The Russian Kontakion of the Departed | Committal Service for HM The Queen Elizabeth II

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  • The Russian Kontakion of the Departed (Give rest, O Christ)
    Music: Kiev Melody, edited by Walter Parratt (1841-1924)
    The Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
    Leitung: James Vivian (Director of Music)
    The Committal Service for Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
    TEXT
    Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy Saints: where sorrow and pain are no more; neither sighing but life everlasting. Thou only art immortal, the Creator and Maker of man: And we are mortal, formed of the earth, and unto earth shall we return: For so thou didst ordain, when thou createdst me, saying, Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o’er the grave we make our song: Alleluya, alleluya, alleluya. Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy Saints: Where sorrow and pain are no more; neither sighing but life everlasting.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 159

  • @karleinegraham446
    @karleinegraham446 2 роки тому +35

    The British Royal Family always make music selections from the roots of Christianity in Europe. I remember the Prince of Wales, Charles and Camilla using " The Creed", "I believe", in the Russian Orthodox Chant at the Blessing of their marriage at St George's Chapel so many years ago. Prince Phillip was baptized in the Orthodox Christian faith and it is obvious that the family is familiar with Orthodox traditional worship and music. This prayer chanted for the dead is very beautiful and heart felt. Eternal Rest Grant Unto Queen Elizabeth II, O Lord and Let Your Perpetual Light Shine Upon Her. May Her Soul And The Souls Of All The Faithful Departed, Through The Mercy Of God, Rest In Peace. Amen.
    From Jamaican in New York, USA.

  • @lexgrant
    @lexgrant 2 роки тому +132

    In Russian churches, this chant is the most common for memorial services. It differs only in that it is being performed much faster, almost in a reading. Now I listen to this singing and I'm amazed by the love and care with which this tune is performed. I mourn the passing of Her Majesty. The world will never be the same again...

    • @stephenhickman304
      @stephenhickman304 2 роки тому +2

      This is the Kievan version that could account for the difference maybe

    • @KarenSarkissian
      @KarenSarkissian 2 роки тому +7

      @@stephenhickman304 the Kievan version is actually sung in all Russian churches. We have pretty much Kievan in our churches

    • @lexgrant
      @lexgrant 2 роки тому +16

      @@stephenhickman304 This is definitely not the case, because this chant is being sung in Kiev and in Moscow exactly the same way. Here, most likely, there is an arrangement of the English author, made with respect and love for the source material.

    • @jelenaminja4767
      @jelenaminja4767 2 роки тому +17

      In every Orthodox church funeral service...

    • @2323ace2323
      @2323ace2323 2 роки тому +3

      It’s Kyiv, Ukraine! Writing Kiev (the russian spelling) makes other believe that you are pro-putin and support the war that russia started.

  • @valiandrei6743
    @valiandrei6743 2 роки тому +43

    If this does not play at my funeral, I'm not dying!

    • @dc10fomin65
      @dc10fomin65 2 роки тому

      That means you are living forever, why die, do you know count Vlad? He is Orthodox, and still roams the world, some call him Dracula!

  • @deanna0710
    @deanna0710 2 роки тому +58

    One thing is for sure, The British really know how to do it and do it so eloquently and beautifully! I would be so very, very proud to be a UK citizen. What an experience to view such a display of love. It was just perfect. A touch of heaven!!

    • @natalienebesny2421
      @natalienebesny2421 2 роки тому

      Kyivan chant not from russia

    • @ЛарисаКуликова-м8м
      @ЛарисаКуликова-м8м 2 роки тому +5

      @@natalienebesny2421 из России...когда это создавалось это была единая Российская империя.

    • @Magdalen2255
      @Magdalen2255 2 роки тому +5

      If going by this piece specifically, then it's actually the Russians who really know how to do it eloquently and beautifully. And, even more specifically, the Orthodox.

    • @timmymess4742
      @timmymess4742 2 роки тому +4

      @@Magdalen2255 Arranged by a British musician. Performed by a British choir. You can decry much about Britain but not the glory of its choral tradition.

    • @stephenhickman304
      @stephenhickman304 2 роки тому +3

      Thank you Deanna and we are very proud that we could say goodbye so beautifully to our beloved Queen.

  • @meda1451
    @meda1451 2 роки тому +76

    Со святыми упокой, Христе, душу раба Твоего, идеже несть болезнь, ни печаль, ни воздыхание, но жизнь безконечная.

