The Russian Kontakion of the Departed (Give rest, O Christ)
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2021
- The Russian Kontakion of the Departed (Give rest, O Christ) -- An ancient Kiev chant with origins in the Russian Orthodox liturgy.
Performed by Bryony McIvor, Bethany Reeves, Ralph Skan & George Reynolds
Recorded in Christ Church, East Sheen, July 2021
I Love this!! First heard it at Prince Philip's Funeral, then the Queen's. So beautiful and incredibly moving.
Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy saints:
where sorrow and pain are no more;
neither sighing but life everlasting.
Thou only art immortal, the creator and maker of man:
and we are mortal formed from the dust of the earth,
and unto earth shall we return:
for so thou didst ordain,
when thou created me saying:
“Dust thou art und unto dust shalt thou return.”
All we go down to the dust;
and weeping o’er the grave we make our song:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Thank you!
Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful. Good job! Newly Chrismated with my husband. We have been on the choir at our parish for a year now. So much to learn! Orthodox music on UA-cam has helped a lot. 🙌
Thank you! My wife of 50 years fell asleep in the Lord June 17…Memory Eternal ☦️
May her memory be eternal brother! I pray God gives you strength and protect you so you may reunite with her in His Kingdom. ☦☦☦
Beautifully done.
-Your Orthodox brother in Christ.
Wonderful, love this, your voices are awesome.
For only four people, this is by far my favorite recording I've found on youtube. Thank you!
Holy Music!
mine too, it is very beautiful
Matt, that is because the singers are praying, not just performing. Put another way, they are listening to each other: a unity.
I do love the kontakion, the Conductor and the voices that sang that for Prince Phillip sang it very beautiful. I listened to the singing and the words over and over. Peace.
Prince Philippe's mother was Orthodox. 🙏
Beautiful. Thank you for posting!
A life long friend passed this morning. This prayer is beautiful. Thank you.
Hopefully their orthodox or this won’t be sung
May their memory be eternal.
@@elcabo5367 That is not the case. An Orthodox Christian may request a Panakhida for a non Orthodox family member or loved one, at which this hymn is sung.
You did a wonderful job with this beautiful Orthodox hymn!
Astonishing rendition of one my favourite hymns. You guys are fantastically talented
Absolutely Perfect.
I have watched and listened to this over and over it is so incredibly beautiful, have these four people sung anything else? Love the man singing deep bass, beautiful voice
Truly a beautiful and transcendent piece and performance
Beauty will save the world; all beauty is a gift from God
Very Very Beautiful!
Simply wonderful - thank you!
It is luscious. Do not stop. I, too, am Orthodox.
I have to backtrack my comment. Thank you for doing an Orthodox chant better than most Orthodox churches in America.
First heard this in the movie Dr Zhivago so long ago, then heard it again at the Queen's funeral, I was totally blown away at how very beautiful this is. I thought it was in Russian but having several hearings I started to recognize the English. Don't care about any religious aspect I just love the beauty of the sound of it. love how the chubby guy and the girl smirk at each other over something the director does??
Prince Philip was raised Orthodox. He requested the hymn be sung at his funeral, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth also requested it be sung at her funeral.
@@tantahades6760 I believe Queen Victoria also requested it for her funeral in 1901, but the then Archbishop of Canterbury refused it because prayers for the dead were forbidden in the Church of England at that time. (the rule was relaxed in the First World War, I think).
Oh, I didn’t know that. Thank you.
I like this song very much!!
Listen to it I imagine it is my funeral and those young beautiful people singing it to my funeral !! I’m 68 year old do not get me wrong I want to live ad long God will allow me to live I’m not mad, but the prayer song is a reflection of my life and desire to be with Jesus our beloved Savior!!
God bless you all !!
well said, the goal of life is to reunite with the Triune God.
Absolutely beautiful at this time, at the passing of Queen Elizabeth x
You four sounds heavenly.
I am orthodox , Greek and heard in Dr Zhivago movie and often over yrs in memorials and sadly for my own mother and now here in Bulgaria. So powerful
Beautiful !
Krasne!
I can feel the breeze from angels wings when I hear this.
I just got chills about your comment. I never thought of this hymn in that way. Thank you
That’s just the devil drawing you to you eternal damnation
@@elcabo5367 Members of Christ's Body are not condemned.
damn u guys never listened to russian liturgy then
with men that have voices 1000times deeper and lower and powerful at the same time
Beautiful - thank you
I'm amazed at your ability to sing together. It seems like none of the singers are even looking at the director, and yet everyone is singing on que. You all must have practiced and practiced and practiced. Bravo!
The entire service is beautiful, not just this Kontakion of the departed.
Lovely singing. Thank you. So warm and rich.
beautiful. i loved the In Paradisum, This is much more beautiful and uplifting
Just Wow
Wow
Amazing!!
