Various Artists - Venice in the East - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This profoundly moving and powerful music bears witness to how ancient Greek and Latin liturgical traditions were richly embellished during the Renaissance on the islands of Crete and Cyprus, all within the shared cultural space of Venetian rule. First performed by Cappella Romana at the Early Music Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands). 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 RomeInch) and it's Slavic commonwealth. InchA sound world of unique beauty.Inch (Gramophone) InchYou'd have to have ice water in your veins to not be moved.Inch (Willamette Week) Album Tracks 1. Venite Et Ploremus 2. Popule Meus 3. Sticheron for the Holy Passion 4. Cum Autem Venissent Ad Locum 5. O Dulcissime 6. Verses of Lamentation for the Holy Passion (Ed. A. Gregoriou) 7. Sepulto Domino 8. Attollite Portas 9. Lift Up Your Gates 10. Attollite Portas, Quem Queritis (Entrance Dialogue) 11. Christ Has Risen (1) 12. Surrexit Christus! 13. Christ Has Risen (2) 14. Gloria in Excelsis 15. The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed 16. Body of Christ 17. One Who Has Seen Me 18. O Great Pascha 19. Káthisma (As Sung on the Holy Mountain) 20. Kalophonic Theotokíon for Cardinal Bessarion