    • @meda1451
      @meda1451 2 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/mQeom1eefPk/v-deo.html

    • @merlinstwin7373
      @merlinstwin7373 2 роки тому +2

      Memory eternal

    • @david29262
      @david29262 2 роки тому +3

      This is such a beautiful song

    • @BillSikes.
      @BillSikes. Місяць тому

      Thank you friend ☦️🙏

  • @vanessawaller5492
    @vanessawaller5492 2 роки тому +76

    This brought me to tears in an unexpected way. So haunting and with the long shots of the gothic architecture just really hit me with heaviness but honor for being able be part of the live showing. God bless Her Majesty.

    • @john45280
      @john45280 2 роки тому +3

      Russian Church chants are absolutely gorgeous!

    • @paragonf
      @paragonf 2 роки тому

      ... felt very similar. Ache of heart and soul. I am out of words.

  • @norlington2
    @norlington2 2 роки тому +24

    This .music was arranged for an Anglican choir by Sir Walter Parratt, who was the organist at St George's in the 1890s. It was first used at a British royal funeral for Prince Henry of Battenburg in 1894, also for Queen Alexandra in 1925 and Winston Churchill in 1965 as well as Prince Philip and the Queen.

    • @orlandofurioso2034
      @orlandofurioso2034 2 роки тому +4

      thank you! did not know it was performed at Churchill's funerals too.

  • @dc10fomin65
    @dc10fomin65 2 роки тому +60

    This is always sung in Russian Orthodox funerals it means " Eternal Memory " my parents passed years ago, I still remember the choral in church singing this, very beautiful!

    • @harrycane1815
      @harrycane1815 2 роки тому

      «Русские называют всё русское славянским, чтобы потом назвать всё славянское русским»
      ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BA-%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB

    • @timothynelson5009
      @timothynelson5009 2 роки тому +10

      Eternal memory for your parents. We also sing this for the departed faithful in the Antiochian Orthodox Church based in England. It always hits when me I hear it sung.

    • @dc10fomin65
      @dc10fomin65 2 роки тому +7

      @@timothynelson5009 I heard this hymn first at Prince Phillip funeral, I thought I was hearing things, a Russian piece in a British service, what? Then again at the Queen's services, I thought, it is true, wow, and it was just beautiful. I must assume there has to be some past relationship between the British monarchy and Tsarist Russia in the past, right? Regards from Chicago.

    • @faerieliana
      @faerieliana 2 роки тому +6

      ​@@dc10fomin65 Prince Philip is a greek and was baptised in the Greek Orthodox Church.
      + Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia his paternal grandmother and the last tsar of Russia Nicholas II his great grandfather

    • @Roheryn100
      @Roheryn100 2 роки тому +4

      @@dc10fomin65 I suspect Queen Alexandra first heard it when she went to Russia as Princess of Wales for the funeral of her brother in law, Alexander III, who was married to her sister.

  • @bernadineplaten2999
    @bernadineplaten2999 2 роки тому +27

    I remember this from the beginning of the film Dr. Zhivago when the child Yuri‘s mother is buried. The melody haunts me to this day.

    • @chrispalo5122
      @chrispalo5122 2 роки тому +6

      I had to go back to watch the opening scene of Dr. Zhivago to confirm this. It's been years since I last saw it .

    • @srismith5071
      @srismith5071 2 роки тому +3

      Wow. I didn’t know it was in that movie.

    • @archiebald4717
      @archiebald4717 2 роки тому +3

      That film haunts me to this day. Such beauty, such tragedy.

    • @david29262
      @david29262 2 роки тому +1

      They play it at the end of Chernobyl for doc. When they explain the huge impact.

  • @fernandoherrero431
    @fernandoherrero431 2 роки тому +31

    Once in a while, music catches you in unexpected ways and it teaches you what words can't.

  • @clivedytor2069
    @clivedytor2069 5 днів тому

    The Orthodox have a depth which is unparalleled from centuries of suffering. Fr Clive ( Catholic priest).

  • @stevenclark7600
    @stevenclark7600 2 роки тому +76

    İ am a rock ,metal fan,and have to say,this is absolutley beautiful beyond discription.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 2 роки тому

      Don’t you know that some of the most gorgeous music ever written was written for the Christian church, wherever it took hold and flourished? This is Greek Orthodox music, but composers and musicians from the very early Middle Ages either worked for the Church (including all countries wi the Catholic and later Protestant, and Eastern and Greek Orthodox), or they worked for royalty and possibly by rich courtiers, and the music is _phenomenally beautiful!_ And later on, of course, everything that came after that period through the 20th century was phenomenal! The only barriers we have in our mind were placed there by US, and typically those barriers aren’t based on anything at all except our own prejudices! So I hope you’ll try more than just rock and heavy metal! Your would need beauty, too!

