Good Friday - Bulgarian Orthodox Liturgy

Good Friday - Bulgarian Orthodox Liturgy

Artist: M. Popsavov, Mixed Choir
Item number: AL006
Category: Bulgarian
Chant Type: Bulgarian
Language: Church Slavonic
Label: Gega New
Period: Contemporary
Length: 64'06
Release date: 1993
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1. The Great Litany

2. The Noble Joseph

3. The Lamentations

4. Eulogitarium

5. Kanon for Good Saturday

6. Small Litany and Holy Lord

7. Every Breath

8. Great Doxology

9. Mournful "Holy God"


The conductor has selected nine of the most popular chants for festive services dedicated to Lord Jesus Christ and his sufferings during the last three days of his earthly life. Famous composers of Russian sacred music like Kedrov, Bakhmetiev and Tchaikovsky, as well as the Bulgarian Dobri Hristov, arranged and harmonized the old church motifs, thus turning them into brilliant pieces full of compassion and glorification of Christ's sacrifice. The chants are sung in Church-Slavonic with the fluency and timbre variety characteristic of East-Orthodox music.

By: Vladimir Morosan

Performed by a fine Bulgarian choir, the selections on the CD reflect a fairly "standard" repetoire that one might hear at the Russian Orthodox Matins of Holy Saturday (typically served on the evening of Great and Holy Friday). The one exception is the hauntingly beautiful "Lamentations" by 20th-century composer Dobri Hristov, which sound deeply rooted in Bulragian folk music and are rendered here not in Church Slavonic, but in the vernacular Bulgarian. rendered here in