The Saint Tikhon Choir – Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Saint Tikhon Choir – Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:36 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana

While many musical choices are dictated by liturgical necessity, overall, this album is an addition of rare grace and refinement to the living music heritage of the Eastern rites. It will delight the Orthodox and the discerning non-Orthodox music-lover equally, and, perhaps, in its own way, contribute to greater understanding in a fragmented and disjointed world.

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The Saint Tikhon Choir & Benedict Sheehan – Benedict Sheehan: Vespers (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Saint Tikhon Choir & Benedict Sheehan – Benedict Sheehan: Vespers (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:27 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana

GRAMMY®-nominated conductor and composer Benedict Sheehan leads The Saint Tikhon Choir in his new setting of Eastern Orthodox Vespers in English. Inspired by the great All-Night Vigil setting by Rachmaninoff, Sheehan’s composition expands the genre with full settings of Psalms. Each verse is treated with deep musical pathos to express a full range of human emotion. Vespers also features virtuosic vocal concertos, including the first for basso profundo in English. Encounter this music that projects a vision of hope and light for all. The Saint Tikhon Choir was founded in 2015 by Benedict Sheehan, the group’s artistic director, and Abbot Sergius of St. Tikhon’s Monastery. It is the first professional vocal ensemble connected with an Orthodox monastery in America, founded with a mission to foster and build up the American Orthodox choral tradition at the highest artistic level.

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