O Gladsome Light (CD)

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The Krysostomos Chamber Choir: O Gladsome Light (Rauhaisa Valkeus)

Conductor: Mikko Sidoroff

Qvartet: Pia Perola, Heidi Kara, Ilmari Pirttilä, Deni Juris

This Evening Hymn is a prayer dating from the second or third century. It is sung at Vespers as the last of the sun's rays sink below the horizon. The Gladsome Light here refers to Christ, who is seen as a redeeming light that will shine in the darkness of this world. 0 Gladsome Light is a fitting title for this second disc by the Krysostomos Chamber Choi, for it includes the views of three of the disc's five composers on this sacred text in praise of the Light.

The disc is a prayer in song combining ancient melodies with a new idiom and marks the highest pinnacle in the almost 10 years since the choir was founded.

Content

Virpi Leppänen (b. 1943)

1. Praise ye the name of the Lord (znamennyi melody) / Kiittäkää Herran nimeä (znamenni-sävelmä)
2. O Gladsome Light (old melody from Valaam) / Ehtoohymni (valamolainen sävelmä)
3. Have mercy on us Lord, have mercy on us (old melody from Valaam) / Armanda meitä, Herra, armanda meitä (valamolainen sävelmä)

Mikko Sidoroff (b. 1985)

Valamo Suite: based on hymns from Valaam
4. O taste and see / Maistakaa ja katsokaa
5. Blessed is the man / Autuas se mies
6. O Gladsome Light / Ehtooveisu

Hieromonk (later Archbishop) Paavali (Paul) (1914-1988)

7. Silver gleam the wide lake waters (lyrics Igumen Chariton)(arc. Virpi Leppänen) / Taas hopealle välkkyy vedet aavat (san. Igumeni Hariton)<br

Ville Matvejeff (b. 1986)

8. The Wanderer's Song / Vaeltajan laulu

Virpi Leppänen

9. O taste and see (old melody from Valaam) / Maistakaa ja katsokaa (valamolainen sävelmä)
10. Resurrectional troparion I (znamennyi melody) / Ylösnousemustropari I (znamenni-sävelmä)
11. Resurrectional troparion II (znamennyi melody) / Ylösnousemustropari II (znamenni-sävelmä)

Johann von Gardner (1898-1984)

12. Let all mortal flesh keep silence / Vaietkoon jokainen ihmisolento
13. O Gladsome Light (Kievan chant) / Ehtoohymni (kiovalainen sävelmä)
14. Blessed is the man whom Thou choosest (old melody) / Autuas se, jonka sinä valitset (vanha sävelmä)