Attend, O Heaven: Hymns from Great Lent & Pascha - CD
Author: Saint Seraphim Orthodox Choir
This choir uses a rich variety of traditional chant sources for their English-language hymnody. There are 32 different selections, encompassing in a variety of settings and styles: from Byzantine to Carpatho-Russian chant from duets to full choir. The disc is well recorded and beautifully presented with color photographs and quotations from the Divine Services.
Track Listing
1. Waters of Babylon (Znamenny Chant)
2. Make Haste (Hymn from Matins of Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Tone 1, Znamenny Chant)
3. Alas, Black Soul (Aposticha Doxastikon from Meatfare Sunday, Tone 8, Znamenny Chant)
4. Turn Not Thy Countenance (Prokeimenon of Forgiveness Vespers, Tone 8, Carpatho-Russian Chant)
5. Let Us Set Out with Joy (Sticheron of Forgiveness Vespers, Tone 2, Znamenny Chant)
6. Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (Exerpts from Odes 1, 2, & 5, Tone 6, Znamenny Chant)
7. Now the Powers (Presanctified Liturgy, Tone 5, Bulgarian Chant)
8. O Taste and See (Communion Hymn of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, Byzantine Chant)
9. The Grace of Truth (Doxastikon of Vespers, Sunday of Orthodoxy, Tone 2, Znamenny Chant)
10. We Venerate (Troparion of Sunday of Orthodoxy, Tone 2, Znamenny Chant)
11. Thy Tongue (Vespers Aposticha Doxastikon from Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas, Tone 8, Carpatho-Russian Chant)
12. Rejoice, O Life-Giving Cross (Vespers Sticheron from Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, Tone 5, Russian Chant)
13. Shine, O Cross (Vespers Sticheron)
14. Archangelski Glas/With the Voice (Megalynarion of the Annunciation, Tone 5, Znamenny Chant)
15. O Holy Father John (Vespers Sticheron from the Sunday of St. John Climacus, Tone 8, Special Melody, Russian Chant)
16. Today the Grace of the Holy Spirit (Vespers Sticheron from Palm Sunday, Tone 6, Znamenny Chant)
17. Thy Bridal Chamber (Exapostilarion of Bridegroom Matins, Tone 3, Byzantine Chant)
18. Israel, My First Born Son (Three stichera of the Praises of Matins of Holy Friday, Tone 3, Byzantine Chant)
19. All Creation was changed (Aposticha Sticheron of Vespers of Holy Friday, Tone 1, Bulgarian Chant)
20. Today, the Most Pure Virgin (Aposticha Sticheron of Matins of Holy Friday, Tone 1, Znamenny Chant)
21. Joseph Together with Nicodemus (Vespers Aposticha Sticheron, Tone 5, Pskov Chant)
22. Today a Tomb Holds Him (Sticheron from the Praises of Matins of Holy Saturday, Tone 2, Kievan Chant)
23. Come, Let Us See Our Life (Sticheron from the Praises of Matins of Holy Saturday, Tone 2, Kievan Chant)
24. Today, Hell Groans: Sticheron 5 (Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday, Tone 8, Lesser Znamenny Chant)
25. Today, Hell Groans: Sticheron 6 (Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday, Tone 8, Lesser Znamenny Chant)
26. Arise, O God (Verses of Psalm 81 (82) from the Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday, Tone 7, Byzantine Chant)
27. Let All Mortal Flesh (Hymn of the Great Entrance for the Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday, Valaam Chant)
28. The Lord Awoke (Communion Verse for the Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday, Znamenny melody, adaption)
29. Let God Arise ( Paschal Matins Stichera of the Praises, Tone 5, Znamenny Chant)
30. The Angel Cried (9th Ode of the Paschal Canon, Valaam Chant, setting by M. Balakirev)
31. Khristos Voskrese / Christ is Risen ( Paschal Troparion, Serbian Chant)
32. And Unto Us ( Paschal “Dismissal Hymn“”, Tone 8, Znamenny Chant)
