Orthodox Music and Chant

[Lawrence87]

 

[Iacobus]

 

[Diadem]

This is fun. New music video from Orthodox YouTuber and rapper Young Penitent:

 

[Cornelius V.E.]

Epiphany at the newly built (and still being constructed) Manastirea Nera in western Romania:

 

[Cornelius V.E.]

"Our Father" prayed during Holy Liturgy. Zarzma Monastery, Georgia:

 

[Cornelius V.E.]

Good Friday at St. Elizabeth Convent in Minsk, Belarus:

 

[Cornelius V.E.]

Pascha in Tbilisi: "Aghdgomasa shensa" ("to Your Resurrection")


აღდგომასა შენსა, ქრისტე მაცხოვარ
ანგელოსნი უგალობენ ცათა შინა!
და ჩვენცა ღირს მყვენ ქვეყანასა ზედა
წმინდით გულით დიდებად შენდა!
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Aghdgomasa shensa kriste matskhovar
angelozni ugaloben tsata shina
da chventsa ghirs mkven kveqanasa zeda
tsmindit gulita didebad shenda!
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Your Resurrection, O Christ our Savior,
the Angels in heaven sing!
Enable us who are on earth
to Glorify You with a pure heart!

 

[Cornelius V.E.]

Pascha at the Zica women's monastery in Serbia:

 

[Let God Arise]

 

[Острог]

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[δούλος του Χριστού]

 

[Rodion]

It took me ages to find this version of Only Begotten Son.

Every time I hear it in Church I find it so utterly beautiful, been listening to this on repeat

I can understand traditionalist objections to the “operafication” of Russian Orthodox music, as it really is spine-chillingly, achingly beautiful at times and as such it could be a distraction from prayer. But personally I find the beauty of it orients me to think of God.

I prefer it to Byzantine chant, and that’s my controversial non-theological orthodox take

 

[Let God Arise]

When I lived in St. Petersburg that Naval church (above) on Kronstadt Island was still just a shell and had not been rebuilt after the Communist period. Neither was the big church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood (below). My dream is to go back and visit them and attend liturgy in them.

 

[Let God Arise]