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ID: VOL.22.0
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
On the eve of Great Saturday, which is also called the blessed Sabbath, the office of the burial of the Saviour is celebrated, which begins with the troparions «The Noble Joseph», «When Thou didst descend…» and «The Myrrh-Bearing Women». After that «The Evlogitaria» are sung before the Shroud, which has been brought into the middle of the church from the sanctuary. Special verses are read which express the grief and awe of the Christian soul before the God-Man.
The Divine Liturgy is celebrated after Vespers on Saturday morning. Its hymns call people to think about the time from the death of Christ on the Cross and His burial to His Resurrection from the dead. «Let all mortal flesh keep silence», sung in place of the Cherubic hymn, reminds us of the redemptive act of the Saviour. Equally moving and beautiful are «Weep not for Me, O Mother» and «The Thrice-Holy» accompanied by bell-ringing.
The monastic choir sings these hymns in Byzantine, Znamenny, Valaam, Bulgarian and Greek chants with deep feeling, restraint and grief, as befits Lent.
Colour booklet 4 pages. |
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ID: VOL.19.0
CDs: 1
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Music, Prayers
The reading and singing of the Valaam monastic rule are imbued with a special prayerful mood characteristic for daily life of the monks.
It could well happen that while listening to this small choir your will join it in singing «O Most Sweet Jesus, save us, the sinners» and «O Most Holy Mother of God, save us, the sinners».
Colour booklet 4 pages |
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ID: VOL.16.0
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Precentor of the Monastic Choir of the Valaam Monastery - Hierodeacon German (Ryabtsev)
The monastic life and heroism of the spirit are likened to the way of the Cross in both sense of responsibility and difficulty. The hymns of the CD as if show the landmarks on this innermost way: the call to monastic life (Ringing of the bells), the taking of monastic vows («Open Thy fatherly embrace» and the Cherubic hymn), repentance and temperance in monastic life (Penitential verses), and the end of monastic deeds and earthly life (stanza for the burial of monks and «May your memory be eternal»).
The hymns, which resound with austerity, introduce the listener to the mystical realm of the monks" life, as their works and deeds are hidden form an outsider"s eye.
Colour booklet (8 pages) in the Russian and English languages with a short narration on the monastic life and the recorded hymns. |
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ID: VOL.12.0
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
The CD receives its title from the first words of the theme-song of the Great Canon of St.Andrew of Crete and contains penitential verses set to music.
They are performed by 8 voices in Znamenny chant of the 17th century in a traditionally strict church style and help the listener to understand how one can become conscious of his unworthiness before the Creator and of the necessity to beseech His almighty help in Christian life and in monastic life in particular.
Colour booklet (20 pages) with the views of Valaam and religious verses. |
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ID: SIGCD368
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
1. The Ring Dance of the Nazarene [24'14]
with Roderick Williams (baritone), Chris Brannick (percussion), The Nash Ensemble
Three Latin Motets
2. O bone Jesu [3'39]
3. Pange lingua [2'45]
4. In supremae nocte cenae [3'25]
5. Carmen Paschale [5'50] Philippa Davies (flute)
6. Lullaby [2'08]
7. On the Sheer Threshold of the Night [13'17] Emma Tring (soprano), Margaret Cameron (alto), Stephen Jeffes (tenor), Charles Gibbs (bass)
8. The Moth Requiem [18'32] Philippa Davies (flute), Lucy Wakeford (harp), Helen Tunstall (harp), Hugh Webb (harp)
In 2014-the composer’s 80th year-Harrison Birtwistle remains one of the most popular voices in contemporary composition in the UK and beyond. This new collection of premiere recordings draws together recent commissions with older works to mark the occasion, with characteristically flawless performances from the BBC Singers under Nicholas Kok. They are joined by The Nash Ensemble and baritone Roderick Williams.
This is the fourth in Signum's ongoing series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, with past discs featuring the works by Judith Bingham, Richard Rodney Bennett, and most recently Edward Cowie. |
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ID: SIGCD370
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Bairstow: I sat down under his shadow
Brumel, A: Sicut lilium
Casals, E: Nigra Sum
Clemens: Ego flos campi
Duruflé: Ubi caritas, Op. 10 No. 1
Finzi: My lovely one, Op. 27 No. 1
Grieg: Four Psalms Op. 74: No. 1 'How fair is thy face'
Hadley, P: My beloved spake
Muhly: Set me as a seal
Rivafrecha: Anima mea
Skempton: Rise up, my Love
How fair is thy love
My beloved is gone down
How fair is thy love
Vierne, L: Pièces de fantaisie, 4th suite, Op. 55: No. 1, Aubade
Walker, R: As The Apple Tree
Walton: Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Wesley, S S: Blessed be the God and Father
Willan: Rise up, my love
Mark Williams leads the Choir of the Jesus College Cambridge through an evocative selection of choral works inspired in varying ways by the songs of Solomon.
