Composition: All-Night Vigil, Op. 52 (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr)

Title All-Night Vigil
Alternative title Всенощное бдение
Creators Pyotr Tchaikovsky (composer) and Orthodox liturgy (librettist)
Opus Op.52
Instrumentation mixed chorus
Number of movements 17
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Composed 1881
First published 1883
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Average duration (sec) 2700
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Composition types Sacred choruses
Language Church Slavonic
Period Romantic
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Sections

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Introductory Psalm: "Bless My Soul, O Lord" (Предначинательный псалом: «Благослови душе моя») — — —
"Lord Have Mercy" and other brief responses («Господипомилуй» и другие краткие молитвословия) — — —
Kathisma: "Blessed is the Man" (Кафисма: «Блажен муж») — — —
"Lord, I Call to Thee" («Господивоззвах к Тебе») — — —
"Gladsome Light" («Свете тихий») — — —
"Rejoice, O Virgin" («БогородицеДеворадуйся») — — —
"The Lord is God" («Бог Господь») — — —
Polyeleion: "Praise the Name of the Lord" (Полиелей: «Хвалите имя Господне») — — —
Troparia: "Blessed Art Thou, Lord" (Тропари: «Благословен еси Господи») — — —
Gradual Antiphon: "From My Youth" (Степенна «От юности моея») — — —
Hymns after the Gospel Reading: "Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ" (Песнопения по Евангелии: «Воскресение Христово видевше») — — —
Common Katabasis: "I Shall Open My Lips" (Катавасия рядовая: «Отверзну уста моя») — — —
Canticle of the Mother of God (Песнь Богоматери с припевом) — — —
"Holy is the Lord Our God" («Свят Господь Бог наш») — — —
Theotokion: "Both Now and Forever" (Богородичен «И ныне и присно») — — —
Great Doxology: "Glory to God in the Highest" (Великое славословие «Слава в вышних Богу») — — —
"To Thee the Glorious Leader" («Взбранной Воеводе победительная») — — —

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