Rodion Shchedrin - Vocal Music - Choruses A Cappella

Choruses A Cappella

• Two Choruses to Lyrics by Alexander Pushkin for unaccompanied mixed chorus (1950)
• "The Willow", vocalise for unaccompanied mixed chorus (1954)
• Four Choruses to Lyrics by Alexander Tvardovsky for unaccompanied mixed chorus (1968)
• Four Choruses to Lyrics by Andrei Voznesensky for unaccompanied mixed chorus (1971)
• "Russian Villages" for unaccompanied mixed chorus (1973). Chorus to lyrics by Ivan Khabarov.
• "A Woman was Washing Clothes" for unaccompanied mixed chorus (1975). Chorus to lyrics by J. Lyapin.
• "The Execution of Pugachev", poem for mixed chorus a cappella (1981). Text by Alexander Pushkin. First performance on 10 March 1983 in Tallinn by the Moscow Conservatory Student's Chorus, Boris Tevlin (cond).
• "Lines (Stanzas)" from "Eugen Onegin" for mixed chorus a cappella (1981). Text by Alexander Pushkin. First performance in May 1982 in Moscow by the Conservatory Student's Chorus, B. Tevlin (cond).
• Concertino in four movements for chorus a cappella (1982). Commissioned by the Cork International Choral Festival. First performance on 5 May 1982 in Cork, Ireland by the Cork Festival Chorus and the Lialiumai Chorus, Albinas Piatrauskas (cond).
• "The Sealed Angel", Russian liturgy for mixed chorus a cappella with shepherd's pipe (1988). Russian orthodox text. First performance on 18 June 1988 in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscow by the Moscow Chamber Chorus and the State Academic Chorus of the USSR, Vladimir Minin (cond), Alexander Golyshev (flute).
• Two Russian Choirs (2008). First Performance: 12 September 2008 in Moscow by the National Choir of Russian Conservatories, conducted by Boris Tevlin.