HOLY RUSSIA - A CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS presents the very best in sacred Russian music, performed by the Moscow Chamber Choir and the Monastery Choir of Trinity St Sergius. Set in the cathedrals, monasteries and sacred places in Moscow, the Golden Ring, and New Jerusalem, it includes the main Christmas masses at Epiphany (Yelokhovsky) and Assumption cathedrals; the special Epiphany Mass at Kazan Cathedral at Kolomenskoye; and an ordinary mass in the Church of the Resurrection at Kostroma (some three hundred kilometres from the Russian capital). The program ends with the Epiphany procession at the monastery of New Jerusalem and the great blessing of the waters.