CD Details: Northern Athos
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Cat. no. D106 Date Listed 02/01/2006 |
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Title: | Northern Athos |
| Performers: | Monastic Choir of the Valaam Monastery | ||
| Conductor: | Hierodeacon German (Ryabtsev) | ||
| Recording Type / Total Time: | / 72:12:00 | ||
| Label and Number: | Orthodoxmusic.ru v.18 | ||
| Issue Date: | 1999 | ||
| Price: |
$20.98
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| Rating: | *** |
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REVIEW
Another “classic” CD from Valaam (newly available again), which illustrates the familial closeness between Byzantine and Russian Znamenny and Valaam Chants, especially when the latter are performed with a sustained ison (drone). Listeners will be particularly fascinated to hear traditional Byzantine melodies sung in Church Slavonic (including the now “famous” hymn “O Virgin Pure” composed by St. Nectarios of Aegina), re-creating a process that ocurred some 1000 years ago, when Christianity was first brought to Rus’ from Byzantium and its chants were adapted to Slavonic.--V.M.
TRACK LISTING
| No. | Composer | Title | Transliterated Title | Audio Clip | Sheet Music |
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| 1. | Ringing of church bells / Agni Parthene | Listen | |||
| 2. | Byzantine Chant | Lord, I have cried unto Thee… | Listen | ||
| 3. | Byzantine Chant | Dogmatic, Tone 1 | |||
| 4. | Byzantine Chant | O victorious leader of triumphant hosts | Listen | ||
| 5. | Greek Chant | Troparion for the Eve of the Nativity of Christ | |||
| 6. | Kievan Chant | Proceed, Angelic Powers | |||
| 7. | Znamenny Chant | Stanza of the Ninth Hour for the Eve of the Nativity of Christ | |||
| 8. | Byzantine Chant | Great Doxology, Tone 3 | Listen | ||
| 9. | St.Elijah Skete, Mount Athos | A mercy of peace… | Listen | ||
| 10. | Byzantine Chant | It is truly fitting | |||
| 11. | Byzantine Chant | Kontakion of the Great Canon of St.Andrew of Crete | |||
| 12. | Znamenny Chant | Helper and Protector | Listen | ||
| 13. | Znamenny Chant | Behold, the Bridegroom comes… | |||
| 14. | Laura of the Holy Trinity and St.Sergius | Open Thy fatherly embrace… | |||
| 15. | Znamenny Chant | God is with us | Listen | ||
| 16. | Znamenny Chant | Stanza for the Litia to Ss Sergius and Herman of Valaam | |||
| 17. | Znamenny Chant | O Heavenly King | |||
| 18. | Znamenny Chant | Let all mortal flesh keep silence | |||
| 19. | Byzantine Chant | Paschal stichera, 'Let God arise' |