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St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble

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Blagovest means glad news, and that is the image that is projected. All the members of the Ensemble are professional musicians and care passionately for the music that they have chosen as their life's vocation. Choir music traditionally holds a leading place in Russian culture, originating over a thousand years ago.

St Petersburg is considered to be one of the centres of traditional Russian choir music, and the Conservatoire in St Petersburg is recognised as one of the premier establishments for the training of singers and choir conductors.

2003

Russian Orthodox Church Music

and folk songs.

 

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Britain's finest Baroque Church.  St. Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley,  A443 Worcester - Tenbury Wells road, 10 miles north-west of Worcester.    As the parish church for the villages of Great Witley and Little Witley  it is used regularly for services and concerts. The church is open to visitors daily. The church, now almost fully restored, displays a splendour which is unique amongst country churches in Britain, with exquisite gilded decorations throughout, numerous paintings by Antonio Bellucci, ten painted glass windows depicting scenes from the New Testament, highly decorative carving and a large monument by Rysbrack. It also has a fine organ, its case being from the instrument on which Handel played.   Many musicians consider its acoustics for music to be as fine as any building of its size outside London