This is such a beautiful recording, and a good example of the early interpretation of Russian choral/liturgical music in the English language. It stays true to its roots, while not obliterating the English text. My grandfather, David Drillock, helped organize the singers on this recording, helped organize the recording itself, and sang in this choir. He eventually inherited Ledkovsky’s directing of the St. Vladimir’s choir. They both are truly an inspiration.
Thanks for posting this, what a wonderful find. As someone who sings in the Liturgy it's always wonderful to hear the beauty of the words that go to the Glory of God.
Thank you for your uploading . I am happy to listen to beautiful voices anytime . I'm an orthodox christian in Japan and know of a lot of Fathers who have graduated from St.Vladimir's Seminary .
I don’t think my grandfather deserves too much credit for putting to paper the “Moscow” harmonization of the 3rd Antiphon. Pretty standard arrangement. 😊 He can be given credit for the nuanced execution, though, and ensuring that there is a good bass sound at the foundation, something increasingly rare in the OCA today.
He was a legend! I’ve been trying to find other recordings that he conducted with little success. I found one other but it isn’t for sale anymore. I’ve been digitizing recordings from st tikhons and st vlads to preserve them seeing as they are extremely rare these days. Do you have any recordings that he directed that I could potentially digitize? If so I’d be willing to pay!
Hi, so glad you found this recording! Unfortunately there is no release or recording date on the album cover - it does say "For the past five years, annual concerts of liturgical music have been presented to capacity audiences in New York City. In 1962 and 1963......" and goes on. So possibly 1967-1968 would be my guess?
I found one other video of a full album titled simply, "St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary". It also looks like they have a UA-cam channel - if you search "St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary" it will come up!
That is not an akathist. It is the standard hymn "It is truly meet" sung to the Theotokos following the epiklesis at the Divine Liturgy and sung in many other contexts (e.g. at the entrance of the bishop) to various melodies. It is abbreviated at the end of Matins and Vespers, starting at "More honorable than the cherubim…"
This is such a beautiful recording, and a good example of the early interpretation of Russian choral/liturgical music in the English language. It stays true to its roots, while not obliterating the English text. My grandfather, David Drillock, helped organize the singers on this recording, helped organize the recording itself, and sang in this choir. He eventually inherited Ledkovsky’s directing of the St. Vladimir’s choir. They both are truly an inspiration.
Thanks for posting this, what a wonderful find. As someone who sings in the Liturgy it's always wonderful to hear the beauty of the words that go to the Glory of God.
at 32:04, Love the Otche Nach by Nikolay Kedrov but in English. Lovely version that keeps bringing me back... TY for loading this.
An absolute historic gem. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for your uploading . I am happy to listen to beautiful voices anytime .
I'm an orthodox christian in Japan and know of a lot of Fathers who have graduated from St.Vladimir's Seminary .
I don’t think my grandfather deserves too much credit for putting to paper the “Moscow” harmonization of the 3rd Antiphon. Pretty standard arrangement. 😊 He can be given credit for the nuanced execution, though, and ensuring that there is a good bass sound at the foundation, something increasingly rare in the OCA today.
Who is your grandfather?
@@andrewkarlgut1488 the conductor on this recording.
He was a legend! I’ve been trying to find other recordings that he conducted with little success. I found one other but it isn’t for sale anymore. I’ve been digitizing recordings from st tikhons and st vlads to preserve them seeing as they are extremely rare these days. Do you have any recordings that he directed that I could potentially digitize? If so I’d be willing to pay!
@@andrewkarlgut1488 have you posted these digitized recordings anywhere? I would greatly enjoy hearing them!
Thank you very much. My daughter-in-law has to say farewell to her dear mother this week.Hope the music and words may comfort her.
Superb! Thank you so much for sharing! God bless you always! 💐
Thank you so much for presenting this!!!!! xoxoxoxo
Do you know what year this recording was issued? Hard to see …
Hi, so glad you found this recording! Unfortunately there is no release or recording date on the album cover - it does say "For the past five years, annual concerts of liturgical music have been presented to capacity audiences in New York City. In 1962 and 1963......" and goes on. So possibly 1967-1968 would be my guess?
Do you know if the other albums can be found on youtube?
@@MichaelaNatalAnd who does the Prokimenon?
I found one other video of a full album titled simply, "St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary". It also looks like they have a UA-cam channel - if you search "St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary" it will come up!
This I do not know for sure, as on the album it says "Prokimenon - Tone 1 (Znamenny Chant) with no individual singer attributed.
What’s the name of the akathist @30:00 ?
I am not exactly sure - but I did just update the video description with the names of all the singers!
@ I think it is called “it is meet and right” arr Yaichkov
That is not an akathist. It is the standard hymn "It is truly meet" sung to the Theotokos following the epiklesis at the Divine Liturgy and sung in many other contexts (e.g. at the entrance of the bishop) to various melodies. It is abbreviated at the end of Matins and Vespers, starting at "More honorable than the cherubim…"