Outstanding! Well done
Beautiful. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful
We sing this for every Panachida, Neha, Trisagion, or what ever you might call it. The words are slightly different, and we add With The Spirits of the Righteous made perfect.
How beautiful.
It is sung within the service of the departed called Panikhida in Slavonic or Vigil in Greek. It is sung at every funeral. The words are in a comment below.
What a fantastic performance of Tchaikovsky’s wonderfully poignant Kontakion. Superb A Capella singing,; great voices, timing and clarity.
Well done everyone, inspirational, Blessings from Michael 🦋
This hymn far predates Tchaikovsky
@@CHURCHISAWESUM Hi Pegasi, thanks for letting me know. I’m only going on the music and credits attributing this to that composer.
Hopefully, we share the enjoyment of the music and this version presented,
Blessings, Michael 🦋
So beautiful 👏🏻👏🏻🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Big up Bryony.....what a bop 🎶🎶🎶
Omg how u find this
Also ty pal u r v sweet 🧁
@@tissuepaperseahorse Popped up on my fb 😝
💜💜💜
This sounds beautiful - any chance of you trying the Old Church Slavonic? Also listening to Choir of Clare College who sing this in OCS. I'm assuming this is in a rehearsal room, informally - this is plenty respectful enough to my ears and folk can always look away from the screen if they object to how you are all dressed.
What on earth has their attire to do with their beautiful singing? How critical is that!
@@jen9774 I think it's got nothing at all to do with it - the singing is all, but one of the commentators objects strongly - see comments below from Paul Ziolo
@@jen9774 this is a prayer, so it is understandable that one should dress modestly before God. Though the context is not in in Church. It’s still a prayer and it should not be shocking that we should respectful since God fills all creation
@@mariorizkallah5383 Should we then avoid praying after an accident because we are in immodest clothing, or intoxicated, or any other "sinful" state? Don't be ridiculous. Every orthodox choir rehearses in their regular clothing.
This is so beautiful
Otherwise said "Rejoice, we have no choice" (Neil Young)
Heard this at prince philips funeral service
Very apt as his mother was an Orthodox nun.
A beautiful rendition.
This is how I imagine the Lord's angels sound ♥️
What a wonder it would be to hear the angels that sing praises to God. I fear though that it would cause our human ears to rupture and bleed to hear such perfection.
@@broz1488 "And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.
And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs: and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins."
Soul of the Russian nation in the song. Beaty of the song is incomparable.
It's actually Ukrainian
Very beautiful.
It's ashame they have not dressed in appropriate attire to utter these sacred words.
Probably only a practice session. But yes, the final production in the complimentary clothing for the hymn would have been extra special.
Rehearsal!
It is not part of only russian orthodox liturgy. This chant, deriving from Ancient Kiev (Ukraine), using in different countries. Please, don't substitute the concepts.
I have ordered this for the departing hymn at my funeral. In spite of the fact that I hate Putin and what he has unleashed in Ukraine.
Oh once you delve into ancient christianity and learn it's alive and well in the orthodox church.... there is no going back.
Except to turn to the one true apostolic Church. The orthobros are divided along geographic and linguistic lines. The catholic church is universal.
But is it Russian?
Одеваитесь прилично.....
What no flip flops or Hawaiian shirts?!
Anglicans are an autocephalous church; almost orthodox. And Philip, the father of Charles III, was born Orthodox!
😠 Nobody is ‘born’ into anything other than the human species. Certainly not religion of any form.
Anglicans are not Orthodox
@@mariorizkallah5383
There is a long tail behind that. The Anglo-Saxon clergy took the side of Constantinople after 1054 and had to be removed, which happened after 1066 and the conquest.
About a century ago there was a move to bring the Anglican church into the Orthodox fold. There was a Society of St Alban and St Sergius set up to promote this. It floundered on the Modernism in the Anglican Church. The Anglican Ordinariate drew some traditional Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church, where they were not made welcome. Now that the Roman Catholic Church is also dominated by Modernism, there could eventually be the possibility of an Anglican Rite English Orthodox Church.
@@henrybn14ar That’s interesting, I didn’t know. As it is, in the US there is a Western rite in the Orthodox church, using the liturgy of St Gregory
This is nice but it sounds like an Anglican chant. You should have sung it in Russian because it was written for that language.
I'm curious about the look and laugh at 1:16 :'D
This chant is not Russian. It's very old Ukrainian heritage, Kyivan Rus. Please correct that. It is very important to Ukrainians. And to all who support them.
You do not own a prayer. This is For the Orthodox, Russians includes. Do not let the war separate you from your Russian Orthodox Brothers. The Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is under the Russian Patriarch. This is a very sad attitude to have. You need to let go of the war and reorient yourself to God and not let a war start gatekeeping prayers.. Lord have mercy
Ukraine has nothing to do with Kievan Rus (which is historical term, not the real name for the state) except for territory. First capital of Rus was Novgorod, do not forget that.
