Album lore

Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia, issued by Valley Entertainment in 1998, assembles sixteen selections of Russian choral and Gregorian chant. The album offers a window into liturgical forms such as the Great Ektenia, the Hymn of the Cherubim in multiple excerpts, and the Russian Monastic Vespers. These pieces are rendered by various artists whose collective voices evoke the austere solemnity and layered harmonies characteristic of Eastern Orthodox chant traditions.This compilation, with nearly 10,000 Last.fm listeners and close to 60,000 scrobbles, preserves a lineage of ecclesiastical vocal art that has long informed Russian sacred music. The featured track, “Hymn of the Cherubim (Excerpt),” exemplifies the meditative clarity and reverent pacing that mark these masterworks, inviting attentive listening to the subtle interplay of modal chant and polyphonic textures.

Album lore

Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia, issued by Valley Entertainment in 1998, assembles sixteen selections of Russian choral and Gregorian chant. The album offers a window into liturgical forms such as the Great Ektenia, the Hymn of the Cherubim in multiple excerpts, and the Russian Monastic Vespers. These pieces are rendered by various artists whose collective voices evoke the austere solemnity and layered harmonies characteristic of Eastern Orthodox chant traditions.This compilation, with nearly 10,000 Last.fm listeners and close to 60,000 scrobbles, preserves a lineage of ecclesiastical vocal art that has long informed Russian sacred music. The featured track, “Hymn of the Cherubim (Excerpt),” exemplifies the meditative clarity and reverent pacing that mark these masterworks, inviting attentive listening to the subtle interplay of modal chant and polyphonic textures.