Cappella Romana: A Portrait – The Byzantine Choral Tradition from Constantinople to California

Kontakion for Great and Holy Friday, Prologue

St Romanos the Melodist (6^th c.)
MS St. Petersburg gr. 674 (13^th c.)
Ed. Ioannis Arvanitis

Sticheron for the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

St Kassia the Nun (9th c.)
MS St. Petersburg gr. 674 (13th c.)
Ed. Ioannis Arvanitis

Passion Sticheron “Already the Pen”

1. 2-voice setting (melos and “ison”)
2. Melody of the Old Sticherarion

Ed. Alexander Lingas

Manuel Gazes the Lampadarios (15th c.)
MS Duke, K. W. Clark 45, copied by Angelos Gregoriou, pupil of Gazes

Standing by the Cross

Tenor voice from Corfu, MS Platytera Monastery 31 (17^th c.) / Polyphony reconstructed by Eustathios Makris

Megalynarion for the Meeting of the Lord

Ioannis Ch. N.Chaviaras (1802–1875) and Benedict Randhartinger (1802–1893)

From The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom:

Ordinary Megalynarion (Mode Plagal 4)

Elias P. Κ. Logothetis and Louis Albert Bourgault-Ducourdray (1840–1910)

Kontakion of the Annunciation

Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962)

Apolytikion for St. Demetrios

Michael Adamis (1929–2013)

Apolytikion of Pentecost

Frank Desby (1922–92)

Communion Verse for the Sunday after Easter

Desby

Ordinary Megalynarion (Mode Plagal 4)

Tikey Zes (1927–2025)

Kontakion of the Dead

Theodore Bogdanos (b. 1932–2019)

From The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom:

• 2^nd Antiphon and Troparion “Only-begotten Son”
• “Of Thy Mystical Supper”

Peter Michaelides (1927–2017)

Lord, I Cry unto Thee

Steven Cardiasmenos (b. 1958)

Cherubic Hymn (Mode Plagal 4)

Zes

Love Bade Me Welcome

Sir John Tavener (1944–2013)

The Troparion of Kassianí

Ivan Moody (1964–2024)

From Triodion: Ode II: O Most Holy Birth-giver of God, Save Us

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

From All-Night Vigil: “Blessed is the Man” (First Kathisma of the Psalter)

Robert Kyr (b. 1952)