Prince of Peace (Anarchos Theos)

Prince of Peace (Anarchos Theos)

Artist: Romeiko Ensemble
Item number: AB089
Category: Byzantine
Chant Type: Byzantine
Language: Greek
Label: Melodiko Karavi
Period: Contemporary
Length: 44'34
Release date: 2001
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1. Apolytikion, Mode 4

2. Kathisma, Mode 4

3. Kontakion, Mode 3

4. Katabasia, Mode I

5. Exaposteilarion, Mode 3

6. Apolytikia of St. Basil and the feast, Mode 1

7. Vespers Sticheron, Mode 7

8. Kontakion, Mode 3

9. Apolytikion, Mode 1

10. Sticheron after Psalm 50, Mode 6

11. Kontakion, Mode 4

12. Byzantine Carols

13. Carols from Kerasounta, Asia Minor

14. Carols from Thrace

15. Carols from Crete

16. Carols from Peloponnese

17. Carols from Ikaria

18. Carols from Rhodes


A beautifully designed small harb bound book of 81 pages in full color, high quality paper, with accompanying CD. Chapters include: If It be Your Desire, The Prophesies For The Messiah; The Gospel of Nativity; The Church Fathers on the Nativity of Christ; The Ethos of the God-Man; The Icon of the Nativity; Selections from the Hynmography of Christmas; What Shall We Bring Thee, O Christ' Basil the Great and Church Tradition; Theophany; Customs of the dodecahemeron; The Music and hymn text. In addition to the text the book is replete with many icons that illustrate the subject areas of the Nativity of Christ.

By: Benjamin Williams

The purpose of this project was to convey the naute and meaning of "Christmas" in Greece; that is, in an old world Orthodox country. The reason is that Christmas there not only means the Nativity, but includes the Forefeast of the Nativity and spans into early January with the Feasts of St. Basil and Epiphany. Thus it is longer and more meaningful than a one day semi-commercial event as it has been reduced to in so much of Western society. The book and CD deliver what could be called "The Nativity of Christ in word, icon and song." Included in full-color are icons of the feasts and the Lord, plus commentary on the feasts, quotations from the Fathers, and complete hymn text in Greek and English. The recording spans all of the mentioned Feasts and includes Christmas Carols from various regions. A true sampling of the celebration of the Nativity in Greece, and a wonderful addition to any household.