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The Clarion Choir makes a crowning statement with this beautifully recorded album of Rachmaninoff's great setting of Eastern Orthodox liturgical texts.
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Concert Review (NYC): Clarion Choir – Rachmaninoff, ‘Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom’ (31 December 2022)
The Clarion Choir's performance of Rachmaninoff's liturgical setting brought out its revelatory fusion of old and new – or what was new in the early 20th century.
Read More »Concert Review: Clarion Music Society, New York City, 9/22/2011
Early music fans are used to hearing sacred texts set to music, and the religion is, of course, Christianity. Except when it isn't.
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