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. A chant (in Greek) of the Church of Rome during the Byzantine period. Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès. ... More
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
Series of very well-made videos showing aspects of Byzantine history through manuscript illustrations, with Byzantine folk music as background. ... More
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
