| All-Night Vigil for choir Всенощное бдение для хора | |
|---|---|
| by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |
| Form | Setting of the all-night vigil |
| Language | Church Slavonic |
| Composed | May 1881 – March 1882: Moscow, Kamenka, Naples |
| Movements | 17 |
| Vocal | SATB choir |
The All-Night Vigil for choir (Russian: Всенощное бдение для хора, Vsyenoshchnoye bdyeniye dlya khora), Op. 52, is an a cappella choral composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, written from 1881 to 1882.[1] It consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox all-night vigil ceremony.
This work, like Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, has been referred to as the Vespers.[2][3] Like the Rachmaninoff, this is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work, as it contains settings from three canonical hours: Vespers, Matins and the First Hour.