Night
The All-Night Vigil for choir (Russian: Всенощное бдение для хора, Vsyenoshchnoye bdyeniye dlya khora), Op. 52, is an a cappella choral composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, written from 1881 to 1882. It consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox all-night vigil ceremony.
This work, like Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, has been referred to as the Vespers. Like the Rachmaninoff, this is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work, as it contains settings from three canonical hours: Vespers, Matins and the First Hour.
Movements
- Introductory Psalm: "Bless My Soul, O Lord"
- "Lord Have Mercy" and other brief responses
- Kathisma: "Blessed is the Man"
- "Lord, I Call to Thee"
- "Gladsome Light"
- "Rejoice, O Virgin"
- "The Lord is God"
- Polyeleion: "Praise the Name of the Lord"
- Troparia: "Blessed Art Thou, Lord"
- Gradual Antiphon: "From My Youth"
- Hymns after the Gospel Reading: "Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ"
- Common Katabasis: "I Shall Open My Lips"
- Canticle of the Mother of God
- "Holy is the Lord Our God"
- Theotokion: "Both Now and Forever"
- Great Doxology: "Glory to God in the Highest"
- "To Thee the Glorious Leader"