Let My Prayer Arise brings together three previously released CDs of music written for the liturgy of Orthodox Church, performed by Paul Hillier leading his Theatre of Voices and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Fragments, a collection of mostly brief solo and polyphonic settings of sacred texts, stretches the definition of "Orthodox Church" in the variety of its selection, which includes music from Italy, Greece, Russia, England, and France. England had developed its own rites independently of Rome, and so in its ...
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Let My Prayer Arise brings together three previously released CDs of music written for the liturgy of Orthodox Church, performed by Paul Hillier leading his Theatre of Voices and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Fragments, a collection of mostly brief solo and polyphonic settings of sacred texts, stretches the definition of "Orthodox Church" in the variety of its selection, which includes music from Italy, Greece, Russia, England, and France. England had developed its own rites independently of Rome, and so in its disconnect with Rome it could be seen to have some tenuous connection with Orthodoxy, but the inclusion of France and Italy is harder to rationalize. Regardless of questions of category, this CD is a remarkable testament to the vitality and diversity of traditions of liturgical music in Western and Eastern Europe. Perhaps because it is the farthest from the more familiar "western tradition," the music from the Russian and Greek churches is the most revelatory, primal and harmonically...
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