Holy Friday-Service of the Holy Passion

Holy Friday-Service of the Holy Passion

Artist: Choir of Vatopedi Fathers
Item number: AB119
Category: Byzantine
Chant Type: Byzantine
Language: Greek
Label: IMMB
Period: Contemporary
Length: null
Release date: 2010
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1. CD1-Tr1: My spirit seek thee early, Alleluia

2. CD1-Tr2: The Glorious Disciples

3. CD1-Tr3 1st Antiphon

4. CD1-Tr4: 2nd Antiphon

5. CD1-Tr5: 3rd Antiphon with the Kathisma

6. CD1-Tr6: 4th Antiphon

7. CD1-Tr7: 5th Antiphon

8. CD1-Tr8: 6th Antiphon with the Kathisma

9. CD1-Tr9: 7th Antiphon

10. CD1-Tr10: 8th Antiphon

11. CD1-Tr11: 9th Antiphon with the Kathisma

12. CD1-Tr12: 10th Antiphon

13. CD1-Tr13: 11th Antiphon

14. CD1-Tr14: 12th Antiphon with the Kathisma

15. CD1-Tr15: 13th Antiphon

16. CD1-Tr16: 14th Antiphon

17. CD1-Tr17: 15th Antiphon with the Kathisma

18. CD1-Tr18: The Beatitudes

19. CD2-Tr1: Prokeimenon

20. CD2-Tr2: 5th Canticle of the Canon with the Katavasia

21. CD2-Tr3: The Kontakion, Oikos and Synaxarion

22. CD2-Tr4: The 8th Canticle of the Canon with the Katavasia

23. CD2-Tr5: 9th Canticle of the Canon with the Katavasia

24. CD2-Tr6: O Lord, this very day

25. CD2-Tr7: Let everything that has breat, Praise the Lord

26. CD2-Tr8: Israel, My first-born Son....Seeing Thee crucified

27. CD2-Tr9: They stripped Me of My garments

28. CD2-Tr10I gave My back to scourging

29. CD2-Tr11: The whole creation was changed by fear

30. CD2-Tr12: Why does the impious...See Thee hanging on the Cross

31. CD2-Tr13: Lord, when Thou hast ascended on the Cross

32. CD2-Tr14: Already the unjust judges

33. CD2-Tr15: Thou hast redeemed us

34. CD2-Tr16: The earth shuddered


The third in a series of recording for each day of Holy Week, produced in collaboration with Crete University Press. The Holy Friday recording on 2 CDs, centers on the Passion of Christ, centering on the Today is suspended upon the tree..." and is accompanied by a full color liner notes booklet over 100 pages, in Greek and English, containing the full hymn text and Byzantine notation. Another volume in a wonderful reference set of Holy Week chant.

By: Benjamin Williams

As with all Vatopedi recordings, the quality and clarity of the recording is superb. This recording offers the traditional hymns of Holy Friday, and both a contemporary and ancient setting of Behold the Bridegroom Cometh. The Musical School of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi is one of the cradles of Byzantine music. It has endowed the monastery with a history of cantors, a rich library of books and manuscripts, a collection of recordings, and a rich tradition of chant which is continued by the contemporary choir of Vatopedi fathers. This recording of the Holy Friday Service, sung in the traditional Athonite fashion and recorded live in the monastery is another monument.