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| BLAGOVEST Riga Orthodox
Chamber Choir Blagovest was created in 1989 and gathered professional musicians, graduates of the Academy of Music and Riga Theological Seminary. The basis of creative work of tlie choir is a rendering of Russian sacred music where the choir Blagovest if often a pathfinder restoring to life undeservedly neglected rarities of this precious cultural heritage of the Russian people. In the repertoire of the choir there are musical compositions of various genres : starting from the oldest, sometimes nameless, canticles based of the Russian znamennyi raspev [singing recorded not by notes, but by some special sings] whose history is running into thousands of years, and finishing with magnificent choral concerts created by the most outstanding Russian composers of the XIXth and XXth centuries. The high professionalism of the choir, the peculiar careful and lofty - interpretation of pieces of the Orthodox music have won a high appraisal of both music-lovers and art connoisseurs. With an immutable success the choir has performed not only in Latvia, several tours brought Blagovest in the Baltic States, in Belgium, France [Festival Eclats de Voix - Auch 1999], Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Germany. The choir 'Blagovest' became the prize winner of International Festival 'Slavyansky Khod' [Russia, 1990], won the First Prize and got the status of a choir of the international level International Youth Competition-Festival in the town of Kalundborg [Danmark, 1992], the XIIIth International Festival of Sacred Music in the town of Hainavka [Poland, 1994], International Polyphonic Competition "Guido d'Arezzo' [ltaly, 1995], International Choral Competition "Yurmala 98' [Latvia, 1996]. Since 1993 Riga Orthodox Chamber Choir 'Blagovest' has been participating in divine services in the Holy Trinity Church in Riga where the first CD has been recorded live [1997]. A second CD of Nabat, the men-choir of Blagovest, was recorded in Belgium [dk-studioDestelbergen] in December 1998. In December 1999 a co-production with the Jazepa Medina Riga Music College - Riga and the choir Beauvarlet - Koksij de (Belgium) was realized : West meets East, a confrontation of W.A. Mozart and D. Bortnyanski. The conductor Alexander Brandavs was the initiator of the choir and has been conducting it for al these years. He has graduated from the Yazeps Vitols Academy of Music [the Republic of Latvia] in the Conducting Departement under Professor Gvido Kokars. Since 1993 Alexander Brandavs has been the preceptor of the Holy Trinity Church in the own of Riga. |
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| Kurzprogramm Kategorie A: | |
| A. Schnittke | 2nd part of Concerto for mixed choir with the lyrics by Gregor Narekatsi |
| S. Rachmaninov | To Thee We Sing |
| Kurzprogramm Kategorie B | |
| E. Melngailis | Blow, The Wind |
| J. Graubins | The Forest Edge Was Dancing |
| V. Kaminskis | Oh, Trouble, My Big Trouble |