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Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. This highly original Liturgy, which Zes dedicated to Cappella Romana, bears the marks of a composer long engaged with the traditions of Orthodox worship. Cumulatively opulent in it's variety, level of musical difficulty, and ecstatic polyphonic climaxes, this Liturgy achieves a balance of splendor with restraint that is, in an inculturated and dignified musical idiom, thoroughly Byzantine. 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 (InchNew RomeInch) and it's Slavic Commonwealth. Album Tracks 1. Litany of Peace 2. The Three Antiphons 3. The Small Entrance 4. Trisagion 5. Alleluiarion and Gospel 6. The Cherubic Hymn 7. The Litany of the Precious Gifts 8. The Holy Oblation 9. Megalynarion 10. Conclusion of the Holy Oblation 11. Litany of the Lord's Prayer 12. Communion Verse for Sunday 13. Communion of the Laity 14. Post-Communion and Dismissal 15. Prayer Behind the Ambo and Final Dismissal
