A 2020 GRAMMY® Nominee for Best Choral Performance and Classical Producer of the Year, and rightly so!

До чего чудесная вещь! И исполнение великолепное! It's wonderful!

Juditha Triumphans

Te Deum (Il canto gregoriano nella tradizione popolare)

Magnificat

In these troubled and difficult times, it is important to anchor oneself even more deeply in God's love and protection. All human efforts to live in security and all attempts to find solutions in the most difficult crises (however justified they may be) are not capable of granting man a definite and stable security. 

In this video, we sing the Tractus (a chant sung in penitential seasons before the Gospel) which puts melody to Psalm 91 in Latin. We hope that the serene flow of this sacred chant will touch souls deeply, offering them God's comfort, whether in times of epidemic, war or whatever situation threatens us. 

According to the ancient monastic tradition, the Catholic Church intones this psalm at Compline (prayer at the end of the day). However, it goes back much further, to the time of the Old Covenant. Even in our own day it can convey to us the comfort that only the Heavenly Father is able to give us: to dwell in the shelter of the Most High in the midst of all tribulations.

Gregorian Psalm 90/91

Alcuni tra i più celebri canti gregoriani accompagnati dall'orchestra sinfonica. Un repertorio intramontabile in una versione ricca di fascino, sonorità e suggestioni.

Salve Regina (tonus solemnis), Anonimo

The Lord is My Light - Psalm 27
Responsorial Psalm

Cor Unum Artists
Paul Jernberg, Composer and Conductor
Cantor: Mark Garrepy

Recorded at St. John the Evangelist Church
Clinton, Massachusetts
June 23, 2025

Audio engineer: Joel Conrad

The Lord is my light - Psalm 27

Our Father In Aramaic

Music: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Beatitudes
Composer: Kurt Sander
Artists: PaTRAM Institute Singers; Peter Jermihov, conductor
Album: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
FRESH! From Reference Recordings (FR-713)
Available April 26, 2019
https://referencerecordings.com/?p=13443

Reference Recordings is very pleased to present the second release in our series from the PaTRAM Institute, rising stars whose debut album on our label, Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes (FR­727SACD), has recently garnered a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Choral Performance. The music performed on this new recording of Russian Orthodox choral music in the English language was written by Dr. Kurt Sander.

Conductor Peter Jermihov writes: “The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Kurt Sander is unique in several respects. Within the body of repertoire contained in the Russian­based jurisdictions of North America (Moscow Patriarchate, Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and the Orthodox Church in America), it is the first and only complete setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in English. Rooted in the 19th Century Russian models of such masters as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Gretchaninoff, and others, Sander’s Liturgy grows out of the monumental choral edifices of these masters and rightfully belongs in their midst.”

The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Singers, a highly professional group of Russian and American male and female vocalists, joined by soloists Evan Bravos, Keven Keys, Protodeacon Vadim Gan, Glenn Miller, and Daniel Shirley. PaTRAM Institute Singers and Reference Recordings are planning several more CD releases over the next 5 years with Dr. Peter Jermihov as artistic director and conductor.

The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Kurt Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Beatitudes

Salve Regina

Track 12

Track 11

Veni, creátor Spíritus
mentes tuórum vísita,
imple supérna grátia,
quae tu creásti péctora.
 
Qui díceris Paráclitus,
donum Dei altíssimi,
fons vivus, ignis, cáritas
et spiritális únctio.
 
Tu septifórmis múnere,
dextrae Dei tu dígitus
tu rite promíssum Patris
sermóne ditans gúttura.
 
Accénde lumen sénsibus,
infúnde amórem córdibus,
infírma nostri córporis,
virtute firmans pérpeti.
 
Hostem repéllas lóngius
pacémque dones prótinus;
ductóre sic te práevio
vitémus omne nóxium.
 
Per te sciámus da Patrem
noscámus atque Fílium,
te utriúsque Spíritum
credámus omni témpore. Amen.

Venicreator

Conditor Alme Siderum

We at RR believe that how a recording sounds is as important as the music itself. "Prof." Keith O. Johnson, our chief engineer and Technical Director, is a true audio legend, having designed and patented many innovative products in the professional and consumer fields. The RR Sound comes from his singular methods and equipment, hand-built or extensively modified by him. Microphone techniques range from single-point Blumlein to spaced omnis to complex studio mixes, depending on the musical forces and the performing space involved. Our goal is to recreate the sound of real musicians making music in real space.

Kurt Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Beatitudes

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