Let My Prayer Arise brings together three previously released CDs of music written for the liturgy of Orthodox Church, performed by Paul Hillier leading his Theatre of Voices and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Fragments, a collection of mostly brief solo and polyphonic settings of sacred texts, stretches the definition of "Orthodox ...
The Powers of Heaven is the second recording Paul Hillier has made with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and it covers a sampling of Eastern Orthodox sacred literature dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These were the first centuries in which coherent literature was produced for Russian Orthodox choirs singing in Old ...
Western Civilization reached Russia later than the rest of Europe. For example, the Renaissance hit Russia hundreds of years after it hit Italy, and along with perspective and humanism, contrapuntal sacred music didn't hit Russia until long after it was established in Western Europe. Almost 200 years after Monteverdi wrote his last madrigal, ...
The Powers of Heaven is the second recording Paul Hillier made with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and it covers a sampling of Eastern Orthodox sacred literature dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These were the first centuries in which coherent literature was produced for Russian Orthodox choirs singing in Old Church ...
Orthodox Chant in Harmonia Mundi's HM Gold series is a reissue of a disc released in 2003 under the title The Powers of Heaven. It was the second recording Paul Hillier made during his tenure with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and it covers a sampling of Eastern Orthodox sacred literature dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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