Resurrection: Chants and Hymns of Holy Pascha

Resurrection: Chants and Hymns of Holy Pascha

Artist: Archangel Voices
Item number: AJ080
Category: Russian
Chant Type: Russian
Language: English
Label: Archangel Voices
Period: Contemporary
Length: 79'38
Release date: 2006
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1. Come, Receive the Light-Byzantine Chant

2. Angels in Heaven - Kievan Chant, Tone 6

3. Paschal Beginning - Znammeny Chant

4. Paschal Canon Ode 1 - Russian Greek Chant

5. Paschal Canon Ode 3 - Russian Greek Chant

6. Hypakoe "Before the Dawn"

7. Paschal Canon Ode 6 - Russian Greek Chant

8. Kontakion "You descended" and Ikos

9. We Have Seen Christ

10. Paschal Canon Ode 8 - Russian Greek Chant

11. Paschal Canon Ode 9 - Russian Greek Chant

12. Exapostilarion - Galician Chant

13. Paschal Stichera "Let God Arise" - Znammeny Chant

14. The Paschal Sermon of St. John Chrysostom

15. Grace Shining Forth - Valaam Chant

16. 1st Paschal Antiphon - as sung by the Choir of Valaam Brethren

17. 2nd Paschal Antiphon - as sung by the Choir of Valaam Brethren

18. 3rd Paschal Antiphon - Byzantine Chant

19. Christ Is Risen - Byzantine Chant

20. Hypakoe of Pascha - Little Znammeny Chant

21. Kontakion of Pascha - Little Znammeny Chant

22. Prokeimenon "this is the Day" - Znammeny Chant

23. Alleluia

24. The Angel Cried - Valaam Chant

25. Receive the Body of Christ - Byzantine Chant

26. Receive the Body of Christ

27. Concerto No. 34 "Let God Arise" - Bortniansky

28. The Angel Cried

29. Christ is Risen - Russian Old Believer Chant

30. Great Prokeimenon "Who Is So Great a God"


Pascha is anticipated as the feast of light and life, and this CD strives to capture that joy. It assembles some of most inspired hymns of Paschal Matins and Divine Liturgy, from both the Slavic and Greek traditions, all vividly and energetically sung in English by an ensemble of professional-level voices. Byzantine, Kievan, Russian "Greek" and Znammeny chants, most of them newly arranged and re-composed for the English language, are intermingled with traditional favorites by Bortniansky and Makarov, also adapted into English. Liner notes in English with complete hymn text.

By: Benjamin Williams

Pascha, the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ, is appropriately known as "the Feast of Feasts" in Orthodox Christian tradition. The hymns of Pascha are among the most beautiful and vibrant in the Orthodox musical tradition, filling all who hear them with a profound sense of joy and excitement. As with its previous CDs, the 13-voice Archangel Voices ensemble demonstrates what can be done on a high level of excellence by a relatively small group of voices. This recording takes it ?up a notch? and provides something special for almost everyone, given the breadth of chant forms included in this cross-section of Paschal hymnology.