Easter Sunday Soundtrack #11: “The Great Doxology”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The eleventh and final song to round out our Easter Sunday soundtrack for this year’s Pascha won’t leave your head. It’s a chant by The Monastic Choir of the Valaam Monastery called “The Great Doxology.” To those Orthodox Christians, Happy Pascha!
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #10: “Seven Magnificat Antiphons/O Weishit”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Number ten in our Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack is “Seven Magnificat Antiphons/O Weishit” — composed by Arvo Pärt. This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. It’s exquisite.
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #9: “The Healing Bird”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The ninth song in our Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack comes from the Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia, “The Healing Bird.” This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. Happy Pascha!
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #8: “Hayrapetakan Maghan”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Continuing our string of sacred choral music songs of Armenia, a prayer to the patriarch titled “Hayrapetakan Maghan.” This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. Happy Pascha!
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #7: “Our Es Myer Im”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The seventh song in our Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack, a chant of crucifixion, is part of the sacred choral music tradition of Armenia: “Our Es Myer Im“ meaning “Where are you, my mother.” This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. Happy Pascha!
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #6: “Batz Mez Ter”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The sixth song for tonight’s Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack is part of the sacred choral music of Armenia: “Batz Mez Ter” meaning “open for us.” This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. It’s exquisite.
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #5: “Otche Nash (Our Father)”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Number five in our Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack is ”Otche Nash (Our Father)” by the Russian composer of liturgical music Nikolai Kedrov, Sr.
This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. It’s exquisite.
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #4: “Spiegel Im Spiegel”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The fourth track in our Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack is “Spiegel Im Spiegel” — a piece by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978 that was originally written for a single piano and violin.
This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. It’s exquisite.
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #3: Rachmaninov’s “Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: Bless the Lord, O My Soul”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and an Orthodox Easter” has been on the repeat loop for most of this week. It’s exquisite, so I’m releasing each track over the next several hours (two are already up!) here on Tumblr. Reblog if you like, and share with your readers/listeners today.
Here’s the third song in our Easter Sunday soundtrack, Rachmaninov’s “Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31: Bless the Lord, O My Soul” by The Choir of the Moscow Church.
Easter Sunday Soundtrack #2: “Chashakum (Eucharist)”
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The second song in our Orthodox Easter Sunday soundtrack comes to you from Komitas Keshishian: “Chashakum (Eucharist)”. This track comes to you from the On Being playlist for “Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter” with Vigen Guroian. It’s exquisite.
