• The Grammy-Award-winning conductor Charles Bruffy
brings together his two professional choirs, the Kansas
City Chorale and Phoenix Chorale, for this recording of
Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-night Vigil, a work that stands as
the crowning achievement of the 'Golden Age' of Russian
Orthodox sacred choral music.
• The recording follows live performances of the work by the
combined ensembles in April and May 2014.
• The Phoenix Chorale and Kansas City Chorale are regarded
as among the finest professional choral ensembles in the
world.
• Their recordings have earned a combined total of ten
Grammy® nominations and four wins.
• Building on the success of previous collaborations, these
performances marked the seventh time that the two choirs
have performed together.
• Of a 2009 joint performance at Alice Tully Hall in NYC, The
New York Times' Vivien Schweitzer wrote that the choirs
'performed with a buoyant pulse and energetic finesse', and
praised 'the choirs' refined sound and elegant phrasing'