What do you mean this is not Russian? It's as Ukrainian as it is Russian or Belarusian. They all come from the same baptismal font with St. Vladimir of Kiev. Don't let the current invasion create false dichotomies
Holy Rus!
@@jairiske it is mith about baptismal. Cities of Ancient Rus were becoming Chistianity over the decades, in different times. In russian language there is difference between "russian" (российский) as "that, who is from russian federation" and "russian" (русский) like broader content, which changes through eras and reveals in several ways today. Politics from RusFed manipulate apply this concept uncertainly for justification of war against Ukraine. They say, that all that is "russian" (русский) in broad sense is russian (российский). It is substitution of senses. And English language, without having difference between "русский" and "российский", confirms this replacing of sense in occasions like with Kontakion. It is not joke or irrational emotional reaction by ukrainians to the war. This claim by ukrainians is justifiable.
You mean ukrainian?
Ukrainian heritage form the times of Kyivan Rus!
This kontakion has nothing to do with Russia. This is the chant of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
Kievian Rus was Russian and not Ukrainian Kiev - Pechersk Lavra is part of Russian church not new Ukrainian church always was always will be .
@@petertukavkin9940 Apparently, no one taught you the history of Ukraine... The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was founded in the middle of the 11th century under the Kyiv prince Yaroslav the Wise. After that, the Lavra, like all the Kyiv clergy, were part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for another 6 centuries. It is noteworthy that the Russian state was founded only 4.5 centuries after the foundation of the Lavra. Until the 16th century, the Lavra, like Kyiv itself, was part of the Lithuanian principality. Until the middle of the 17th century, Kyiv was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Until 1708, it was part of the Ukrainian Cossack state, which recognized the protectorate of Moscow only in the middle of the 17th century. Only at the end of the 17th century did the Lavra become subordinate to the Moscow Patriarch. In 1917, Kyiv became the capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and later the capital of the Ukrainian state. After several lost battles for Kyiv, he became part of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1991 Kyiv became the capital of the independent state of Ukraine.
@@dianadzhanoian521 This is a false debate, the Rous' was founded by the Varangians who came from Sweden from the north (Ladoga, Novgorod, Smolensk, Kiev), lineage from which Yaroslav the wise, the father of our Queen of France Ana Yaroslavna known as Anne of Kiev (1051-1060), and the city of Kiev had absolutely nothing Ukrainian in the modern sense of the term! When Rus' was destroyed by the Mongols from 1240, the epicenter of what remained of it migrated from Kiev, destroyed in 1240, to Moscow, between 1268 and 1318, including the Orthodox patriarchate! Denying this heritage is historical nonsense, the construction of modern Ukrainian identity, from the 17th century and the Treaty of Pereiaslav (1654) is another chapter, that of a people of peasant-warriors (Cossacks) who wanted escape from the Polish and then Russian yoke! But medieval and modern Russia is indeed the heir of the original Rous', even if it also seems necessary to modern Ukrainians to build their identity!
two different socks
Kiev pre dates Russia. Russia just assumed it to be its own. Its Kiev’n chant. Not muscovite chant Kiev-Ukraine. Muscovite-Russia
It is not Russian, it is Ukrainian.
Liar
It's not "Church Slavonic", it's Old Bulgarian!
Here we go again...=]
Coming out of an evil Putin nation, I salute you…thank you
Kievian Rus was Russian not Ukrainian. Ukraine means borderlands of Russia, never a nation until fall of USSR make believe country and make believe people .
Thank you for correcting 🇷🇺
No such thing as make-believe country. It’s a sovereign nation even if you don’t like it. No one has the right to overrun it
Kievrus was founded by the Novgorod Russians. After the Mongol invasion, the princes of Kievan Rus took refuge in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Vladimir Suztal and Novgorod and became the leaders of the country. Ivan the Terrible is also a member of the Rurik dynasty. Ukraine is a Khazarian-built country, not the successor to Kievan Rus.
@@zexden2874 Yep this is why the state seal of Ukraine is a Khazar symbol, that trident
The singing is indeed beautiful and inspiring, but the setting, dress code and physical postures of the singers are totally inappropriate in an Orthodox context.
Yes, these things DO matter.
I have to agree. Respect is all too easily overlooked and never inappropriate.
This is a recording, not a liturgy.
@@Bellg As I said - these things DO matter. The words and melodies do not belong to ‘this world’. Sacred music should be recorded IN A LITURGICAL CONTEXT, and NOT slouching about in jeans and sneakers….
@@paulziolo9241 That is merely your opinion
@@Bellg what do you mean by ‘merely’? I speak with the authority of one who knows the Mandate of God. Who are you to question this?
origins Kyiv RUS Ukraine not Russia!
Kievan Rus' is just a place name, and the Russians who founded Kyiv Rus' are Novgorod and Vladimir Suztar. Ukraine has nothing to do with Rus
At least someone wore pants