Hymns to the Holy Mother of God

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Release Date: 1995

Label: JADE

Includes elaborate notes on the modes, composers and texts.

Recorded by Patrick Gibaud at the Saint-Blaise church of Plan des Mées (August 1994).

Alternative track titles, from back page of booklet:

1) "O marvelous wonder..." Sticheron (Mode 1) for the Vespers of the Dormition of the Mother of God (15th August).
2) "At the divine command..." Doxastikon set in all eight modes for the Vespers of the Dormition.
3) The Great Supplicatory Kanon (Mode Plagal IV): Troparia from Odes 1, 8, and Megalynaria.
4) "I will take the Cup of Salvation." Communion Verse in the Fourth Mode for feasts of the Mother of God.
5) Three Stichera (Mode Plagal II) for the Vespers of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (25th March).
6) "Gabriel was sent..." Doxastikon (Mode Plagal II) for the Vespers of the Annunciation.
7) Odes 1 and 9 from the First (Mode II, eso) and Second (Mode Plagal IV) Kanons for the Nativity of the Mother of God (8th September)
8) Concluding Marian Trope (Theotokion) to Psalm 44 (45), the Polyeleos for Marian feasts.