodal Choir. At this time, meaningful participation in the life of the choir and took Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After the restoration of the Patriarchate in Russia in 1917, the choir has expanded its already become a historic name. At Easter 1919, Kremlin cathedrals were closed Synodal School was eliminated, and ceased to exist, the choir. The work on the revival of the once famous throughout Moscow Choir began in spring 2009 with the appointment of Archbishop Hilarion rector of the Church "Holy Virgin Mary." His Holiness blessed the historical name of the Moscow Synodal Choir of the Church on the basis of the collective runs revive A.Puzakova.