BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

The Monastic Choir of the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour
Precentor Monk German (Ryabtsev)

1 CD (colour booklet)

1999 The Igor Matvienko Production Centre

You will hear selected Lenten hymns, such as «Open to me, O Giver of Life, the gates of repentance», «Let my prayer be set forth in Thy sight», of the All-Night Vigil («Bless the Lord, O my soul», «Blessed is the man», «O Gladsome Light») and also the Paschal hymns «The angel cried» and «Christ is Risen!».

The hymns are sung in the Greek and Valaam chants and are a witness of preserving the old traditions of church singing. These chants are close to one another, though they express the prayerful mood of a man in different ways.

Colour booklet-poster with a view of the Skete of All Saints in Valaam.

1.	 Behold, the bridegroom comes in the middle of the night (kievan chant)
2.	 Have mercy upon us, O Lord (valaam chant)
3.	 In Thee rejoiceth (greek chant)
4.	 Kontakion for the Nativity of Christ (greek chant) / 1.41Mb
5.	 Open to me, O Giver of Life, the gates of repentance (znamenny chant)
6.	 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight (common chant)
7.	 The Lord of Hosts (znamenny chant) / 2.33Mb
8.	 He Who clothes Himself in light as in a garment… (bulgarian chant)
9.	 Bless the Lord, O my soul (valaam chant)
10.	 Blessed is the man (valaam chant)
11.	 Stanza to Ss Sergius and Herman of Valaam (valaam chant)
12.	 Dogmatic, tone five (valaam chant) / 1.97Mb
13.	 O Gladsome Light (valaam chant)
14.	 Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ… (greek chant) / 1.66Mb
15.	 Katabasia, tone four (greek chant)
16.	 More honourable than the Cherubim… (greek chant)
17.	 The Great Doxology and Sunday Troparion (valaam chant)
18.	 The Cherubic Hymn (valaam chant)
19.	 The Angel cried (greek chant)
20.	 Paschal Troparion (greek chant)
21.	 It is meet… (valaam chant)

BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

Selected Lenten Paschal hymns of The Russian Orthodox Church The hymns are sung in the Greek and Valaam chants in the old traditions of church

BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

Selected Lenten Paschal hymns of The Russian Orthodox Church The hymns are sung in the Greek and Valaam chants in the old traditions of church

Selected Lenten Paschal hymns of The Russian Orthodox Church. The hymns are sung in the Greek and Valaam chants in the old traditions of church