Rodion Shchedrin. The Sealed Angel (1989)

Choral music after Nikolai Leskov for mixed choir a capella with reed (flute) in 9 movements.
In the Church Slavonic llanguage

1. Sostenuto Assai
2. Allegro
3. L’istesso Tempo. Sostenuto Assai
4. Rabbioso
5. L'istesso Tempo
6. Pesante
7. Lamento
                                                8. L'istesso Tempo. Andante
                                                9. Sostenuto

Soloists: Alexander Golyshev - flute Lolita Semenina - soprano (movement III) Natalia Belova - soprano (movement VI) Tatiana Zhdanova - mezzo-soprano (movements III and VI) Andrei Azovsky - descant (movement VII) Alexander Illarionov - alto (movement VII) Alexei Alexeyev - tenor (movements III and VI)

The Moscow Chamber Choir
The USSR State Academic Choir

Choir masters: Vladimir Urman, Lyudmila Urman, Tatiana Kurpekova
Artistic director and conductor - Vladimir Minin

Recorded in 1989 at the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory Sound engineers: I. Veprintsev, E. Buneyeva