950 YEARS OF KIEV PECHERSK MONASTERY.
SELECTED CHANTS OF
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

This rare and hard to find music CD represent the best sacred chants and praise and worship music of Russian Orthodox Church performed by the famous Monastic Choir of Kiev Pechersk (Caves) Monastery which for many centuries is the legend and as the magnet attracts thousands visitors and pilgrims.
The first track on this CD is very old and soulful traditional monk chant of Kiev Pechersk monastery "Thy Resurrection" which opens the Easter Day. It's rare and unusual recording of this chant because the monk chanting is accompanied by bells ringing of Big Lavra's Bell Tower.

"Receive Yea the Body of Christ" is Eucharistic sacred chant. In the meeting of believers after the prayer of the whole Church and the priest's blessing, the bread and the vine by the action of the Holy Spirit become The Body and The Blood of Lord Jesus Christ. These Holy Divine Sacraments are destined for receiving by the believers, which via forgiving the sins and communion with the Lord and with each other into the single body of Church, reach blessful eternal life.
"Bless Is The Man" (ancient Kiev monk chant), "O, Gladsome Radiance" ( by P.Rechkunov) and "Now Lettest Thou Depart" (anonymous) are three most beautiful sacred chants of the all-night vigil service.
The conductor of the Monastic Choir of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is hieromonk Geronty. He is also very good singer with very peculiar voice. His solo at" O THEOTOKOS AND VIRGIN REJOYS" is amazing and I'm sure this chant will melt your hart.
In the early centuries of the church, Christians sang in unison. The music used was never written out, but simply transmitted orally. The use of instruments in Christian worship was discouraged by the early church fathers (i.e., St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom) as they felt that instrumentation distracted the mind from thoughts of God and turned them toward the self.
Traditional praise and worship music of Kiev