Chant: Chant Traditions of the Orthodox Christian Church
Author: St. Vladimir's Seminary Chorale
This CD, like its companion, I-66, represents the long-awaited resumption of liturgical music recordings from St. Vladimir’s Seminary. Both recordings demonstrate the degree to which traditional chants—Russian znamenny, Bulgarian, Byzantine, Serbian and others—have attained a position of prominence in the practice of the Seminary Chapel.
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
1. Znamenny Chant Gladsome Light
2. Serbian Chant Vespers Prokeimenon for Tuesday
3. Byzantine Tone 6 St. Symeon's Prayer
4. Byzantine Tone 1 Praise the Name of the Lord
5. Byzantine Tone 5 Resurrectional Evlogitaria
6. Serbian Chant Magnificat
7. Byzantine Tone 3 Great Doxology
8. Znamenny Chant Resurrectional Matins Troparion
9. Georgian Chant Trisagion
10. Znamenny Chant Cherubic Hymn
11. Georgian Chant Melody Cherubic Hymn
12. Bulgarian Chant Hymn to the Theotokos
13. Kievan Chant Kontakion 'My soul, my soul, arise
14. Valaam Chant Prayers of Compline
15. Byzantine Chant Communion Hymn - O Taste and See
16. "Bulgarian" Chant Exapostilarion - Thy Bridal Chamber
17. Byzantine Tone 8 Hymn of Kassiane
18. Byzantine Tone 8 Troparion - When the Glorious Disciples
19. Carpatho-Russian Chant Kathisma Hymn - How Could Judas
20. Byzantine Tone 6 Antiphon XV - Today He who hung the earth
21. Bulgarian Chant Kathisma Hymn - The Soldiers Guarding Thy Tomb
22. Serbian Chant Canon Ode 9 - Do Not Lament Me
23. Serbian and Byzantine Paschal Troparion - Christ is Risen
24. Ealy, Gregory Communion Hymn - God Has Gone Up With a Shout
