PRAISE TO THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

The Moscow Churches’ Choir of Singers
Precentor Anatoly Kuleshov

2 CD (colour booklet, 52 pages)

2003 The Igor Matvienko Production Centre

This akathist is like a wreath interlaced with the most beautiful laudations for the Queen of Heaven. The exultant «O Victorious Leader…» was heard for the first time in 626 when Constantinople was saved from pagan siege by the intercession of the Mother of God. As a token of their gratitude for the miraculous escape the faithful sang a hymn with an exclamation «Rejoice!» all night long, and Constantinople patriarch Sergius composed this akathist.

Along with the Common chants the CD includes original authors" compositions performed by the soloists with choir («O Mother worthy of all praise», «O Victorious Leader» in various chants, Canon to the Mother of God, music of irmoses by P. Chesnokov; music of troparions by A.Arkhangelsky).

2 CD, color booklet (52 pages) in Russian and in English with a narration on the history of the akathist and the chants as well as with the full text of the Praise to the Most Holy Mother of God.

disc 1
1.	 Prayers at the beginning. God is the Lord… (Chant of the Laura of the Caves in Kiev)
2.	 Taking knowledge of the secret command… Troparion (Chant of the Laura of the Caves in Kiev)
3.	 O victorious leader of triumphant hosts… Kontakion 1 (Greek chant Music by Deacon Sergy Trubachev) / 0.92Mb
4.	 Ikos 1 – Kontakion 4 (Melody of the Sarov hermitage)
5.	 O victorious leader… (music by P.Ivanov-Radkevich)
6.	 The Little Litany (Common chant)
7.	 O victorious leader… (music by P.Chesnokov)
8.	 Ikos 4 – Kontakion 7 (Melody of the Sarov hermitage)
9.	 O victorious leader… (Valaam chant)
10.	 Canon to the Mother of God. Odes 1, 3 (music of irmoses by P. Chesnokov; music of troparions by A.Arkhangelsky)
11.	 O victorious leader… 9music by Priest Dimitry Allemanov)
12.	 Ikos 7 – Kontakion 10 (Melody of the Sarov hermitage)
13.	 O victorious leader… (Melody of the Ipatiev Monastery; music by D.Yaichkov)
14.	 Canon to the Mother of God. Odes 4, 5, 6 (music of irmoses by P. Chesnokov; music of troparions by A. Arkhangelsky)

disc 2
1.	 O victorious leader of triumphant hosts… (Three-line chant)
2.	 Ikos 10 – Kontakion 13 (Melody of the Sarov hermitage)
3.	 O Mother worthy of all praise… Kontakion 13 (Melody of the Sarov hermitage; anonymous composer) / 1.55Mb
4.	 A prince of angels was sent from heaven… Ikos 1 (Melody of the Sarov hermitage) / 0.77Mb
5.	 O victorious leader… (Bulgarian chant; arranged by A. Kuleshov) / 0.69Mb
6.	 Canon to the Mother of God. Odes 7, 8 (music of irmoses by P. Chesnokov; music of troparions by A.Arkhangelsky) / 0.71Mb
7.	 My soul doth magnify the Lord… (Kievan melody)
8.	 Canon to the Mother of God. Ode 9 (music of irmoses by P. Chesnokov; music of troparions by A.Arkhangelsky)
9.	 The Litany of Fervent Supplication (music by A.Grechaninov)
10.	 The Litany of Supplication (music by Hieromonk Feodosy (Ushakov)) / 1.03Mb
11.	 Dismissal
12.	 Prayer to the Mother of God
13.	 Magnification to the Mother of God (music by D.Bortnyansky) / 0.62Mb