Cappella Romana, John Michael Boyer, 45th Parallel Universe - Heaven and Earth (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Ikon of Light: No. 1, Phós I
02. Ikon of Light: No. 2, Dóxa
03. Ikon of Light: No. 3, Triságion I
04. Ikon of Light: No. 4, Mystic Prayer to the Holy Spirit
05. Ikon of Light: No. 5, Triságion II
06. Ikon of Light: No. 6, Phós II
07. Ikon of Light: No. 7, Epiphánia

CD2
01. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 1, Come, Let Us Worship
02. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 2, Stretching Out the Heavens
03. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 3, The Deep, Like a Cloak
04. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 4, He Waters the Mountains
05. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 5, He Made the Moon
06. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 6, There Is the Sea
07. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 7, May the Glory of the Lord Endure to the Ages
08. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 8, Glory to the Father… Both Now…
09. Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation: No. 9, Alleluia… Glory to You…



Discover here a performance unlike any other of John Tavener’s Ikon of Light, his landmark setting of the Prayer to the Holy Spirit by the great medieval mystic St. Symeon the New Theologian. Scored for choir and string trio, it is a radiant meditation on the Uncreated Light.

Six Orthodox composers collaborated to create Heaven and Earth, a Song of Creation, written for Cappella Romana and its unique musical capacities. Each section of this ecstatic setting in English of the Psalm of the Cosmos (103 lxx) seamlessly unites into a transcendent work Byzantine chant, lush Slavic harmonies, Renaissance counterpoint, Georgian-inspired polyphony, and more.

Vocal ensemble Cappella Romana combines passion with scholarship in its exploration of early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West. Its name refers to the medieval Greek concept of the Roman "oikoumene" (inhabited world), which embraced Rome and Western Europe as well as the Byzantine Empire of Constantinople (“New Rome”) and its Slavic commonwealth. "Heaven and Earth" is Cappella Romana’s 27th release.

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