Three Holies Church Choristers The Hymns of the Ancient Church Total time: 49:48 Release date: 12/14/03 Location of artist: Kiev, Ukraine

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Gorgeously solemn and reverent, Hymns of the Ancient Church, features a number of very rare ancient chants representing the three main canonical singing traditions of the Eastern Church: Byzantine, Georgia and Old Rus. These ancient, holy songs served as the foundation not only of later religious singing, but also classical choral music. All the chants are performed by choristers of the Three Holies Church, conducted by Igor Sakhno—one of the great experts in this form. Sakho studies the secrets of Georgian and Byzantine singing at length in several different monasteries, and during his stay in Greece, was mentored closely by the well-known Greek protopsalt L. Angelopoulos.

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-Take ye the Body of Christ (Bulgarian chant) (6:27) [hifi lofi] 02-Come let us worship (Georgian chant) (1:04) [hifi lofi] 03-O Theotokos and Vergin Rejoice (Ave Maria) (3:47) [hifi lofi] 04-Meet it is (tune: Hymn Demetre) (3:19) [hifi lofi] 05-Cherubic Hymn (Byzantine chant Bulgarian tradition) (6:44) [hifi lofi] 06-Troparion on the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God (Stolpovoy chant) (6:44) [hifi lofi] 07-Who is the Great Lord - a) Byzantine tradition b)Bulgarian tradition c) Russian tradition (4:57) [hifi lofi] 08-Christmas Troparion (5:15) [hifi lofi] 09-Christmas Svetilen (2:20) [hifi lofi] 10-Alleluia (Georgian chant) (1:23) [hifi lofi] 11-To Thee O Theotokos (Byzantine chant) (1:48) [hifi lofi] 12-Sunday Eucharist Chant (Stolpovoy chant) (2:20) [hifi lofi] 13-Sunday Eucharist Chant ( Byzantine chant) (3:40)