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 it's 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 it's exploration of early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West. It's 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 it's Slavic commonwealth. Heaven and Earth is Cappella Romana's 27th release.

Tracklist:

Ikon of Light~PhÃ³s I
Ikon of Light~DÃ³xa
Ikon of Light~TrisÃ¡gion I
Ikon of Light~Mystic Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Ikon of Light~TrisÃ¡gion II
Ikon of Light~PhÃ³s II
Ikon of Light~EpiphÃ¡nia
Come, let us worship....Bless the Lord, O my soul (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
Stretching out the heavens (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
deep, like a cloak (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
He waters the mountains (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
He made the moon (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
There is the sea (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
May the glory of the Lord endure to the ages (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
Glory to the Father. Both now. (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)
Alleluia. Glory to you. (Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation)

UPC: 753459636084
Label: Cappella Romana
Release Date: 10.28.22
Format: CD

Arndt / Cappella Romana - Heaven & Earth (Hybr) (2pk) (CD)