Orthodox Church

These new CDs are not being introduced as a simple addition to the consumer market, as they were produced with the consciousness that authentic Byzantine melody is not music intended for popular consumption, nor can it become an object of commercialization. On the contrary, Byzantine music belongs to the realm of transcendence. It is word [logos] in musical form, the word of revelation and disclosure of truth and the experience of the Church that is not related to the provocation of the senses, emotion, pleasure, or delight. The beauty, therefore, of Byzantine music does not have an aesthetic basis, but rather an ontological one, which imprints and defines this beauty in both an iconic and Eucharistic fashion in the Divine Services.

Chor der Spiritaner Knechtsteden - Die heilige Liturgie der Ostkirche
Choir of the spiritans of Knechsteden Abbey - The holy liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church
FLAC, EAC, LOG & CUE | Lossless Artwork | Size: 395 MB
Label/Cat#: Hänssler 98.115 | Country/Year: Germany 1995
Genre: Sacred | Hoster: Filepost/Uploaded/Filefactory

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an autonomous Church of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine, under the ecclesiastic jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. It is locally referred to as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).

All-Night Vigil has been recognised as a supreme achievement in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. Together with the choral symphony The Bells, it is one of Rachmaninov’s favourite compositions. As a coupling the Netherlands Radio Choir have chosen to record one of Rachmaninov's earliest works, composed in 1893 and unpublished in his lifetime. The Theotokos, Ever-Vigilant in Prayer is a hymn to the Virgin – ‘the one who gives birth to God’ – and clearly aims to exploit the skill of a first-class choir, with its varied textures, tempos and wide range of dynamics.

This glorious recording from the choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle includes The Lamb, perhaps one of the best-known choral works of the late twentieth century.