Hymn of the Cherubim, no. 1 P. I. Tchaikovsky, arr. for organ

Played on my virtual Hauptwerk organ with my Sonus Paradisi sample-set of the Sonnenorgel, Görlitz, Germany.
Gespeeld op mijn virtuele hauptwerk orgel met mijn Sonus Paradisi sample-set van het Sonnenorgel, Görlitz, Duitsland.

Hymn of the Cherubim is an excerpt from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, a sacred, a cappella choral work Tchaikovsky completed in 1878. It was the first “unified musical cycle” of settings of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, one of the central eucharistic services of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The core of the text is attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople in the 5th century.

“A vast and untrodden field of activity lies open to composers here,” wrote Tchaikovsky to a friend regarding the text.

Видео Hymn of the Cherubim, no. 1 P. I. Tchaikovsky, arr. for organ канала Fred Mellink