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What you’re listening to:

“O My Most Blessed Queen” from the newly-released album “Behold Your God” by St. Seraphim Choir, Santa Rosa, CA. This piece is often done as a paraliturgical hymn after an evening service.

Our New Releases

Hot off the Press! Cherubika Music Book

A collection of sheet music to match all 11 selections on the “Cherubika” CD, containing 8 settings of the Cherubik Hymn, and 1 each of “Now the Powers,” “Let All Mortal Flesh,” and “Of Thy Mystical Supper.” Please see CD page for more details. Spiral bound, printed on heavy non-bleed-through bright white paper and professionally typeset. Clear plastic cover, composite backing. Also includes liner notes for each piece tracing the history of the melody. $14.95.

“Mysteries of Silence”

This is a beautiful collection of poems reflecting a mature faith and deep vision of the Presence of God filling all of life. –Abbot Jonah Paffhausen, Monastery of St. John of San Francisco, Manton, CA.

Christopher Lewis is a gifted poet whose work I’ve followed for thirty years. His writing is beautiful and mellifluous, reflecting his Orthodox Christian faith and a love of truth and beauty. but above all, Christopher has always been a poet of wonder. He brings the reader into the inner spiritual world which we all so desperately need to be in touch with. — Mother Macaria, St. Xenia Methochion, Indianapolis, IN.

Christopher Lewis has a grasp of natural rhythm and the sonority of language that is missing from much contemporary poetry. In lush language he ushers the reader into the mysteries of the spirit through the doors of the senses. –Katherine Hyde, novelist, founding editor of The Handmaiden.

Cherubika

Liturgical Chant CD: The Cherubic Hymn in Eastern Orthodox Chant

This first recording by Cherubika (released in December) contains the Cherubic Hymn sung in a cross section of chant forms and is arguably the most beautiful sacred music recording released in 2007. —Liturgica.com

REVIEW: The new “Cherubika” Ensemble has produced a CD with a very interesting concept — eleven settings of various Cherubic Hymns — the usual text from the Divine Liturgy, as well as the three other texts that function as Cherubika: “Now the Powers of Heaven,” from the Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts, “Of Thy Mystical Supper,” from the Liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday, and “Let All Mortal Flesh,” from the Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday. All the settings are in English, drawn from a variety of chant sources — Russian Znamenny, Georgian, Serbian, and Romanian, and represent arrangements and adaptations made by various Orthodox composers working in America today in the sphere of chant, chief among them, Fr. Lawrence Margitich, the principal conductor of the ensemble. The 15-voice group is comprised of select voices, who sing with good ensemble and blend — a welcome development in the sphere of American Orthodox recordings. Coupled with an introductory essay by Orthodox musicologist Dimitri Conomos, this CD offers not only a highly enjoyable and reverent listening experience but also an excellent teaching tool, demonstrating what fine liturgical singing, drawn upon the well-spring of the Orthodox chant heritage, can and should be. –Vlad Morosan, Musica Russica

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