The All-Night Vigil ultimately stems from Einojuhani Rautavaara’s vision-including childhood visit to the island monastery of Valamo in the middle of Lake Ladoga. The images and sounds re-emerged fifteen years later in the piano cycle Icons and again three years later when Rautavaara was commissioned to set the orthodox divine service, or All-Night Vigil. No instruments are used in divine services in the Orthodox Church, and because of this the composer wanted to use the choir in as varied a way as possible. There are numerous solos, the choir speaks and whispers, sings in clusters and glissandi. The variation technique used binds and structures all sections and songs of the work together into a vast and beautiful mosaic.
Vepers
Psalm 103
Katisma
Psalm of Invocation
Sticheron of Invocation
Sticheron to the Mother of God
Evering Hymn
Ekteniya
Sticheron of the Litany
Ekteniya of the Litany
Sticheron
Troparion
Troparion of the Feast
Final Blessing
Matins
Troparion
Troparion (2nd)
Hymn of Praise
Troparion of the Resurrection
Antiphon
Prokeimenon
Hymn of the Resurrection
Canon: 1st Irmos
3rd Irmos
4th Irmos
5th Irmos
6th Irmos
7th Irmos
8th Irmos
Katabasis: Hymn of Thaksgiving of the Mother of God
9th Irmos
Sticheron of Thaksgiving
Troparion of the Resurrection
Final Blessing
Seitenzahl: 144
Besetzung: Soli und gemischter Chor (SATB)
Ausgabe: Chorpartitur
Sprache: finnisch - englisch