Songs of love have been written from the earliest records of human existence. None are more passionately ecstatic than the Song of Solomon, which occupies a unique place in the Holy Bible in both style and content. It contains lyric poems of love and courtship, as might have been sung at Jewish weddings. For Christians, these poems speak to the beauty of the union of Christ and his ‘bride’, the Church. The present collection presents a diverse group of choral works written between the 16th century and the present day, with most inspired by this unique sacred text. |
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ID: BMCCD203
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
01. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908): Our Father 2:00
02. Bell prayer 1 1:02
03. Dmitri Bortniansky (1751-1825) arr. G. Smirnov: Glory be to God on high 4:20
04. Pavel Tchesnokov (1877-1944):Do not reject me.. 6:22
05. Wooden instruments and bell prayer 2 1:32
06. György Phillipp (1982) arr.: Christ is risen from the dead 2:36
07. Nikola Srbin (15th century):Cherubic Hymn 5:44
08. Polyeleos from Heirmology of Sajópálfala (18th century) 1:46
09. László Bubnó arr.:Beatitudes 6:36
10. Bell prayer 3 2:33
11. Petar Dinev (1889-1980) arr. Gy. Philipp:Bless the Lord, o my soul 2:36
12. Romuald Twardowski (1930): Behold, now bless the Lord 3:26
13. Tamás Bubnó (1957): Isaiah, rejoice 4:39
14. Bell prayer 4 0:41
15. Georgy Smirnov (1960) arr.: So went the three Magi 2:14
16. György Silló (1975) arr.: Good evening, the Christchild is born! 1:44
17. Hark, how the bells 1:03
18. Bell prayer 5 1:20
19. Lesya Ditchko (1939): Only-begotten Son of God 2:00
20. Beatitudes 7:24
21. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Our Father 2:04
22. Rejoice, O Virgin 1:16
23. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943): Hexapsalmos 3:16
Total time: 68:23
Performers
Saint Ephraim Male Choir
Tamás Bubnó - artistic director
Guest soloists:
Tünde Szabóki - soprano
Fülöp Kocsis, bishop of Hajdúdorog - voice
Tenors:
István Viszló, Sebestyén Szabó, Donát Varga (*20), Zoltán Gavodi, András Hajnal, Attila Szilágyi, Bertalan Nagy, Lőrinc Bubnó
Basszusok:
György Philipp (*6,7), Márk Bubnó, Kornél Pechan, Béla Laborfalvi Soós, Péter Cser (*20), György Silló (*4), László Domahidy (*4) |
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ID: BMCCD206
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Recorded by Péter Erdélyi at the Franciscan Church in Sümeg, June, 2009 - special thanks to the Franciscan Community of Sümeg
The cult of the Holy Cross is the cult of the One who was crucified. As Thomas Aquinas explains, the honour, love and devotion which the Church bore toward the one who died on the cross was, as it were, transferred to the tree on which his blood was spilt, then secondarily to the various representations of the cross. In other words, contemplation of the crucifix aroused and deepened in believers honour, love and devotion for the Saviour; the cross in its material aspect aided the spirit of worship.
01. Beneventan antiphons for the Exaltation of the Cross, on Good Friday 3:42
02. Responsory for the Feast of the Holy Cross (to an Old Roman melody) 1:53
03. Ambrosian Ingressa and Transitorium for the feast of the Holy Cross 2:19
04. John Dunstable: (? - 1453): O crux (for three voices) 5:30
05. Introit with tropes 4:05
06. Alleluia with sequence 2:59
07. Nicolas Gombert (ca. 1495 - 1560): O crux splendidior (for six voices) 5:12
08. Offertory 6:17
09. Communion 0:56
10. Jacobus Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510 - ca. 1556): Haec est arbor dignissima 5:27
11. Introit 2:01
12. Offertory 5:59
13. Communion 0:43
14. Jacobus Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510 - ca. 1556): O crux benedicta 3:15
15. Antiphon 3:17
16. Responsory 2:35
17. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525 - 1594): Crucem sanctam 3:07
18. Antiphon series for the Feast of the Holy Cross 2:43
19. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Adoramus te Christe 2:21
Total time: 64:34
Performers
Schola Hungarica
conducted by Janka Szendrei (2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18) and
László Dobszay (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19) |
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ID: BMCCD208
CDs: 1
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Recorded live at St. Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest, 19 December 2011, 6 January,
15 April and 3 June 2012
This recording was made on four very special evenings. The Saint Ephraim Male Choir marked its tenth anniversary through a series of concerts titled Orientale Lumen - Light of the East. Organized by the Philharmonia Budapest Concert Agency this series was held at the magnificent St. Stephen’ s Basilica in Budapest, and featured internationally renowned guests.
01. Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944): Evening sacrifice 4:36
02. Bell prayer I 0:54
03. Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881): The Angel cried to the Lady full of grace 1:38
04. Today Christ is risen - Lord Christ has risen (Religious songs from Moldova) 2:53
05. Tamás Bubnó (1957) arr. :Christ is risen from the dead 1:55
06. György Philipp (1982): Today Christ is risen from the dead (Greek paschalitikal song) 2:16
07. Bell prayer II 0:40
08. O pure and virgin Lady (Hymn of St. Nektarios) 2:25
09. By divine command (Greek and Hungarian Doxastikon Tunes) 13:46
10. Péter Zombola (1983): The Lord’s Prayer 3:30
11. Bell prayer III 0:42
12. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943): Hexapsalm 3:04
13. Lesya Ditchko (1939): Trishagion 5:38
14. Bell prayer IV 0:53
15. Tamás Bubnó (1957): Rusyn Christmas Songs 2:00
16. The twelve thieves (Russian religious song) 5:40
Total time: 52:39
Performers
Saint Ephraim Male Choir
Tamás Bubnó - artistic director
Soloists:
Evgeny Nesterenko (1, 16)
Márta Sebestyén (4, 6)
Tünde Szabóki (13, 15)
Fülöp Kocsis, Bishop of Hajdúdorog (9)
György Philipp (9) |
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ID: IMP1213
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choral and Organ
Magnificent French baroque and Gregorian chant. The organist Ralph Gustafsson interprets François Couperin Messe des Pariosses, Parish Mass and Ensemble Adhoc sings Gregorian chant.
Couperin has gone to posterity as "Couperin le Grand" Couperin the Great. His music on this CD is performed on the French Baroque organ in Maria Magdalena Church in Stockholm. |
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