Rachmaninoff Sergei - All-Night Vigil

Facts • The Grammy-Award-winning conductor Charles Bruffybrings together his two professional choirs, the KansasCity Chorale and Phoenix Chorale, for this recording ofSergei Rachmaninoff's All-night Vigil, a work that stands asthe crowning achievement of the 'Golden Age' of RussianOrthodox sacred choral music.• The recording follows live performances of the work by thecombined ensembles in April and May 2014.• The Phoenix Chorale and Kansas City Chorale are regardedas among the finest professional choral ensembles in theworld.• Their recordings have earned a combined total of tenGrammy® nominations and four wins.• Building on the success of previous collaborations, theseperformances marked the seventh time that the two choirshave performed together.• Of a 2009 joint performance at Alice Tully Hall in NYC, TheNew York Times' Vivien Schweitzer wrote that the choirs'performed with a buoyant pulse and energetic finesse', andpraised 'the choirs' refined sound and elegant phrasing'