Good Friday in Jerusalem

Good Friday in Jerusalem
Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Cappella Romana - Alexander Lingas, dir.
Cappella Romana CR-413 [CD]

Contents:

    In Procession to the Mount of Olives
  1. Antiphon 1 in Mode Plagal 4: Rulers of the peoples / They laid a lawless charge / Let us bring our senses

    2. At the Pavement (Lithostroton) in Hagia Sophia
  2. Antiphon 15 in Mode Plagal 2: Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a Tree

    3. In Procession to Golgotha (the Place of the Skull)
  3. Processional Sticheron in Mode Plagal 4: The Paradise in Eden

    4. At Golgotha
  4. Three-Ode Kanon (Triodion) in Mode Plagal 2 by Kosmas the Monk (8th c.) Ode 5
    Kontakion on the Passion of the Lord, by Romanos the Melodist (6th c.) Mode Plagal 4
  5. Syllabic melody
  6. Psaltikon melody
    Stelios Kontakiotis, domestikos
  7. Ode 8
  8. Ode 9
  9. Exaposteilarion automelon in Mode 3
    O Lord, who on that very day
  10. Lauds (Psalms 148-50, selected verses) in Mode 4
    John Michael Boyer, Stelios Kontakiotis, domestikoi
  11. Sticheron prosomoion in Mode 4, [to the melody] You have given us a sign
    When all creation saw you crucified
    Stichera idiomela by Theophanes Protothronos (9th c.)
  12. All creation was changed - Mode 1
  13. Impious and lawless people - Mode 2
  14. Sticheron idiomelon in Mode 2 by Leo VI the Wise (866-912)
    When she saw you (hanging on a cross)
  15. Sticheron idiomelon in Mode 3 by Byzantios
    Israel my firstborn son
  16. Doxastikon in the same mode by a Stoudite (9th c.?)
    Each member of your holy flesh
  17. Prokeimenon in Mode Plagal 1
    May you, Lord, guard us
    Mark Powell, deacon; Stelios Kontakiotis, domestikos

Performers:
Cappella Romana
Alexander Lingas, director & soloist
Singers:
Stelios Kontakiotis, principal soloist
Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer, Constantine Kokenes, Mark Powell, melodists
Theodor Dumitrescu, David Krueger, Adam Steele, David Stutz, isokrates

Playing time: 74' 38"

Recording site and date:
Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, California [February 4-7, 2013];
Rel.: July 17, 2021

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Jorge Salazar