Liturgical Music

Hymns for Holy Week, chanted by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery

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.

Chant Traditions of the Orthodox Church
liturgical music on compact disc

Kevin Smith, director
Mark Bailey, associate director
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

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. Cd only

Archangel Voices in an ensemble of professional-level singers established with the goal of producing high-quality recordings of Orthodox liturgical music in English, This CD offers a variety of compositions and chant arrangements by some of North America's leading composers, including Mark Bailey, Fr. Sergei Glagolev, Frederick Karam, Kevin Lawrence, Vladimir Morosan, Walter Obleschuk, and Jessica Suchy-Pilalis.

The Orthros Service of Holy Pascha (Easter). The most widely attended service of the year, it is filled with hymns of exhortation and joyful praise, announcing the good news of Christs Resurrection.

The Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church as sung by the choir of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, under the direction of David Drillock.

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American composer Richard Toensing creates a vibrant musical synthesis of East and West with new settings of ancient Orthodox Christmas texts.

Lay Aside All Earthly Cares: Orthodox Choral Works in English by Fr. Sergei Glagolev