Williams, Roderick: The Responses

(including The Lord’s Prayer)

While still a university student, I discovered a disc of Russian Orthodox Music as recorded by the Tallis Scholars. It made a great impression on me and I was especially struck by a beautiful double choir Lord's Prayer by Rachmaninov from his Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. I wondered what it might be like to create something in its image that would be suitable for use in Anglican Choral Evensong. So I wrote a set of verses and responses for double choir in the spirit of this Russian tradition. Roderick Williams