The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom - Choir of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Another cool find from the Shelton Goodwill!
Directed by Professor Boris Ledkovsky
Priests: Rev. Nicholas Solak, Rev. Vladimir Soroka
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition the Divine Liturgy is described as "the sacrament of sacraments." It is the center, the very heart of the whole life of the Church, her entrance into the joy and peace of the Kingdom, her partaking of the paschal banquet. The ritual; the prayers and the music constitute one indivisible whole and express the ascension of the Church to the heavenly sanctuary where Christ eternally offers to the Father His deified Humanity and eternally accepts us into His Eucharist.
St. Vladimir's Seminary Choir is known throughout the Orthodox world not only for its prayerful rendition of Orthodox Church music but as one of the few a capella choirs which has aroused interest in the ancient liturgical music of the Russian Orthodox Church. For the past five years, annual concerts of liturgical music have been presented to capacity audiences in New York City. In 1962 and 1963, in addition to the twenty to thirty Lenten visits to Orthodox parishes, 8 members of this choir toured the United States singing responses to Divine Services in more than 150 Orthodox Churches.
The selections on this recording are, for the most part, taken from the various monastic chants which have been used throughout generations by the Russian Orthodox Church. All of the numbers, with the exception of "A Mercy of Peace" and "The Lord's Prayer," have been harmonized by Professor Boris Ledkovsky. The English adaptations and arrangements were done by David Drillock and Michael Pilat.
Thank you very much. My daughter-in-law has to say farewell to her dear mother this week.Hope the music and words may comfort her.
Thanks for posting this, what a wonderful find. As someone who sings in the Liturgy it's always wonderful to hear the beauty of the words that go to the Glory of God.
An absolute historic gem. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for your uploading . I am happy to listen to beautiful voices anytime .
I'm an orthodox christian in Japan and know of a lot of Fathers who have graduated from St.Vladimir's Seminary .
Superb! Thank you so much for sharing! God bless you always! 💐
at 32:04, Love the Otche Nach by Nikolay Kedrov but in English. Lovely version that keeps bringing me back... TY for loading this.
I don’t think my grandfather deserves too much credit for putting to paper the “Moscow” harmonization of the 3rd Antiphon. Pretty standard arrangement. 😊 He can be given credit for the nuanced execution, though, and ensuring that there is a good bass sound at the foundation, something increasingly rare in the OCA today.
Who is your grandfather?
@@andrewkarlgut1488 the conductor on this recording.
He was a legend! I’ve been trying to find other recordings that he conducted with little success. I found one other but it isn’t for sale anymore. I’ve been digitizing recordings from st tikhons and st vlads to preserve them seeing as they are extremely rare these days. Do you have any recordings that he directed that I could potentially digitize? If so I’d be willing to pay!
@@andrewkarlgut1488 have you posted these digitized recordings anywhere? I would greatly enjoy hearing them!
Do you know what year this recording was issued? Hard to see …
Hi, so glad you found this recording! Unfortunately there is no release or recording date on the album cover - it does say "For the past five years, annual concerts of liturgical music have been presented to capacity audiences in New York City. In 1962 and 1963......" and goes on. So possibly 1967-1968 would be my guess?
Do you know if the other albums can be found on youtube?
@@MichaelaNatalAnd who does the Prokimenon?
I found one other video of a full album titled simply, "St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary". It also looks like they have a UA-cam channel - if you search "St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary" it will come up!
This I do not know for sure, as on the album it says "Prokimenon - Tone 1 (Znamenny Chant) with no individual singer attributed.