Video Information

• Choir: Academic Choir of Gdańsk University of Technology
• Piece: Ize Heruvimi
• Composer:  Nun Juliania (Irina Denisova)
• Conductor:  Mariusz Mróz
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Sacred, Contemporary, Eastern Orthodox
• This recording uses a 360° image and Ambisonic sound. We recommend playing with your smartphone and headphones via the YouTube application. Thanks to this, you will be able to experience the interactive, immersive sound and vision in the best way. YouTube...  moreThis recording uses a 360° image and Ambisonic sound. We recommend playing with your smartphone and headphones via the YouTube application. Thanks to this, you will be able to experience the interactive, immersive sound and vision in the best way. YouTube platform only supports 1st order Ambisonics (1OA), which means low spatial resolution of the auditory image. The recording was also posted on the HOAST platform, where you can find the version with the 4th order Ambisonics (4OA); we warmly invite you to check that version as well!
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  This recording was created at the time when many people got vaccinated for COVID-19, thus the restrictions were loosened enough so the Academic Choir of Gdańsk University of Technology could return to rehearsals. This was after a long break, during which the choir practiced singing in a remote manner. In order to celebrate the possibility of regular, normal rehearsing, two-day weekend choral workshops were carried out. This was very essential for the choir after such long break. The workshops ended with a recording, of which one piece is presented in this video.
  
  Irina Denisova is a prominent choral conductor and composer in Belarus. In November 2007 she decided to pledge herself to the Lord, so she became a novice, and then a nun, in St Elisabeth Convent in Minsk. She accepted a name of mother Juliania. Nun Juliania is not a favourer of author’s music in the Church. She thinks that a church needs a beauty of another kind – ascetic, modest, free of emotional outbursts and harmonic curves. She believes everything has been written before us. Not even written – given by God; and these God-given melodies comprise the body of the Znamenny or Byzantine chants.
  
  "Ize Heruvimi" is a hymn performed during the Grand Entry, that is the celebration of carrying gifts from the sacrifice to the altar, which precede...    less