Metropolitan Museum of Art: Music of Byzantium

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Music of Byzantium

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Music of Byzantium
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Composer: Byzantine Chant
Composer: Romanos the Melodist
Composer: Xenos Koronis
Composer: St. John Koukouzelis
Composer: Byzas
Composer: Various Composers
Composer: John Plousiadenos
Composer: Manuel Chrysaphes
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Composer: Hieronymos Tragodistes of Cyprus
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Music Label: Cappella Romana
Soundtracks:
  1. Kontakion ("To You My Champion")
  2. Imperial Acclamations For Constantine XI Palaiologos (1449-1453)
  3. Kontakion For Theophany
  4. Festal Trisagion (As Many Of You As Have Been Baptized)
  5. Anagrammatismos for Theophany
  6. Sticheron Apostichon Idiomelon For St. Basil
  7. Kalophonic Coda For St. Basil/A New Addition
  8. Kyrie Cunctipotens Genitor
  9. Kanon In Honor Of St. Thomas Aquinas: Ode 1
  10. Communion For Mid-Pentecost
  11. Lament For The Fall Of Constantinople
  12. Lamentation Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae
  13. O Great And Most Sacred Pascha

Music reviews of Metropolitan Museum of Art: Music of Byzantium

Music Review: A Triad of Beauty
Rating: 5 Stars

This is the second in a series of 3 related reviews: THE GLORY OF BYZANTIUM, MUSIC OF BYZANTIUM, and THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE. I see that these same CD's are being offered as a special triad set. I gave THE GLORY OF BYZANTIUM a "rave" review.

MUSIC OF BYZANTIUM gets another one.

This CD is produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art & performed by Cappella Romano. The music is somewhat more austere than GLORY OF BYZANTIUM, but certainly no less beautiful. It is a sampler of Byzantine music from 1261 to 1557.

#1 Kantakion ("To you, my champion") is a remakable song, its text indicating possible allusions to various theological sources: "To you my Champion and Commander/I your city saved from disasters dedicate/O Mother of God, hymns of victory and thanksgiving/but as you have unassailable might from every kind of danger/ now deliver me, that I may cry to you/ Hail Bride without bridegroom."

The opening salutation could be seen as representing remnants of the Mithra Military Cult that at one time was the main competitor to Early Christianity. The invocation to "Mother of God" emphasizes the close, almost Pagan veneration of the Feminine Principle in the Eastern and Orthodox Christian traditions. The phrase "Hail Bride without bridegroom" is intriguing. Not only does it again accent the concept of Female Divinity, but also suggests a possible Gnostic coloration, with its central image of The Sacred Marriage.

Another aspect of the CD that is really lovely is its very subtle "wall of vocal background sound." You can almost miss it, it is that delicate. To me it sounds like an almost Byzantine form of Tibetan chant. Cappella Romano is obviously a superlative vocal group.

This second CD in the triad is definitely as worthy as the first.

Well, 2 down & 1 to go!
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