TCHAIKOVSKY - Hymn of the Cherubim

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY - Hymn of the Cherubim - Performed by the USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir. w/ interiors of ’St. Basil’s Cathedral’ in Moscow and ’The Church of the Savior’ in St. Petersburg, Russia. “Contemplating the problem of not personally holding any religious beliefs while at the same time recognizing the historic importance of music and architecture and art which is labeled ’religious,’ I finally arrived at the conclusion that labeling magnificent examples of art as ’religious’ is always a misnomer, because even though the experience of great art throughout western history almost always is connected to religious life in a very practical, direct sense, the religious experience and the experience of great art is never the same experience. Religion is never art. Religion in and by itself is always kitsch.“ Mikael Askergren