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Millennium of Music
Music List #04-15, 16, 17
THE PASSION OF CHRIST
With the current interest in the story of Christ's Passion
rekindled by the recent popular film, we examined over three weeks how the story was told during the first twelve centuries of Christianity.
Part I: The Passion in the Ancient Western Church
--Attende Domine--Innocent taken captive, led away unresisting, condemned for sinners by false witnesses: Do Thou, O Christ, save those whom Thou hast redeemed.
[White Fathers of St. Irmenin, Trier; rec. c. 1929]. Parnassus PACD 95015/6.
--Christus factus est; Tenebrae [Choir of the Abbey of S. Pierre de Solesmes/Dom Joseph Gajard, dir.; rec. 1930].Pearl GEMM CDS 9152.
--Lamentation from the Good Friday Matins [Choir of the Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan/Chanoine Jeanneteau, dir.].BMG/Jade CD 7432157681-2.
--Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae: Ego vir videns [Mozarabaic (Visigothan) Rite—Choir of the Abbey Santo Domingo de Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta; rec. 1969]. Deutsche Grammophon CD 445.339-2.
--Service for the Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday [Schola Cantorum Riga/Guntars Pranis, dir.]. Centaur CRC 2542.
--Evangelium Passionis et Mortis Domini [The Passion According to St. John--Nova Schola Gregoriana/Alberto turco, dir.]. Naxos CD 8.550952.
Part II: The Passion in the Ancient Eastern Church
--Ymni Megalis Pemptis & Megalis Paraskevis (The Crucifixion, the yielding up of the Spirit, the descent from the Cross). [Byzantine Choir of the All Saints Cathedral, Athens/Costa Zorbas, dir.]. Zorba CD CZ 4.
--Antiphons for Good Friday [Ted Alevizos]. Gnision CD TA6518.
--April Stichera from the Monastery of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Mt. Sinai [Orthodox
Ensemble/Vivian Klochkov, dir.]. Jade CD JAD C 060.
--Inna Yousof [Graeco-Arabic--Descent from the Cross].
--Alyawma-'Ulliga [Arabic--This day is hanged from the gallows-tree He who suspended the earth over the waters--Sr. Marie Keyrouz/Choir of the Church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre].
Harmonia Mundi CD HMC 901315.
--Bakka Abraham; Tisbohto-I-moryo; Yawmou-sh-sharr/Rabbi-Imadhbouh [Maronite—Upon the Cross the Son of God gave up the ghost--Sr. Marie Keyrouz/L'Ensemble de la paix].
Harmonia Mundi CD HMC 901350.
--The Passion of Christ [early Russian monodic chant--Men's Choir "Drevnerousski Rospev"/Anatoly Grindenko, dir.].Le Chant du Monde CD RUS 288 093.
--Exaposteilarion of Great Friday at the Matins of the Twelve Apostles.
--Stichera from the Apostikha of Great Friday at Vespers [Russian Patriarchate Choir/Anatoly Grindenko, dir.].Opus 111 CD OPS 30-240.
Part III: The Passion in the Early Mediaeval Church
--Elevation of the Cross (Latin and Greek).
--Improperia: Popule meus (The "Reproaches" of Jesus) [Schola Hungarica/Janka Szendrei & Laszlo Dobsay, directors].
Hungaroton CD HCD 32014.
--Planctus Beatae Mariae Virginis (Lament of the Virgin Mary). [Irena Troupova-Wilke, s./ Schola Gregoriana/David Eben, dir.].
Supraphon CD 11 1562-2.
--Stabat Mater dolorosa [Choir of the Benedictine Nuns of the
Abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan/Chanoine Jeanneteau, dir.].
BMG/Jade CD 7432157681-2.
--Stabat Mater dolorosa (Corsican tradition) [A Cumpagnia Ensemble]. K.617 CD 107/2.
--Sticharion from Good Friday at Vespers (Slavonic Liturgy) [Choir of the Benedictine Abbey de l'Union, Chevetogne/Dom Gregoire Bainbridge; rec. 1965]
Harmonia Mundi CD HMA 190567.
--Crucifixio Ihesu Christi Domini Nostri Mysterium Crucis; Mors Ihesu Christi Domini (Cividale Manuscript). [Clemencic Consort/Rene Clemencic]
Nuovo Era CD 7054.
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