Music: Idiomelon from Matins for the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican
Composer: Kassianí
Artists: Cappella Romana & Alexander Lingas (director)
Album: Hymns of Kassianí (CR-422)
Label: Cappella Records
UPC/EAN: 746839858992
Release Date: April 16, 2021
Order now: https://cappellaromana.org/kassiani

On April 16th Cappella Records is proud to present the release of Hymns of Kassianí performed by Cappella Romana, Alexander Lingas, music director.

Discover the world’s earliest music by a female composer: 9th-century nun, poet, and hymnographer Kassianí (Kassía).

The same men and women of Cappella Romana who brought you the Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia bestseller (44 weeks on Billboard), now sing the earliest music we have by a female composer, including long-suppressed hymns recorded here for the first time.

They close with two medieval versions of her beloved hymn for Orthodox Holy Week.

Cappella Romana is the world’s leading ensemble in the field of medieval Byzantine chant. Building on its extensive catalogue of this repertoire, Hymns of Kassianí is its 25th release. This is the first of a planned series to record all of Kassianí’s surviving works.

Hymns of Kassianí

Kassianí: Idiomelon from Matins for the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican

Sentimenti

Ψαλμοί Σιμωνόπετρας Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας

Ψαλμοὶ Σιμωνόπετρας Ἱερὰ Μονὴ Σίμωνος Πέτρας

Music: In Procession to the Mount of Olives Antiphon 1 in Mode Plagal 4
Artists: Cappella Romana
Album: Good Friday in Jerusalem
Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Street Date: February 10, 2015

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Alexander Lingas, artistic director and soloist; Stelios Kontakiotis, principal soloist; Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer, Constantine Kokenes, Mark Powell, melodists;
Theodor Dumitrescu, David Krueger, Adam Steele, David Stutz, isokrates; Ioannis Arvanitis, performing editions;

Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Athens, Utrecht, Regensburg, and in the US Northwest all demonstrate how Cappella Romana “continues its ascent” (Wall Street Journal).

With Good Friday in Jerusalem, Cappella Romana’s intrepid male ensemble features international cantors from Greece, the UK, and the US, with Stelios Kontakiotis from Tinos, Greece, as principal soloist. Together they perform these chants with captivating modal inflections that underscore the deep pathos and personal drama of Good Friday. These profound selections for the 8th- and 9th-century ceremonies invoke an elaborate stational liturgy in Jerusalem’s most sacred Christian sites. Recorded in the splendid Stanford Memorial Church and sung in Byzantine Greek.

Extensive scholarly article by founding artistic director Dr. Alexander Lingas (City University London, University of Oxford), with full texts in Greek and translations in English.

In Procession to the Mount of Olives

Акафист святителю Иоанну Чудотворцу, Шанхайскому и Сан-Францисскому (Максимовичу)

Divna Ljubojevic - Agni Partene - O Virgin Pure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1FzSC8DBs
Lyrcis: 
На Српском
Чиста Дјево Владичице, непорочна Богородице,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Мати Дјево Господарко, под чијим смо сви окриљем,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Од сила Небеских виша си, од зрака сунца сјајнија,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Радости хорова девојачких, од анђела узвишенија,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Од небеса си сјајнија, од светлости чистија,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Од свих сила анђелских Ти си светија,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Маријо, увек Дјево, Господарко Света,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Непорочна Невесто, свечиста Госпођо Пресвета,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Маријо Невесто Господарко, Изворе наше радости,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Девојко смерна Царице, Пресвета Мајко,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Од Херувима часнија, од Серафима славнија,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Од бестелесних небеских сила узвишенија,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Преклињем Те, Владичице, Тебе сада призивам,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Теби се клањам, Свевладарко, Твоју милост тражим,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Девојко смерна, Пречиста, Владичице Пресвета,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Тебе призивам усрдно, о Храме освећени,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Заштити ме и избави од непријатеља,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!
Покажи ме наследником Вечнога Живота,
Радуј се, Невесто Неневесна!

English Translation

O Virgin Pure
by St. Nectarios
Plagal First Tone (Tone 5)
Refrain: Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!
O Virgin pure, immaculate/ O Lady Theotokos
O Virgin Mother, Queen of all/ and fleece which is all dewy
More radiant than the rays of sun/ and higher than the heavens
Delight of virgin choruses/ superior to Angels.
Much brighter than the firmament/ and purer than the sun's light
More holy than the multitude/ of all the heav'nly armies.
Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!
O Ever Virgin Mary/ of all the world, the Lady
O bride all pure, immaculate/ O Lady Panagia
O Mary bride and Queen of all/ our cause of jubilation
Majestic maiden, Queen of all/ O our most holy Mother
More hon'rable than Cherubim/ beyond compare more glorious
than immaterial Seraphim/ and greater than angelic thrones.
Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!
Rejoice, O song of Cherubim/ Rejoice, O hymn of angels
Rejoice, O ode of Seraphim/ the joy of the archangels
Rejoice, O peace and happiness/ the harbor of salvation
O sacred chamber of the Word/ flow'r of incorruption
Rejoice, delightful paradise/ of blessed life eternal
Rejoice, O wood and tree of life/ the fount of immortality.
Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!
I supplicate you, Lady/ now do I call upon you
And I beseech you, Queen of all/ I beg of you your favor
Majestic maiden, spotless one/ O Lady Panagia
I call upon you fervently/ O sacred, hallowed temple
Assist me and deliver me/ protect me from the enemy
And make me an inheritor/ of blessed life eternal.
Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!


Voices in The Heaven

Puer Natus in Bethlehem
Gregorian Chant, 15th. Century

performed by the chamber Chorus Anonymous
In a Capella


Puer Natus in Bethlehem (Gregorian Chant) - Chorus Anonymous

Argishty (duduk) - Threshing Song

† Divna Ljubojević - Vozbranoj Vojevodje †

Песнопение Сладчайшему Иисусу в исполнении матушек монастыря Самтавро, Мцхета, Грузия.

To Sweetest Jesus (Sisters of Samtavro Monastery, Georgia)

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