    • @SS-je9ue
      @SS-je9ue 2 роки тому

      @@voraciousreader3341 Hmm. My personal experience with this specific melody and of course words has been in the tradition of the Slavic Orthodox people's - Russians, Ukrainians, Romanians, Serbian, etc.

  • @zatoichison6420
    @zatoichison6420 2 роки тому +18

    This song gave me peace and make me fill than Our Lord Jesus Christ is closed to me, touching me, accepting me !! God bless you all !!

  • @petersebastion7596
    @petersebastion7596 2 роки тому +16

    Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy saints:
    where sorrow and pain are no more;
    neither sighing but life everlasting.
    Thou only art immortal, the creator and maker of man:
    and we are mortal formed from the dust of the earth,
    and unto earth shall we return:
    for so thou didst ordain,
    when thou created me saying:
    “Dust thou art und unto dust shalt thou return.”
    All we go down to the dust;
    and weeping o’er the grave we make our song:
    Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

  • @stephenvanas4580
    @stephenvanas4580 3 місяці тому +3

    Extremely moving, ethereal. The choir conveys the mood exceptionally well and is to be commended.

  • @outrunsynthwave9425
    @outrunsynthwave9425 2 роки тому +32

    God bless this world and all its inhabitants. ❤

  • @dc10fomin65
    @dc10fomin65 5 місяців тому +2

    I am back here once again as my dear girlfriend of 14 years passed recently leaving a great void in my life and heart, just looking for some relief and tranquility so I can move on, RIP lovely and dearest Barbara, memory eternal.

  • @simmysommy
    @simmysommy 2 роки тому +8

    Beautiful, I shed a tear of no shame but pride for my Queen

  • @znovosad555
    @znovosad555 2 роки тому +31

    “Maybe we all won’t become Orthodox, but there has to be some Orthodoxy in every denomination”
    -Fr Seraphim Cardoza
    I truly felt this when I heard this. If you weren’t watching and only listening you wouldn’t know it wasn’t in an Orthodox Church. ☦️

    • @benedict7345
      @benedict7345 2 роки тому

      As a ex orthodox myself not just orthodox chant like this maybe touch grass

    • @mariorizkallah5383
      @mariorizkallah5383 2 роки тому +1

      @@benedict7345 Lord have mercy

    • @mariorizkallah5383
      @mariorizkallah5383 2 роки тому +1

      There isn’t some Orthodoxy in every denomination, what counsel has Light with darkness?

    • @znovosad555
      @znovosad555 2 роки тому +2

      @Mario Rizkallah it basically means the need to come back to orthodoxy. But not everyone will, and over time you might find some orthodoxy within every denomination as more people see the light.

  • @jos6232
    @jos6232 2 роки тому +15

    May she rest in Heaven

  • @00lh02
    @00lh02 2 роки тому +27

    I'd never heard this before, being a classical violinist since I was four. I've listened to many recordings since and none give as much meaning. The choir should be applauded.

  • @UrielRw86
    @UrielRw86 2 роки тому +29

    Awesome Russian Orthodox hymn

  • @МаринаАкимова-к7ж
    @МаринаАкимова-к7ж 2 роки тому +11

    when listening to this I seem to believe in life everlasting. God bless you guys

  • @paulaarmstrong8431
    @paulaarmstrong8431 2 роки тому +7

    I cried during this part of the service.

  • @615855
    @615855 2 роки тому +22

    This hymn was a truly beautiful addition to the service for the committal to burial for the Queen. The choir was fantastic.

    • @natalienebesny2421
      @natalienebesny2421 2 роки тому +1

      Kyiv Chant not russian

    • @AlexanderSergeevRus
      @AlexanderSergeevRus 2 роки тому +1

      @@natalienebesny2421 Heresy :)

    • @archiebald4717
      @archiebald4717 2 роки тому +1

      @@natalienebesny2421 At the time it was written, it was indeed Russian.

    • @PavelBader
      @PavelBader 2 роки тому

      @@natalienebesny2421 you spell “Kiev” wrong

  • @mariadavis691
    @mariadavis691 2 роки тому +11

    Carstvo Nebesnoe, Vechnaj Pamjt' vasha velichestva!

  • @johansiren510
    @johansiren510 2 роки тому +11

    Goosebumps... So haunting and powerful. This brought me to tears.

  • @almutbelmain3711
    @almutbelmain3711 2 роки тому +24

    Thank you Ma'am. For everything.

