Vespers

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)