Venice in the East

Venice in the East
Renaissance Crete & Cyprus
Cappella Romana - Alexander Lingas, dir.
Cappella Romana CR-419 [CD]

Contents:

    From the Byzantine and Venetian Commemorations of the Paschal Triduum

    The Crucifixion and Deposition
  1. Venite et ploremus (Johannes de Quadris - Liber sacerdotalis (1523) of Alberto Castellani)
    Soloists: Aaron Cain, Mark Powell
  2. Popule meus (Liber sacerdotalis)
    Soloist: Kerry McCarthy
  3. Sticherón for the Holy Passion, 2-voice setting (melos and "ison") (Manuel Gazes the Lampadarios, 15th c.)
    Soloists: Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer
    Traditional Melody of the Sticherarion (Mode Plagal 4)
  4. Cum autem venissent ad locum (de Quadris - Liber sacerdotalis)
    Soloists: Aaron Cain, Mark Powell
  5. O dulcissime (de Quadris - Liber sacerdotalis)
    Soloists: Photini Downie Robinson, Kerry McCarthy
  6. Verses of Lamentation for the Holy Passion ("Corrected by" Angelos Gregoriou - MS Duke 45, Mode Plagal 2)
  7. Sepulto Domino (de Quadris - Liber sacerdotalis
    Soloists: Spyridon Antonopoulos, Aaron Cain, Mark Powell

    8. The Resurrection
  8. Attollite portas ("Lift up your gates") (Liber sacerdotalis)
    Celebrant: Mark Powell
  9. Attollite portas [Greek version] (Anon. Cypriot (late 15th c.?), MS Sinai Gr. 1313
  10. Attollite portas - Quem queritis (Liber sacerdotalis)
  11. "Christ has risen" [Greek version 1] (Cretan Melody as transcribed by Ioannis Plousiadenós (ca. 1429-1500), MS Dionysiou 570)
  12. Venetian Paschal Greeting: Surrexit Christus! (Liber sacerdotalis)
    Celebrant: Mark Powell
  13. "Christ has risen" [Greek version 2] (Cantus grecus Christus surrexit, MS Faenza 117)

    14. New Greek Chants of the Eucharist
  14. Gloria in excelsis [sung in Greek] (Gazes and Plousiadenós - Mode 1)
  15. The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed [sung in Greek] (The "New" Cantors of Crete - MS Sinai 1552, Mode Plagal 4)
  16. Communion Verse for Easter: "Receive the Body of Christ" (Ioannis Laskaris, 15th c. - Mode Plagal 2 "Nenano")
  17. Communion Verse: "One who has seen me" [John 14:9] (An Old [Cretan] Melody Embellished by Hieronymos Tragodistes of Cyprus, 16th c. - MS Sinai Gr. 1313, Mode Plagal 4)

    18. Byzantine Hymns to the Mother of God
  18. A Tropárion from the 9th Ode of the Paschal Canon by St. John of Damascus: "O Great Pascha" (Hieronymos Tragodistes)
  19. Káthisma "as sung on the Holy Mountain" (Angelos Gregoriou - MS Dionysiou 570, Mode Plagal 4)
  20. Kalophonic Theotokíon for Cardinal Bessarion (Plousiadenós)
    Soloists: Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer

Performers:
Cappella Romana
Alexander Lingas, dir.
Sopranos: Rebekah Gilmore, Photini Downie Robinson, Catherine van der Salm
Altos: Kristen Buhler, Emily Lau, Kerry McCarthy
Tenors: Spyridon Antonopoulos, Richard Barrett, Nicholas Fine
Basses: John Michael Boyer, Aaron Cain, David Krueger, Mark Powell, David Stutz

Playing time: 74' 46"

Recording site and date:
St. Stephen Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon [April 22-26, 2018];
Rel.: August 30, 2019

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Jorge Salazar