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Choral Evensong

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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Transfiguration Cathedral, St Petersburg (archive recording from August 2003)

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Transfiguration Cathedral, St Petersburg (archive recording from August 2003)

02/08/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Transfiguration Cathedral, St Petersburg (archive recording from August 2003)

Archive recording of Orthodox Vespers from the Cathedral Transfiguration, St Petersburg.

Archive recording from 2003 of Orthodox Vespers from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, St Petersburg.

Archive recording from 2003 for the Feast of the Transfiguration from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, St Petersburg, Russia, in the 300th anniversary year of the city's founding. The service is led by the Archpriest, Father Boris Glebov, and the Cathedral Choir directed by Vladimir Lvov sings music by Allemanov, Smolensky, Burmatin, Tretyakov, Zakharov and Tchesnokov. The Gospel for the day is Luke 9: 28-36. Father Vladimir Fyodorov gives the homily and the commentator is Canon Michael Bourdeaux.

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