On Epiphany: Medieval Byzantine Chant, Portland, OR-based choir Cappella Romana is joined by Greek scholar Ioannis Arvanitis in a performance of Greek Byzantine music dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Music from two services are heard, the first being the Feast of St. Basil (January 1) and the second for Epiphany (January 6). Music director Alexander Lingas plots out these two programs in a way that provides easy accessibility to the music; unison singing alternates with antiphonal passages for the ...
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On Epiphany: Medieval Byzantine Chant, Portland, OR-based choir Cappella Romana is joined by Greek scholar Ioannis Arvanitis in a performance of Greek Byzantine music dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Music from two services are heard, the first being the Feast of St. Basil (January 1) and the second for Epiphany (January 6). Music director Alexander Lingas plots out these two programs in a way that provides easy accessibility to the music; unison singing alternates with antiphonal passages for the soloist and chorus, and drones are added when needed. The recording, made in St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland, is spacious, yet clear, and one can presume every word is coherent, if only one knew how to speak Greek.Epiphany: Medieval Byzantine Chant contains some very interesting repertoire. At one point during John Kladas the Lampadarios' Dynamis, the composer elongates the word "power" into phonemic, nonsense syllables known as "teretisms." The concluding piece, Anagrammatismos by...
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