Vespers
Roman Hurko
This work is a setting of the traditional Orthodox Vesper service in Church Slavonic. This contemporary Canadian-Ukrainian composer’s music is « transcendent…, neither modern nor traditional, » harmonious with the Eastern Church’s timeless iconography.
1. Come, let us worship
2. Bless the Lord, O my Soul (Psalm 103)
3. The Great Litany
4. Blessed is the man
5. The Small Litany
6. O Lord, I have cried to You (Psalm 140)
7. Tranquil Light
8. The Prokeimenon of Saturday
9. The Litany of Fervent Supplication
10. O Lord, keep us this evening
11. The Litany of Petition
12. Song of Symeon
13. Hail Mother of God
14. Blessed be the Name of the Lord
15. Dismissal
16. Heavenly King
17. Let my prayer rise
18. Irmos of the Ninth Ode for the Exaltation of the Cross
19. Irmos of the Ninth Ode for the Exaltation of the Cross (arr. R. Hurko, sung in English)