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Christiane Najjar sings a programme of sacred Arabic hymns of return and mercy, one after another without interruption, in the Eastern church style she has studied as a musicologist.
Christiane Najjar
A full evening of sacred chant by Abeer Nehme, recorded and published by the Beirut Chants Festival itself.
Beirut Chants Festival
One of the lamentations sung at the tomb on Holy Friday, by Nektaria Karantzi with the women's choir Psaltries.
Nektaria Karantzi
A short chant on the Lord as shepherd, from the Maronite and Melkite repertoire she was raised in.
Sister Marie Keyrouz
An audio recording of the ensemble singing the Cherubic Hymn from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy in the ornate Asmatikon style.
Cappella Romana
The Ave Maria sung in Arabic, in the ornamented line of the Eastern churches.
A short set at the Desert Song Festival in Alice Springs, close to where most of the singers live.
Channel NT
A full concert at Three Hierarchs Chapel in New York, part of the choir's American tour in September 2021.
St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
A full concert in Yerevan of Armenian medieval monody and later choral settings.
CafesjianArts
The canon sung for the patron saint of Bucharest, whose relics rest in the cathedral where the choir sings.
TRINITAS TV
A full evening of music at home with his family, close to two hours of Gaelic song alongside country and sixties material.
Calum Martin
A full Hirundo Maris concert of songs from the Mediterranean and the Nordic north, sung and played by Arianna Savall with Petter Udland Johansen, on their own channel.
Arianna Savall & Petter Udland Johansen
An hour of the chants that carry the Orthodox liturgy, sung by the choir of the Patriarchal Cathedral.
A full recording of Ambrosian chant from the Milanese liturgical tradition, directed by Marcel Pérès.
Musica Medievale
A full concert of Melkite sacred chant with the Ensemble de la Paix, the Greek Catholic repertoire of the Arabic-speaking churches.
Ensemble de la Paix
The hymn sung at the great entrance, here in the old Bulgarian chant setting.
Sretensky Monastery Choir
A recording from the Icons of Sound research project, in which Cappella Romana's singing of the Cherubic Hymn is rendered with the reconstructed acoustics of the original Hagia Sophia.
Filmed footage of the ensemble performing a Sunday Communion hymn live during a tour in Greece.
A concert of hymns from the Coptic rite, sung by El Moalem Ibrahim Ayad with the Institute of Coptic Hymns.
Institute of Coptic Hymns
Ialoni perform the traditional polyphonic songs Diash Darjol and Mirangula.
Ialoni • იალონი
A single complete medieval pilgrim hymn from the Compostela vespers repertoire, performed by Ensemble Organum.
Ensemble Organum - Topic
A full Paschal concert of Orthodox chant by Divna Ljubojević and the Melodi choir.
Divna & Melódi
The hymns of the Gregorian liturgy, one of the three eucharistic rites still sung in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Ibrahim Ayad
Ensemble Basiani performs a Christmas carol by the Georgian composer Vakhtang Kakhidze.
Basiani Ensemble
A full-length concert recording of Georgian Orthodox chant and traditional polyphony sung by the ensemble.
A full recital of Maronite, Syriac and Byzantine Good Friday hymns, sung by Christiane Najjar in Arabic and Greek, moving from the night before the passion to the tomb.
Unaccompanied Gaelic psalm singing recorded in Back Free Church on Lewis in 2003, a complete precented psalm from the opening line to the last.
A chanted sermon sung during the Washing of the Feet, one of the ceremonies of Holy Week.
TM Production
The ensemble Ialoni sing a Georgian Orthodox church chant during a concert.
Voices of the Ancestors
A full concert performance by Ensemble Organum of Machaut's medieval polyphonic mass, filmed at the Royaumont abbey.
Royaumont
A complete concert around Hildegard von Bingen and medieval song, with Arianna Savall on voice and harp, recorded by France Musique.
France Musique concerts
"Life lies in the grave", the opening lamentation of the Holy Friday service, sung by Nektaria Karantzi with the Psaltries choir.
A long kalophonic setting from the Byzantine repertoire, sung by the full choir.
Achilleas Chaldaiakis
An audio recording of Cappella Romana's choral setting mourning the fall of Constantinople, sung in Greek.
The Naghash Ensemble performing excerpts from Light the Candle live in Vilnius.
The Naghash Ensemble of Armenia
Excerpts from Light the Candle, a new Armenian Christmas oratorio, performed by the three singers and instrumentalists of the Naghash Ensemble.
A full performance of Orthodox chant by Divna Ljubojević and Melódi at the Morgenland world-music festival in Germany.
Three female vocalists and instrumentalists on duduk, oud and dhol, recorded live at a concert hall in Ghent.
Harpa Dei sing the Magnificat a cappella in Aramaic.
Harpa Dei
The anaphora of the Divine Liturgy, sung by the choir of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow.
The Tasbeha, the night office of the Coptic Orthodox Church, led by the cantor who has taught these melodies to a generation of deacons.
Saint Mina and Pope Cyril VI Coptic Orthodox Church
A full concert in Washington, shared with the Indonesian Children and Youth Choir: Lutheran hymns sung in Western Arrarnta and Pitjantjatjara.
The Kennedy Center
A thirteenth-century hymn by Khachatur Taronatsi, sung by the eight voices of the ensemble.
The Small Supplicatory Canon to the Theotokos, chanted in the Byzantine tradition. It is sung in Orthodox churches through the first two weeks of August.
A Maronite hymn on Mary rising and going out to the hill country, sung in the Lebanese church tradition.
Ghada Shbeir
The Good Friday hymn to the one who wraps himself in light as in a garment.
A complete evening of liturgical hymns sung by Abeer Nehme in the church itself, published on the parish's own channel.
Holy Martyrs Chaldean Church
The lament of the sorrowing mother at the cross, one of the long Holy Week pieces of the Maronite repertoire.
The hymn that closes matins, sung as the light returns.
The fourteenth-century chant that names the signs of Byzantine notation one by one while singing them.
An audio recording of the opening Invitatorium movement from Cappella Romana's Vespers of St. Catherine.
An audio recording of the closing movement of Benedict Sheehan's Ukrainian War Requiem, released by the ensemble's own label.
Harpa Dei sing the Gregorian hymn Veni Creator Spiritus in harmony, a cappella.
A complete live performance of Young Oceans playing Vidi Aquam and All Who Hear in Brooklyn, from their Among the Ruins live series.
Young Oceans
A full concert of Serbian Orthodox liturgical chant performed by Divna Ljubojević and the Melodi choir.
A Maronite hymn for Good Friday, in which Christ addresses his own people from the cross.
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