Bass Singer sings TTBBB Multitrack Choir Version of Chesnokov – Salvation is Created (Spaseniye Sodelal)
Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)
Salvation is Created
Spaseniye Sodelal
Op. 25, No. 5
arr. Thou Yang
Key: Bb Major
Range: F1 – Bb4
Ukrainian/Kievan Chant
Russian Script: Cпасение coдeлaл еси посреде земли, Боже. Аллилуия.
Latin Alphabet: Spaséniye sodélal yesí posredé ziemlí, Bózhe. Allilúiya.
English: Salvation is created in the midst of the earth, O God. Alleluia.
I arranged this during the quarantine and left it in Google Drive. Found it again and decided to record everything. Made a few changes and moved it down to the key of Bb. This arrangement takes both the Church Slavonic and English versions as well as the SATB and TTBB versions into consideration.
I also chose to work in the range that was comfortable/performable for me in a choral setting, which led me to choose to mix in a way that still maintains dynamics and choral tone, but also with better bass fidelity for the listening experience. This arrangement is both the English and Russian version in one.
Also for the curious, the low notes aree a combination of chest (chest fry for G1 and F1) and subharmonics, and mix/head for everything above F4. 👍
Please enjoy!
– Thou
Please support and purchase the original version (SATBB, TTBB version is also available on their website) from MusicaRussica:
http://www.musicarussica.com/sheet_music_pieces/cn176
Salvation Is Created
Arrangement of: Kievan Chant
Opus: Op. 25, No. 5
Genre: Divine Liturgy, Feast Day
Voicing: SATB(div)
Language: Church Slavonic
Cat. No: Cn176
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
— “Salvation is Created” is a choral work composed by Pavel Tchesnokov in 1912 as the fifth in his Ten Communion Hymns (opus 25). It was one of the last sacred works he composed before he turned to secular arts when the Soviet government began to suppress Christianity. Although he never heard his own composition performed, his children had the opportunity following his death. “Salvation is Created'” was originally published in 1913 by J. Fischer and Bro. and its popularity drove editors to produce many different versions in both Russian and English. Scored for six voices (SATTBB), the work is a communion hymn based on a synodal Kievan chant melody and Psalm 74 (73 in the Greek version). —
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