Byzantine, Arabo-Christian, Venetian and Renaissance Sacred Music
Venice
Basilica di San Marco – Thursday 4 October 2001, 20:30
PROGRAM
En Chordais
Master: Eleftherios Georgiades
Pieces of the Byzantine liturgical tradition
Phos ilaron [Ancient hymn of Vespers]
Anothen i prophete [Maistor Ioannes Koukouzelis]
Jefsasthe ke idete [Ioannes Kladas]
I tis Chaldeas kaminou [Zachariah Knahnendeh]
Doksa si to diksanti to phos [Chourmouzios Chartophylakas]
Se hymnoumen … Aksion estin… [Michalaki Chatziathanasiou]
Ti ypermacho [Prelude to the Kontakion of the Akathist Hymn]
Ghada Shbeir (solist)
A selection of hymns from the Arab-Christian tradition
Syriac liturgical chants
Ya Ummalah [Traditional Maronite chant]
Al Yaoum O’Illika [Traditional Byzantine liturgical chant]
Ya Mariamou Lbikrou [Traditional Maronite chant of 1800]
Wa Habibi [based on an old Italian melody]
Cappella Marciana
Dir.: Marco Gemmani
Liturgical pieces from the Medieval Venetian tradition
& two motets by Adrian Willaert
Office of the Second Vespers of St. Theodore
O magnum misterium [Adrian Willaert]
Ave Maria [Adrian Willaert]
PolyPhonia
Dir:: Nikolaos Kotrokois
Musical composition by the Cretan composer
Franghiskos Leontaritis (1518-1572)
Missa super “Aller mi faut”
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus-Osanna-Benedictus-Osanna
Agnus Dei
Christina Giannakopoulou, Sophia Lekatsa, Panthea Nourgostar, Evi Papageorgiou, sopranos
Theodora Achourioti, Smaro Griva, altos
George Kyriazes, Loukas Panourgias, Aristides Prospathopoulos, tenors
George Kanaris, Konstantinos Mavrogenis, basses
