All music here has been downloaded from the internet
and, as far as I have been able to find, are copyright free. If you are
the copyright holder and wish this files removed e-mail me and I will do so as
fast as I can. The original mp3 files can be found at the following
sites.
1st Album:
Orthodox Pasca (Easter) Resurrection
Service
Preformed by the combined choirs of
St. John of the Ladder (Greenville SC), Holy Apostles (Columbia, SC), and Holy
Ascension (Charleston, SC).
This was some of the first Orthodox music I ever
heard.
Downloaded from Orthotracks.org
2nd Album:
Hymns of Holy
Week
Preformed by the Choir of Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (San
Francisco, CA).
Downloaded from Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathredral
3rd Album
The
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
as composed by Sergi
Rachmaninoff
Performers unknown.
The language used is Old Church Slavonic,
a language related to Russian used in liturgical services in Slavic
nations.
Downloaded from what is, as far as I can tell, a web site of the Serbian
Orthodox Church of the Netherlands, in
Serbian.
4th Album
All Night Vigil
as
composed by Sergi Rachmininoff
Performers unknown. (Church
Slavonic)
Downloaded from a web site of the Serbian
Orthodox Church of the Netherlands, in Serbian.
5th
Album
Easter on Mt. Athos
I found this on a public FTP site and don't
know much about it. On Mt. Athos there are 20 monastaries and many small
sketes. I don't know if this music is from a single monastary or a
combination of several. Most are Greek, so I am assuming the language used
here is Greek.
Downloaded from svetoslavlje.org FTP site.
6th Album
Various
Hymns
Chorus under Konstantinos Fotopoulos
I got this from a Russian
web site. There are many other albums available for free download, most
are in Russian, some in Greek. Copy the link and paste it into Google's
search box. It will give you the option to translate it so you can make
some sense out of what is listed. Click on the music note for the list of
albums. I couldn't tell exactly but this seems to be hymns from the
liturgy and other services. The language used is Greek.
Downloaded from
predanie.ru.
7th Album
Praise to the Lord of Heaven.
Spiritual Hymns of 19th
and 20th Century Russian Composers
I only recognize one of these hymns, the
Lord's Prayer. The others may be traditional Orthodox hymns that were
composed by modern Russians, or maybe even written by them.
Downloaded
from predanie.ru.
8th Album
Choir of the Valaam
Monastery
Northern Athos
Official Website of Valaam Monastery
Founded somewhere
between the 10th and 15th centuries, Valaam is one of the most well known
monasteries in the world. This album takes its name from a nickname for
the monastery. It is called the northern Athos because the spirituality of
Valaam equals that of the monasteries of Mt. Athos. I found a web site
where this album is sold, Musica Russica, and I was able to get the track list in
English. There are two main types of hymns, traditional
Byzantine and Znamenny, which is a Russian form of church singing that developed
as the Byzantine musical tradition developed in Russia. There are also
three other hymns, one each from Kiev, St. Elijah Skete on Mt. Athos, and the
Lavra of the Holy Trinity and St.Sergius. All hymns are in
Slavonic.
Downloaded from predanie.ru.
There are several Valaam albums on this site, this one is the
second.