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• 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'