Byzantium in Rome: Medieval Byzantine Chant
$14.98 – $23.98
Cappella Romana offers two CDs in this release: Byzantium in Rome. It features a groundbreaking collection of medieval Byzantine chant from the Abbey of Grottaferrata, located in the suburban hills of Rome. Led by virtuoso cantor Ioannis Arvanitis, Cappella Romana recaptures the artistic vibrancy of medieval Italy’s Greek minority with ecstatic 13th-century chants for St. Benedict, the monastery’s founders St. Bartholomew and St. Nilos, and for the feast of Pentecost.
- Kontakion for St. Bartholomew of Grottaferrata (short melody)
Melody: MS St Petersburg gr. 674
Audio Player - Ode 1 of the Kanon for St. Benedict
Text: St Neilos; Melody: MS Grottaferrata E.γ. II
Audio Player - Kontakion for St. Neilos of Grottaferrata (psaltikon melody)
Soloist: Ioannis Arvanitis; MS Florence Ashburnhamensis 64
Audio Player - Ode 9 of the Kanon for St. Benedict
Text: St Neilos; Melody: MS Grottaferrata E.γ.II
Audio Player - Kontakion for St. Bartholomew of Grottaferrata (psaltikon melody)
Soloist: Ioannis Arvanitis; MS Florence Ashburnhamensis 64
Audio Player - Three Stichera Prosomoia for St. Benedict (Mode Plagal IV)
Text: St Neilos; Melody: MS Vatopedi 1493 - Ode 1 of the Iambic Kanon (Mode IV)
Melody: MS Grottaferrata E.γ.II
Audio Player - Alleluiarion in Mode 1 (Ps. 32:6, 13)
Soloists: Ioannis Arvanitis, John Michael Boyer
MS Florence Ashburnhamensis 64
Audio Player - Ode 9 of the First Kanon of Pentecost
Melody: MS Grottaferrata E.γ.II
Audio Player - Communion Verse (Ps. 142:10b)
MS Grottaferrata Γ.γ.I - Small litany and psalm intonation Audio Player
- Stichologia Audio Player
- Glory. Both now.
MS Florence Ashburnhamensis 64
Disc One: The Founders of Grottaferrata
Audio PlayerDisc Two: The Feast of Pentecost
Audio PlayerTeleutaion (final antiphon) of the Kneeling Vespers (Ps. 18)
Soloists: Ioannis Arvanitis (choir leader);
Alexander Lingas (deacon); John Michael Boyer (priest)