Mystical Supper: Byzantine Chant in English

Mystical Supper: Byzantine Chant in English

Artist: Boston Byzantine Choir
Item number: AB030
Category: Byzantine
Chant Type: Byzantine
Language: English
Label: Boston Byzantine Choir
Period: Contemporary
Length: 60'58
Release date: 2000
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1. The Great Doxology

2. The Great Ektenia

3. Through The Intercessions

4. The First Little Ektenia

5. O Son of God

6. The Second Little Ektenia

7. Resurrectional Troparion

8. Come Let Us Fall Down

9. Trisagion Hymn

10. Cherubic Hymn

11. The Litany of Supplication

12. The Anaphora

13. It Is Truly Meet

14. One Is Holy

15. Praise Ye The Lord

16. Blessed Is He That Cometh

17. Of Thy Mystical Supper

18. Psalm 117

19. We Have Seen The True Light

20. Let Our Mouths Be Filled

21. Blessed Be The Name of The Lord

22. The Dismissal

23. Him Who Blesses Us


Communion, or the Mystical Supper, is a gathering together on the day of the Lord's Resurrection each Sunday, during which we partake of the divine, holy, immortal, and life-giving and dread mysteries of Christ. These are the cross, the grave, the third-day resurrection, the ascension into heaven, the sitting at the right hand, the second and glorious coming. We experience the Eschaton mystically in the Divine Liturgy in anticipation of that which is to come in the fullness of time. The invitation comes from heaven; the banquet takes place in heaven; and the focus of the event is on the Mystical Supper. The Boston Byzantine Choir has drawn from a variety of sources to make one of the first English settings of St. John Chrysostom's Liturgy done entirely in Byzantine chant.

By: Fr. Apostolos Hill

This, the second work of the Boston Byzantine Choir, is in the same vein as their first. Mystical Supper is a very good, albeit somewhat simplified, rendering of the Liturgy in English. Drawing from such sources as Kazan, Hadjinicolaou, and Kastanas, the music stays squarely in the Byzantine tradition. The 23 tracks of the recording include all of the main points of the Liturgy so that it imparts the essence of the service in a complete and prayerful way. The voices blend nicely and the ambiance of the church in which this was recorded is decently conveyed. A very good recording for relative newcomers to Byzantine music or for anyone looking for a very good rendering of the Divine Liturgy in English.