Lamentations

Lamentations

Artist: Archangel Voices
Item number: AJ105
Category: Russian
Chant Type: Russian
Language: English
Label: Archangel Voices
Period: Contemporary
Length: 77'39
Release date: 2009
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1. Alleluia..."Behold the Bridegroom"-Kievan Chant

2. Alleluia....Tropairon "Behold the Bridegroom"-Byzantine Chant

3. Alleuluia...Troparion "Behold the Bridegroom"-Kievan Chant

4. Exaposteliarion: "Thy Bridal Chamber"-Byzantine Chant

5. Come, O Faithful-Lesser Znamenny Chant

6. Antiphon XV, Holy Friday Matins

7. Kontakion "Come, Let Us All Sing"-Common Russian Chant

8. Exaposteliarion "The Wise Thief" (chant version)

9. Exaposteilarion "The Wise Thief (choral version"

10. Exaposteliarion "The Wise Thief IKastalsky)

11. Holy Friday Aposticha-Optina Monastery Melody

12. Holy Friday Aposticha, Doxastichon-Pskov Melody

13. The Nobel Joseph; When Thou Didst Descend; The Angel Came-Byzantine Chant

14. Lamentations, Stasis 1-Byzantine

15. Lamentations, Stasis 2-Byzantine

16. Lamentations, Stasis 3-Byzantine

17. Resurrectional Troparia-Byzantine Chant

18. Canon of Holy Saturday, Ode 1-Lesser Znamenny Chant

19. Caonon of Holy Saturday, Ode 3-Lesser Znamenny Chant

20. Canon of Holy Saturday, Ode 5-Lesser Znamenny Chant

21. Canon of Holy Saturday, Ode 8-Lesser Znamenny Chant

22. Canon of Holy Saturday, Ode 9-Lesser Znamenny Chant

23. The Noble Jospeh-Bulgarian Chant

24. Come, Let us Bless Joseph-Bortniansky


The fifth recording by Archangel Voices of Orthodox Hymns in English is a collection of Orthodox chants of Holy Week. It assembles the best-loved hymns of the Holy Week services, drawn from Byzantine (Greek, Antiochian and Romanian traditions), Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian and American repetoires. Liner notes in English, no hymn text.

By: Benjamin Williams

A recording of this type is a significant undertaking for any ensemble, given the assembly and performance of hymns from such a wide range of chant repetoire. Initial comments have included: "...[the singers] launched out into deep waters of choral beauty that I have really never heard. It was really stunning!" "This project took my breath away!" "...beautiful blend and unified ensemble on a high level of artistry." The choral execution is high quality, and espeically in the performance of "Russian" chant forms the sound is full, rich and lush, and the voices do blend with choral beauty. There will be criticism, however, that they also do that to an unncecssary degree in the performance of the Byzantine hymns, which have a pronouned choral quality than isn't heard in the average Byzantine rite church or monastery. Still, the goal of assembling such a mosaic of hymns centered on the Lamentations services, is commendable, and the sound is beautiful, indeed.