RUSSIAN EASTER / PASCHA: Ruské Pravoslavné Velikonoce (CD)

THE RUSSIAN HOLY EASTER
FESTAL HYMNS OF THE TRINITY-ST. SERGIUS LAURA
1. The Laura’s Bell-Ringing and Procession 2. The Easter Beginning Moscow tune 3. The Easter Canon (Moscow tune of the Kiev chant) 4. The Collect-Hymn Of Easter, Tune of the Trinity-St. Sergius Laura 5. The Ikos of Easter (Valaam tune) 6. “The Angel Cried” (“Shine, Shine”) 7. The Exapostilarion of Easter (Greek chant) 8. The Canticlesof Easter (Tune of the Zosima hermitary, arranged by hieromonk Nafanail) 9. “Christ Is Risen” (A. Kastalsky)10. “Come, O Ye People Let Us Worship the Godhead in Three Persons...” (Tune of the Trinity-St. Sergius Laura)11. The Great Litany (A. Kastalsky) 12. Docmatik, The 7th tone (Znamenny chant) 13. The Great Gradual (“WhatThe God Is So Great As Out Good”, Moscow tune, Kanonarch hegumen Makari (Vaskin)) 14. The Stazafor the Assumption of the Most Holy Birth-Giver Of God (Great Znamenny chant) 15. “Lord, Now Lettest Thou...” (Demestvenny chant) 16. “Praise Ye The Name of the Lord” (Kiev chant) 17. The Exaltation of Pentecost (Znamenny chant) 18. The Assembly of the Angels (Znamenny chant) 19. “In That We Have Beheld the Resurrectionof Christ...” 20. “Chosen by the Lord of Hosts” 21. A Prayer to St. Sergius (S. Zubachevsky) 22. An Exaltationto St. Sergius (Putevoi chant) 23. The Lord Is My Light (A. Nikolsky) 24. “Many Years” (Tune of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod) Total time: 76.31

Choir of the Trinity-St. Sergius Laura and Moscow Theological Academy conducted by archimandrite Matthew (Mormyl)

Recorded in 1978