Byzantine Music in the New World: Orthodox Saints
Byzantine Music in the New World – “Orthodox Saints”
Byzantium in Rome: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Grottaferrata
Cappella Romana offers two CDs in its latest release: a groundbreaking collection of medieval Byzantine chant from the Abbey of Grottaferrata, located in the suburban hills of Rome. Led by virtuoso cantor Ioannis Arvanitis, Cappella Romana recaptures the artistic vibrancy of medieval Italy’s Greek minority with ecstatic 13th-century chants for St. Benedict, the monastery’s founders St. Bartholomew and St. Nilos, and for the feast of Pentecost. Two CDs (CD1: The Founders of Grottaferrata; CD2: The Feast of Pentecost).
Celebrate with Us: In Prayerful Celebration and Remembrance of Our 90th Year – Holy Transfiguration
Celebrate with Us: In Prayerful Celebration and Remembrance of Our 90th year – Holy Transfiguration
Chant: Chant Traditions of the Orthodox Church
Sung by the choirs of St Vladimir’s Seminary
Arranged for English-language liturgical use in North America, these chants draw from various musical traditions of the Orthodox Church and include, among other selections:
- Gladsome Light, Znamenny chant
- “The Shadow of the Law,” Znamenny chant
- St Symeon’s Prayer, Byzantine chant
- Antiphon XV at the Entrance of the Cross on Great and Holy Friday, Byzantine chant
- The Polyeleon (Psalm 135), Byzantine chant
- Exapostilarion of Bridegroom Matins, Bulgarian melody
- Kathisma Hymn of Great and Holy Thursday, Carpatho-Rusyn chant
- Kathisma Hymn of Paschal Nocturns, Bulgarian melody
- “Christ is Risen,” Serbian and Byzantine chant
Chants From Balamand: Chants from Vespers and Matins for the Feast of St. John of Damascus
In Arabic and Greek By the Choir of Balamand Monastery and the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, in Tripoli, Lebanon Byzantine chant from Vespers and Matins for the feast of St. John of Damascus. Find CD track samples here.
Cherubika, The Hymn of Great Entrance: Chant of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Total running time: 54 minutes
- 8-page folder insert
- historical development of each melody
- essay by Dr. Dimitri Conomos on the Cherubic Hymn and its substitutes
- hymn text
- typeset music available here
- Cherubic Hymn, Znamenny chant, “Now the Powers” melody
- Cherubic Hymn, Georgian chant
- Cherubic Hymn, Serbian chant, “Nicholas the Serb” 14th cent.
- Of Thy Mystic Supper, Znamenny chant, L. Margitich
- Cherubic Hymn, Russian chant, “Sophronievskaia”
- Cherubic Hymn, Znamenny chant
- Cherubic Hymn, Znamenny chant, Tone 5, L. Margitich
- Cherubic Hymn, Serbian chant, Tone 1, after Mokranjac
- Now the Powers, Bulgarian chant
- Let All Mortal Flesh, Russian Valaam chant
- Cherubic Hymn, Romanian chant, Tone 8, I. Popescu-Pasãrea
Editor’s Note: if you listen carefully to the final clip (Track 11) you can hear a bell tolling at the very end. At the airport en route to our final recording session in California, I received a call from Fr. Lawrence, saying that a member of the parish had died and some of our plans for one of the sessions he was scheduled to conduct would have to be changed due to the funeral. In the end, they decided to have the funeral in the smaller church and we decided to go ahead and record sans director in the main church, knowing we would have to discontinue once the funeral let out because of all the noise. As it happened, we were recording the final “Alleluias” of the hymn when the bell began to toll and birds burst into song. We quickly looked at each other and all knew we needed to keep going rather than stop the tape. It felt like a very appropriate and blessed thing to be able to offer our final hymn as a living memorial to the handmaid of God Olga. May her memory be eternal!
-From AnaphoraPress.com
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Christ is Born: Traditional Byzantine Chant in English
Christ is Born: Traditional Byzantine Chant in English
Christmas Carols – Rizdvyani Kolyadki “The Boyan Ensemble”
Christmas Carols – Rizdvyani Kolyadki “The Boyan Ensemble”
