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Here’s rare book: the first (and probably only) edition of A Selection from the Music in use at the Church of St John the Divine Fairfield, privately printed in—presumably—a small number of copies, in 1858.  (This is Fairfield, Merseyside, by the way, not Connecticut.)  The compiler was one J. B. Cooper. The whole thing is […]

These are the page proofs, with autograph corrections by the composer, of Aleksandr Grechaninov’s Liturgia Domestica (1926/7). Grechaninov (1864–1956) is best known for the sublime choral music he wrote for the Russian Orthodox Church.  It is what you expect to hear in Russian church music, comparable to, say, the style of Rachmaninov’s Vespers.  But there was […]