Byzantine chant - Αναστάσεως Ημέρα

Medieval Byzantine Paschal (Easter) chant.
Title: "Αναστάσεως Ημέρα" (Day of the Resurrection )
Service: Divine Liturgy of Pascha (Easter Mass)
Performers: Greek Byzantine Choir

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• Medieval
• Byzantine
• Chant
• Greek
• Choir
• Religious
• Easter
• Pascha
• Orthodox
• Lycourgos
• Angelopoulos
• Christian
• Eastern

[DARKSHATOW]

I've never heard of this type of chant, just gregorian

[Callixtinus]

@DARKSHATOW :

To put it simply:

- Gregorian chant is the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churches following the Roman Rite.

- Byzantine chant is the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churches following the Constantinopolitan Rite.

[Rafostro]

Lycourgos Angelopoulos isn't it ?

[Callixtinus]

Yes

[IlStudioso]

Byzantine chanters always seem to have deeper voices than Old Roman chanters. Or maybe it's just that here they speak Greek (thus making it Byzantine), while in the West, they spoke Latin (making it Old Roman). Really makes the Byzantine chanting unmistakable. But Old Roman seriously does sound almost the same, I wish Holy Mother Church could reinstitute Old Roman Chant for the holiest basilicas.

[Charby10]

So mystical beauty of the byzantine chant

[littlerudegirrrrl]

@acerb45666555 not neccesarily i do want to explore Wicca but my current beliefs involve the Norse and Greek gods

[acerb45666555]

@littlerudegirrrrl ..........a Wiccan??! .

[vampirehunteramanda]

As a Roman Catholic and an aspiring history teacher, I adore the Byzantine variant of polyphonic chant as well as the pre-Gregorian form....it is so much closer to the Byzantine style that it's quite haunting. I completely agree with you, littlerudegirrrrl. As someone who is perfectly comfortable attending Mass in Western or Eastern Rite churches as well as Orthodox, I see the sanctity in both and wish everyone could focus on the points we SHARE, not the points that divide us.

[littlerudegirrrrl]

Growing up Greek Orthodox, I wonder. Why must you guys always talk about how other churches changed so much? Yeah, maybe the west didn't want to be like the guys in the east. So what? everyone goes through life questioning whatever's being thrown at them, so they ended up splitting and having their own points of view about faith. So what? i know I been through that! Now I'm a "heathen"

[VelkyInkvizitor]

The byz. chant is unmistakable not because of deeper voices, but because of special intervals (used very precisely by L. Angelopouos and his choir). Simply, compared with the latin singing, in the gammut C D E F G a h c ... the tones E and h are lower (intervals DE, ah are a 3/4+ tone, not a whole tone).

[danielklistos]

you are singing in this choir?

[kokoskrikkos]

A major difference is that this music is still in use in the Eastern (Orthodox) Church and thus it is part the act of worship, whereas Old Roman Chant unfortunately has passed into a state of a "museum exhibit".

[MariaVesper]

This is so beautiful! With such passion

[pavloskouris]

Hellenic Byzantine Choir directed by Lykourgos Aggelopoulos.

One of the 2-3 best choirs in the Christianity.

[coronuevajerusalen]

music para el maestro de maestros