A programme about Gregorian chant.
Episode 138: Byzantium in the Middle Ages.
In Bonum est’s 138th episode you will hear parts of two services from the Byzantine liturgy before the Fall of Constantinople: the service of three youngsters in the blazing fire (on Sunday before Christmas) and Vespers for Saint Catherine (25th of November).The sources come from the 6th century St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of the Sinai (see picture).
The Service of the Furnace; The Play of the Three Holy Children:
01. Sticheron (Mode 2)
02. First Canticle, Ode 7, The Song of the Three Holy Children, with Refrains
03. Sticheron "The Angel of the Lord Came Down" (Mode Plagal 4)
04. Conclusion of the First Canticle
05. Second Canticle, Ode 8
06. Kalophonic Sticheron "When the tyrant saw" (Mode Plagal 4)
07. Conclusion of the Second Canticle
The Vespers of St. Catherine:
08. Invitatorium (Mode Plagal 4)
09. Proemium (Mode Plagal 4)
10. Anoixantaria by St. John Koukouzelis (Mode Plagal 4)
11. From the Lamplighting Psalms, the Kekragarion (Mode 1)- Psalm 140:1
12. From the Lamplighting Psalms, the Kekragarion (Mode 1) – Psalm 140:2
13. From the Lamplighting Psalms, the Kekragarion (Mode 1) – Psalm 140:3-5
14. Three Stichera Prosomoia for St. Catherine (Mode 1)
Cappella Romana led by Alexander Lingas
CD: Mt Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
(Cappella Romana 2011)
