this is the best recording in my opinion, although the sound quality isn't great, I think the slightly slower tempo adds an appropriate weight to the piece which the faster tempos of other recordings lack
My church choir performed this anthem in English and raised up a whole step, so the lowest pitch for the second bass was D2 instead of C2. I was the only second bass, and it was difficult enough to project D2, let alone C2.
The title is incorrect; this is Psalm 103, not 104. (Rachmaninov was a Russian Orthodox, and this is a Russian Orthodox piece, so the Septuagint psalm numbering is the correct one here, not the Hebrew Masoretic numbering.)
Browsing RU-vid for Orthodox chants (I find them really soothing) and I find... Goncharov. I both love and hate Tumblr at the same time. also the bass on this is magnificent
