Monks and Choirs of Kiev Pechersk Lavra Chants of the Russian Orthodox Church Total time: 73:45 Release date: 10/20/03 Location of artist: Kiev, Ukraine This artist has one other album

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A perennial Magnatune best-seller, this transcendent album features 26 hymns from the ancient church, sung by the monks of the historic Kiev-Pechersk cave monastery. Included are rare sacred music pieces by both Rachmaninov and the Italian composer J.Sarti, who was so enraptured by Orthodox singing that he left Italy for Russia in 1724 and lived there the rest of his life. Gorgeously layered, these venerable hymns bring together Byzantine traditions with those of old Russia.

m3u audio streams (if the flash player above doesn't work for you): [hifi lofi] Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file) [hifi lofi] 01-Thy Resurrection (authentic Kiev chant) (4:28) [hifi lofi] 02-Christ's resurrection (S.Rachmaninov) (3:47) [hifi lofi] 03-Forestalling the morning (N.Knegnitsky) (2:10) [hifi lofi] 04-The Body of Christ (A.Bessarabov) (1:46) [hifi lofi] 05-Fall asleep by the flash (old Kiev Chant) (2:10) [hifi lofi] 06-The Easter day proclaiming (4:34) [hifi lofi] 07-Troparion (Sinodal tone) (1:40) [hifi lofi] 08-Bless is the man (authentic Kiev chant) (2:28) [hifi lofi] 09-O gladsome Radiance (2:03) [hifi lofi] 10-Now lettest Thou depart-(anonymous) (1:41) [hifi lofi] 11-O Theotokas and Virgin rejoice (S.Yasinevich) (1:09) [hifi lofi] 12-Psalm 33 (archimandrite Matthew) (3:32) [hifi lofi] 13-Small doxology (anonymous) (1:17) [hifi lofi] 14-From my youth (Kiev-Pechersk chant) (3:24) [hifi lofi] 15-O God forgive me (1:24) [hifi lofi] 16-O Theotokas and Virgin (J.Sarty) (2:28) [hifi lofi] 17-Great doxology (9:35) [hifi lofi] 18-O God strengthen the faith (0:31) [hifi lofi] 19-Many Years (V.Lebedeva) (2:16) [hifi lofi] 20-Christ is borning today (A.Bessarabov) (2:25) [hifi lofi] 21-Unfailing Light (A.Gitnik) (2:46) [hifi lofi] 22-Wonderful news (2:41) [hifi lofi] 23-Kolyadka (Carol) (2:40) [hifi lofi] 24-Christmas Carol (2:07) [hifi lofi] 25-The Child in the crib (2:44) [hifi lofi] 26-God with us (Kiev-Pechersk chant) (5:59)