Includes selections from Vespers and Matins, as well as Troparia and Kontakia for various feast days.

This collection of Byzantine hymnography in English may come as a revelation to Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. To the former, that the traditional tones and hymns can be rendered in the English language without a diminution of form and essence, and to the latter, that this tradition of sacred music need not be inaccessible to western listeners.

Playing Time: 56 minutes, 55 seconds

Track Listing

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1. Blessed is The Man
2. O Lord, I Have Cried
3. Rich Men Have Turned Poor
4. God Is The Lord
5. Resurrectional Troparion
6. Resurrectional Theotokion
7. The Magnificat
8. The Praises
9. Troparion of St. Thekla
10. Troparion of the Nativity
11. Today the Virgin
12. Troaprion of Theophany
13. As Many As Have Been Baptized
14. Awed By The Beauty
15. To Thee, The Champion
16. The Stichera of Pascha
17. Doxasticon of Pascha
18. Troparion of Pascha
19. Kontakion of Pascha
20. Who Is So Great a God
21. First Sticheron of the American Saints
22. Troparion of All Saints of America
23. O Protection of Christians
24. In Giving Birth
25. O Virgin Pure