Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West

Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West
Cappella Romana - Alexander Lingas
Cappella Romana 416

Contents:

  1. Responsory: Letare, Ciprus florida
  2. Motet: Gemma florens / Hec est dies
  3. Sticheron for St. Hilarion
  4. Sticheron Doxastikon for St. Hilarion
  5. Motet: Magni patris / Ovent Cyprus
  6. Trisagion of Orthros
  7. Kalophonic Hymn to the Trinity
  8. Kyrie for St. Hilarion
  9. Gloria 10
  10. Alleluia: Ave Sancte Ylarion
  11. Sequence for St. Hilarion
  12. Communion verse for Saints
  13. A Short Kratema
  14. Motet: Da magne pater / Donis affatim perfluit orbis

Performers: Spyridon Antonopoulos, Richard Barrett, John Michael Boyer, Aaron Cain, David Krueger, Emily Lau, Kerry McCarthy, Mark Powell, Melanie Downie Robinson, Catherine van der Salm, David Stutz

Playing time: 65'

Recording date: July 2015 (Portland, Oregon)

Sources for this program are MS Torino J.II.9 (standard French Cypriot manuscript; tracks 1, 2, 5, 8-11, 14), MS Mt. Athos Vatopedi 1493 (track 3), MS Sinai Gr 1471 (track 4), MS Sinai Gr 1313 (track 6), MS Athens 2406 (tracks 7, 12, 13).

More releases from this ensemble/label:

The Fall of Constantinople
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Byzantium in Rome
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Good Friday in Jerusalem
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Sun of Justice
Byzantine Chant for Christmas
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Venice in the East
Renaissance Crete & Cyprus
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Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia
Medieval Byzantine Chant Sung in the Virtual Acoustics of Hagia Sophia
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Hymns of Kassianí
The Earliest Music by a Female Composer
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A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry's Court
Christmas 1400, London
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I've never really tracked the Eastern repertory here though, so there are actually many other albums....

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Todd M. McComb