Otche Nash - Kedroff | National Lutheran Choir

Otche Nash (Our Father)
Nikolai Kedroff (1871-1940)
© Musica Russica, Inc., Catalog #Ke001
Recorded live November 2016, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minnesota

Nikolai Kedroff was a Russian composer of liturgical music. His setting of Otche Nash (The Lord's Prayer) is one of the best-known in the repertoire. From 1894 to 1897 he studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, becoming an operatic baritone who performed at various theaters, including the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1897 he organized a men's vocal quartet (Saint Petersburg Russian vocal quartet).Their first concert was held in 1898 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The repertoire of the quartet included Russian folk songs, ballads, opera music, then gradually liturgical music appeared. The quartet each year successfully toured Europe, including participation in Diaghilev’s seasons. In 1913/1914 Feodor Chaliapin and the quartet recorded a musical album in London. In 1917, Kedroff became a professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Some time after the October Revolution, in 1922, the family emigrated from Russia and lived in Berlin, in 1928 moved to France. In Paris, Kedroff recreated the quartet (Quatuor Kedroff). The repertoire of the ensemble in exile included liturgical chants of the Russian Orthodox Church. The quartet toured in Europe and North America. Kedroff taught at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris.
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Text:
Otche nash, Izhe yesi na nebeseh,
Da svyatitsya imya Tvoye
Da priidet Tsarstviye Tvoye,
Da budet volya Tvoya,
Yako na nebesi i na zemli.
Hleb nash nasuschchniy dazhd nam dnes,
I ostavi nam dolgi nasha,
Yakozhe i mi ostavlya yem dolzhnikom nashim:
I ne vvedi nas vo iskusheniye,
No izbavi nas ot lukavago.

All join in singing the doxology, in harmony: Our Father in heaven,
hallowed by your Name.
Your Kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread;
and forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us;
save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.