Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete & Cyprus
$9.98 – $17.98
This profoundly moving and powerful music bears witness to how ancient Greek and Latin liturgical traditions were richly embellished during the Renaissance on the islands of Crete and Cyprus, all within the shared cultural space of Venetian rule. First performed by Cappella Romana at the Early Music Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands).
- Venite et ploremus
Johannes de Quadris
soloists: Aaron Cain, Mark Powell
Liber sacerdotalis (1523) of Alberto Castellani
Audio Player - Popule meus
soloist: Kerry McCarthy
Liber sacerdotalis
Audio Player - Sticherón for the Holy Passion: Ἤδη βάπτεται (“Already the pen”)
2-voice setting (melos and “ison”)
Manuel Gazēs the Lampadarios (15th c.)
MS Duke, K. W. Clark 45
soloists: Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer - Cum autem venissent ad locum
de Quadris
Liber sacerdotalis
soloists: Aaron Cain, Mark Powell
Audio Player - O dulcissime
de Quadris
Liber sacerdotalis
soloists: Photini Downie Robinson, Kerry McCarthy
Audio Player - Verses of Lamentation for the Holy Passion (Ed. A. Gregoriou)
MS Duke 34, Mode Plagal 2
Audio Player - Sepulto Domino
de Quadris
Liber sacerdotalis
soloists: Spyridon Antonopoulos, Aaron Cain, Mark Powell - Attollite portas (“Lift up your gates”)
Liber sacerdotalis
celebrant: Mark Powell
Audio Player - Ἄρατε πύλας (“Lift up your gates”)
Anon. Cypriot (late 15th c.?), MS Sinai Gr. 1313
Audio Player - Attollite portas … Quem queritis …
Liber sacerdotalis
Audio Player - Χριστὸς ἀνέστη (“Christ has risen”)
Cretan Melody as transcribed by Ioannis Plousiadenós (ca. 1429–1500), MS Dionysiou 570
Audio Player - Venetian Paschal Greeting: Surrexit Christus!
Liber sacerdotalis
celebrant: Mark Powell
Audio Player - Χριστὸς ἀνέστη
Cantus grecus Christus surrexit, MS Faenza 117 - Gloria in excelsis, sung in Grek
Gazēs and Plousiadenós, Mode 1
Audio Player - The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, sung in Greek
The “New” Cantors of Crete, MS Sinai 1552, Mode Plagal 4
Audio Player - Communion Verse for Easter: Σῶμα Χριστοῦ μεταλάβετε (“Receive the Body of Christ”)
Ioannis Laskaris (15th c.), Mode Plagal 2 “Nenano”
Audio Player - Communion Verse: Ὁ ἑωρακὼς ἐμέ (“One who has seen me”), John 14:9
An Old [Cretan] Melody Embellished by Hieronymos Tragodistēs of Cyprus (16th c.)
MS Sinai Gr. 1313, Mode Plagal 4 - A Tropárion from the 9th Ode of the Paschal Canon by St. John of Damascus: Ὢ Πάσχα τὸ μέγα (“O Great Pascha”)
In polyphony
Hieronymos Tragodistēs
Audio Player - Káthisma Theotokion “as sung on the Holy Mountain”
Angelos Gregoriou, MS Dionysiou 570, Mode Plagal 4
Audio Player - Kalophonic Theotokíon for Cardinal Bessarion
Plousiadenós
soloists: Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer
From the Byzantine and Venetian Commemorations of the Paschal Triduum
The Crucifixion and Deposition
Audio PlayerTraditional Melody of the Sticherarion — Mode Plagal 4
Audio PlayerThe Resurrection
Audio PlayerNew Greek Chants of the Eucharist
Audio PlayerByzantine Hymns to the Mother of God
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