Divine Liturgy: Tikey Zes
Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. This highly original Liturgy, which Zes dedicated to Cappella Romana, bears the marks of a composer long engaged with the traditions of Orthodox worship. Cumulatively opulent in its variety, level of musical difficulty and ecstatic polyphonic climaxes, this Liturgy achieves a balance of splendor with restraint that is, in an inculturated and dignified musical idiom, thoroughly Byzantine.
Music of purity and radiance. —Gramophone
Album Tracks
- Litany of Peace
- The Three Antiphons
- The Small Entrance
- Trisagion
- Alleluiarion and Gospel
- The Cherubic Hymn
- The Litany of Precious Gifts
- The Holy Oblation
- Megalynarion
- Conclusion of the Holy Oblation
- Litany of the Lord’s Prayer
- Communion Verse for Sunday
- The Communion of the Laity
- Post-Communion and Dismissal
- Prayer Behind the Ambo and Final Dismissal