Cappella Romana - Music of Byzantium - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With over 14,000 copies sold, this album was released for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2004 exhibit InchByzantium Faith and Power.Inch It features Byzantine music from 1261 to 1557, including two laments, one in Green, and one in Latin and Old French, for the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. 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. Kontakion (InchTo You My ChampionInch) 2. Imperial Acclamations for Constantine XI Palaiologos (1449-1453) 3. Kontakion for Theophany 4. Festal Trisagion (InchAs Many of You As Have Been BaptisedInch) 5. Anagrammatismos for Theophany 6. Sticheron Apostichon Idiomelon for St. Basil 7. Kalophonic Coda for St. Basil/A New Addition 8. Kyrie Cunctipotens Genitor 9. Kanon in Honor of St. Thomas Aquinas Ode I 10. Communion for Mid-Pentecost 11. Lament for the Fall of Constantinople 12. Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae 13. O Great and Most Sacred Pasha