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: This movement serves as the introduction to the Vespers portion of the service. It is a musical setting of Psalm 103 (or 102 in the Septuagint numbering).

: The text also appears as the "First Antiphon" in Rachmaninoff's earlier Liturgy (Op. 31), though that version is generally simpler than the version in the Vigil [ 0.5.12 ]. blagoslovi_duse_moya_gospoda

: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky also wrote a setting of this text in his own All-Night Vigil (Op. 52), which influenced Rachmaninoff's later work [ 0.5.26 ]. : This movement serves as the introduction to

: This is considered the definitive choral setting, composed in just two weeks in 1915 [ 0.5.23 ]. blagoslovi_duse_moya_gospoda