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The best way for the listener to the plainchant of the Western Christian church to get an idea of how it was originally used is to attend an Orthodox church service, where everyone is standing and singing for most of the time, and the music is not an abstract elaboration of the meaning of the service but the meaning's primary carrier. The same is true of this recording of Good Friday music that might have been heard at and around the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in medieval Jerusalem, even if the performances were taped in Stanford, California, by the male singers of the U.S.-based Cappella Romana. The word "around" is used because the Greek-language service music heard here was, to use one of the many new words listeners will learn if they buy this album, "stational" because it moved from church to church, evoking physically and musically the crucifix procession. Byzantine chant in general is less often sung than the chant of the Western church, although its history is equally long and unbroken. It takes a good deal of scholarly effort to reconstruct a program like this from manuscripts in various places (some are Armenian) and at various levels of notational detail. The result, though, is spectacular. The chants were sung (if this reconstruction is correct) with a low drone note whose resonances are well engineered here, and the chant melodies themselves are densely ornate. The singers of the Cappella Romana execute them crisply and with a sense of connection to the texts, all of which are given in translation in the booklet from Greek to English. The chant types have different names from those in the Roman church, but have roughly the same functions; these, too, are explained. Recommended not only for those planning a trip to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but to anyone curious about Byzantine chant in general.
© TiVo
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Rulers of the Peoples - They Laid a Lawless Charge - Let Us Bring Our Senses (Antiphon 1 in Mode Plagal 4) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Today He Who Hung the Earth Upon the Waters - Your Cross, Lord (Antiphon 15 in Mode Plagal 2) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
The Paradise in Eden (Processional Sticheron in Mode Plagal 4) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Ode 5 (Triodion in Mode Plagal 2) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Kosmas, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Syllabic Melody (Kontakion on the Passion of the Lord) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Romanós, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Psaltikon Melody (Kontakion on the Passion of the Lord) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Romanós, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Ode 8 (Triodion in Mode Plagal 2) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Kosmas, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Ode 9 (Triodion in Mode Plagal 2) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Kosmas, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
O Lord, who on that very day (Exaposteilarion automelon in Mode 3) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Lauds in Mode 4 (Psalms 148-150, Selected Verses) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
When All Creation Saw You Crucified (Sticheron Prosomoion in Mode 4) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
All Creation Was Changed (Sticheron idiomelon in Mode 1) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer - Theophanes Protothronos, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Impious and Lawless People (Sticheron idiomelon in Mode 2) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer - Theophanes Protothronos, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
When She Saw You Hanging on the Cross (Sticheron idiomelon in Mode 2) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer - Leo the Wise VI, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Israel My Firstborn Son (Sticheron idiomelon in Mode 3) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Ioannis Arvanitis)
Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer - Byzantios, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Each Member of Your Holy Flesh (Doxastikon in the Same Mode) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
May You, Lord, Guard Us (Prokeimenon in Mode Plagal 1) (arr. I. Arvanitis for vocal ensemble) (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Cappella Romana, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Lingas, Conductor - Ioannis Arvanitis, Composer
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
Album review
The best way for the listener to the plainchant of the Western Christian church to get an idea of how it was originally used is to attend an Orthodox church service, where everyone is standing and singing for most of the time, and the music is not an abstract elaboration of the meaning of the service but the meaning's primary carrier. The same is true of this recording of Good Friday music that might have been heard at and around the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in medieval Jerusalem, even if the performances were taped in Stanford, California, by the male singers of the U.S.-based Cappella Romana. The word "around" is used because the Greek-language service music heard here was, to use one of the many new words listeners will learn if they buy this album, "stational" because it moved from church to church, evoking physically and musically the crucifix procession. Byzantine chant in general is less often sung than the chant of the Western church, although its history is equally long and unbroken. It takes a good deal of scholarly effort to reconstruct a program like this from manuscripts in various places (some are Armenian) and at various levels of notational detail. The result, though, is spectacular. The chants were sung (if this reconstruction is correct) with a low drone note whose resonances are well engineered here, and the chant melodies themselves are densely ornate. The singers of the Cappella Romana execute them crisply and with a sense of connection to the texts, all of which are given in translation in the booklet from Greek to English. The chant types have different names from those in the Roman church, but have roughly the same functions; these, too, are explained. Recommended not only for those planning a trip to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but to anyone curious about Byzantine chant in general.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:35
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Cappella Romana Alexander Lingas
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Cappella Romana
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) Choral Music (Choirs)
(C) 2017 Cappella Romana (P) 2017 Cappella Romana
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