  • @c-historia
    @c-historia 2 роки тому +6

    what excellent music, performed with fantastic solemnity!

  • @allanagorodna3887
    @allanagorodna3887 2 роки тому +22

    Очень красиво и трогательно....

  • @MaskedViolinist07
    @MaskedViolinist07 2 роки тому +12

    Memory eternal, your Majesty. You will live on in the hearts of many. ❤

  • @mlgregory2002
    @mlgregory2002 2 роки тому +10

    Memory eternal!

  • @stephenhickman304
    @stephenhickman304 2 роки тому +8

    Fabulous breathtaking and absolutely the right music for this most solemn of occasions. R.I.P My Queen

  • @myrabell4784
    @myrabell4784 2 роки тому +3

    Ces chants sont toujours si beaux...

  • @Ekaterina_BezB
    @Ekaterina_BezB 2 роки тому +13

    Очень неожиданно.

  • @motzoh
    @motzoh 2 роки тому +5

    Memory Eternal. ☦

  • @Hephzibah50
    @Hephzibah50 2 роки тому +14

    Absolutely wonderful.

  • @legocommanderfox55
    @legocommanderfox55 2 роки тому +4

    Sublime and hauntingly beautiful.

  • @patriziaprovini4156
    @patriziaprovini4156 2 роки тому +3

    Absolutey broke down when I heard this during the service. Superbly performed and totally heart wrenching. I wouldn't have been able to hold it together had I been there in person. Still makes my cry now. God bless the Queen, for sure there will no other monarch quite like her.

  • @elizabethmayrose8521
    @elizabethmayrose8521 2 роки тому +5

    Beautifully sung. Very moving.

  • @ПётрМиков-у6с
    @ПётрМиков-у6с Рік тому

    In blessed repose, grant, O Lord, to your departed servant, Queen Elizabeth, eternal rest, and grant her eternal remembrance. 🇬🇧

  • @CatharinaMaria08
    @CatharinaMaria08 2 роки тому +4

    What a beautiful and serene song.

  • @dirkvaningelgem4389
    @dirkvaningelgem4389 Рік тому

    when you are in difficult time, listen to this!

  • @Virgo1994-l8f
    @Virgo1994-l8f 2 роки тому +14

    Beautiful ❤🙏

    • @natalienebesny2421
      @natalienebesny2421 2 роки тому

      Kyivan not russian

    • @benlobanov9934
      @benlobanov9934 2 роки тому +3

      @@natalienebesny2421 Have some respect and learn history, this is not the time.

  • @deev3282
    @deev3282 Рік тому

    So beautiful & very moving. This is exceptionally fine choral singing by the Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel Windsor.

  • @suzannepountney7835
    @suzannepountney7835 2 роки тому +16

    Beautiful

  • @makloch
    @makloch 2 роки тому +3

    Memory Eternal Madam!🙏

  • @angelajung2194
    @angelajung2194 2 роки тому +5

    Engelsgleich!

  • @orlandofurioso2034
    @orlandofurioso2034 2 роки тому +7

    so moving and so beautifully performed....

  • @declanthomas1996
    @declanthomas1996 2 роки тому +2

    Rest in peace you’re majesty

  • @conductorjohnmthtrains2239
    @conductorjohnmthtrains2239 2 роки тому +2

    Brings me to tears, most beautiful ever!

  • @griffithsbean2829
    @griffithsbean2829 2 роки тому +1

    Very fitting song for our queen rest in peace your majesty

  • @gaggymott9159
    @gaggymott9159 2 роки тому +1

    Simply beautiful. 😔❤

  • @agnessngulube9206
    @agnessngulube9206 2 роки тому +2

    Absolutely beautiful ❤️ music

  • @markmalbone1147
    @markmalbone1147 2 роки тому +1

    Exquisite

  • @marcbahn5487
    @marcbahn5487 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for being one of the few who will include 'Russian' in the title. Nothing but disgust for all others.

  • @ballaam1
    @ballaam1 2 роки тому +2

    Magnificent

  • @1997dree
    @1997dree 2 роки тому +3

    So beautiful ❤️

  • @aruvielevenstar3944
    @aruvielevenstar3944 2 роки тому +2

    So beautiful 😢❤️🙏🏻

  • @NurseInMichigan
    @NurseInMichigan 2 роки тому +10

    This haunting and beautiful song was used in the opening scene of the movie “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), when a young Yuri Zhivago watches his mother’s burial.

