Ivan Moody: The Akáthistos Hymn

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Album Details

EAN/UPC: 746839858930
Catalog No: CR-418
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Liner Notes

The Akáthistos Hymn to the Virgin Mary, set by Ivan Moody. This lyrical masterpiece in 24 stanzas has been treasured for nearly 1,500 years by Eastern Christians. Father Moody’s 1998 setting, composed specially for the ensemble, weaves beloved Greek melodies into Russian choral textures as it progresses from reverent contemplation to ecstatic transcendence.

This second 2018 edition of Cappella Romana’s original release features updated essays and biographies of the artists. With full texts in English and translations for lyrics in Greek and Slavonic.

    Disc One

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  1. First Koukoulion (original prologue)
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  3. Second Koukoulion
  4. First Stasis

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  5. Ikos One (Original Prologue)
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  7. Ikos Two
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  9. Ikos Three
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  11. Ikos Four
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  13. Ikos Five
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  15. Ikos Six
  16. Second Stasis

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  17. Ikos Seven
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  19. Ikos Eight
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  21. Ikos Nine
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  23. Ikos Ten
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  25. Ikos Eleven
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  27. Ikos Twelve
  28. Disc Two

    Third Stasis

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  29. Ikos Thirteen
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  31. Ikos Fourteen
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  33. Ikos Fifteen
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  35. Ikos Sixteen
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  37. Ikos Seventeen
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  39. Ikos Eighteen
  40. Fourth Stasis

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  41. Ikos Nineteen
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  43. Ikos Twenty
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  45. Ikos Twenty-one
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  47. Ikos Twenty-two
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  49. Ikos Twenty-three
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  51. Ikos Twenty-four
  52. Koukoulion

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  53. Second Koukoulion (again)
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  55. O Tebe raduetsya / О Тебе радуется

Gramophone

As if 96 gorgeous minutes of the Akáthistos Hymn were not value for money, the album is rounded off with a shimmering performance of O Tebe Raduetsya, Moody’s 1990 setting of another hymn to the Virgin, this time from the Russian Orthodox tradition ” –B. Witherden