Archive for the 'Music' Category



Russian ecclesiastical chants of the medieval period

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Professor Anatoli Viktorovich Konotop is a musicologist and has been working for 35 years on deciphering and transcribing ancient Russian ecclesiastical chants as they were sung in monasteries in the 16-17th centuries, before the liturgical reforms of the 18th century. These monophonic chants, ... More

Chants of the Church of Rome, Byzantine period

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Chants of the Church of Rome, Byzantine period. A chant (in Greek) of the Church of Rome during the Byzantine period. Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès. ... More

More Old Roman chants in Latin

Friday, July 9th, 2010

The first is a powerful invocation to God titled “Alleluia,” while the second is a chant composed during the period of the Greek popes in Rome (ca. 7th century), and therefore is directly influenced by Eastern models. —- Other chants can be found at this page. ... More

Byzantine and post-Byzantine music series

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Series of very well-made videos showing aspects of Byzantine history through manuscript illustrations, with Byzantine folk music as background. ... More

The Passion According to Matthew

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

It is almost by chance that I came across this composition for orchestra and choir of which I had quite astonishingly never heard before. It is a work that is worth listening to, and which, in my opinion, surpasses even Bach’s work of the same title. It is surprising in its Baroque tones, ... More