    • @dc10fomin65
      @dc10fomin65 2 роки тому +3

      You're too young to know this , tell me the truth, did you Google it, if so, I'm disappointed in you, but C'est la vie, I saw Dr. Zhivago back in 1965 in Chicago, and I remember that scene.

    • @NurseInMichigan
      @NurseInMichigan 2 роки тому +3

      :) I too saw the movie in 1965 (in Detroit) as an impressionable teenaged girl. I loved it, and this chant drew me back to that moment in time. So nice to know that someone else was enchanted by it. ❤️

    • @dc10fomin65
      @dc10fomin65 2 роки тому +3

      @@NurseInMichigan I am so proud of you, good old Detroit , 2 mile rd, 7 mile rd, I am familiar because my folks were Russian Orthodox, and the church choir sang this at their funerals. Detroit is familiar to me I was AT&T project manager for G1 Wireless Telecom in Detroit beginning in 1992, many memories, may drives looking for places to install towers. I talk too much, don't drive too fast on Woodward Ave! Best regards to you.

    • @dmcorrigan
      @dmcorrigan 2 роки тому +4

      Also sung by the parish choir in The Deer Hunter film

    • @Roheryn100
      @Roheryn100 2 роки тому +4

      Also in the Russian 1968 War and Peace, when Kutuzov kneels before the icon.

  • @503WE
    @503WE 2 роки тому +1

    Essa é uma boa música

  • @MrJhernandez2009
    @MrJhernandez2009 2 роки тому +1

    bellisimo

  • @georgeavraam1069
    @georgeavraam1069 2 роки тому +2

    This kontakion is common in all the orthodox churches .

  • @gpcrawford8353
    @gpcrawford8353 2 роки тому

    This chant was used in the film Dr Zhivago.

  • @OurSeaBee
    @OurSeaBee 2 роки тому +7

    This is the 19th century version of the melody, tweaked to make it diatonic. The original has no sharpened 7th in the scale - the second note of the melody would be a natural note, not a sharpened one.

    • @chrispalo5122
      @chrispalo5122 2 роки тому

      The influence of the Jesuits in Russia and Ukraine thanks to tsars Peter the Great and Catherine II. And that's not a compliment.

    • @131alexa
      @131alexa 2 роки тому +2

      Interesting

  • @AbolishStakeout
    @AbolishStakeout 2 роки тому +1

    If I'm Harald V, I'd want Panis Angelicus played at my funeral.

  • @jeffthomas2364
    @jeffthomas2364 Рік тому

    This wasn’t sung for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, it was Prince Philip’s funeral.

    • @michaelmontagu3979
      @michaelmontagu3979 Рік тому +2

      This is The Queen's funeral. Remember that there was only a congregation of 30, with 4 choir members in the nave. Prince Philip had his own standard on the coffin, not the Sovereign's.

  • @mikeq7134
    @mikeq7134 3 місяці тому

    They need deep Russian basses to sing that properly

  • @Korivassilyou
    @Korivassilyou Рік тому

    It is a Slavic Kondak, sung at Ukrainian panakhyda services as well. I have heard it so many times in my church. Tears well up. This is the most beautiful funeral chant. Remember that Kyiv is in Ukraine.

  • @Paul-py2pg
    @Paul-py2pg 2 роки тому +2

    And according to Putin, we in the West have no respect for Russian cultural traditions.... Mind you, given that the melody originated in Ukraine, he would probably use it as a justification for his argument that because Ukraine and Russia were once one country, they should be so again. Perhaps someone had better inform him that France and Germany were once one country, but no one suggests they are today! Mr Putin, why can't you see that time has moved on?

    • @orlandofurioso2034
      @orlandofurioso2034 2 роки тому +12

      no need to politicise at least here. Moreover, this chant was created centuries before even the term 'Ukrainian' was coined.

    • @leoiwaskiw4051
      @leoiwaskiw4051 2 роки тому

      @@orlandofurioso2034 This is a Kyivan chant. Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine. Enough now of Russia stealing Ukrainian history and culture.

    • @orlandofurioso2034
      @orlandofurioso2034 2 роки тому

      @@leoiwaskiw4051 there is nothing to steal as it is a formative part of the Russian culture. Ukrainian culture has its own distinctive autonomous character.

  • @stlouisix1
    @stlouisix1 2 роки тому +3

    Hauntingly Beautiful!

  • @ninakosowsky4099
    @ninakosowsky4099 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @riverdonoghue9992
    @riverdonoghue9992 2 роки тому +2

    Beautiful

  • @jasonryan1942
    @jasonryan1942 2 роки тому +2

    Beautiful