Theotokos, Our Hope

Theotokos, Our Hope

Artist: Choir of the Holy Convent of the Annuncia, Ormylia
Item number: AB031
Category: Byzantine
Chant Type: Byzantine
Language: Greek
Label: Indiktos
Period: Contemporary
Length: 73'47
Release date: 2005
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1. Bells - Hail Mary, Tone 2

2. Beyond understanding, Tone 3

3. Thy beauty, Tone 3

4. Come, O people, Tone 2 & Beyond understanding, Tone 8

5. Virgin Theotokos, Tone 5 & It is meet, Tone 1

6. Moses foretold - Kratema, Tone 6

7. All generations call, Tone 1

8. Glory, now and ever & When the translation, Tone 6

9. My heart is inditing, Tone 7

10. I open my mouth, Legetos tone & Hail O Queen, Tone 4

11. Glory, now and ever & The virgin

12. The angel cried, Tone 1

13. Your pure child-bearing - Kratema, Tone 1

14. All Holy Mother & All my hope, Tone 2


A re-release of the collection of hymns to the Theotokos, found on the previous CD titled "Akatalipton Esti" with some additional hymns. As before in this production, the hymns provide a distinctive selection of Byzantine chant dedicated to the Virgin Mary, sung in the unique and particularly moving style of the Nuns of the Convent at Ormylia, Greece. In CD sleeve format, with copy in Greek and English, no hymn text or liner notes.

By: Benjamin Williams

This recording and its predecessor have become the signature CDs that represent the singing of Nuns of the Convent at Ormylia, Greece. The new release changes a few hymns, adds the improvement of re-engineering and new packaging, and will certainly continue as a masterpiece of Byzantine chant in the female voice.