Credochamber Choir:Plish - Sviridov: Hymns And Prayers

Georgy Sviridov (1915-98) has been hailed as the most important composer of choral music of the twentieth century.Sviridov saw himself as part of the thousand-year continuum of Russian culture, giving its resonance full expression in the monumental choral cycle Hymns and Prayers, written over a ten-year period from 1987 to 1997; he completed it only weeks before he died.Extraordinarily beautiful and profoundly moving, Hymns and Prayers is perhaps the most important Russian choral composition since the liturgies of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.