Angelic Singing! The Sisters of St. Elisabeth Convent perform All-Night Vigil Chants. PART 1

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0:00 - Introductory Psalm, 103 (Greek Chant)
04:38 - "Gentle Light" (Valaam Chant)
Vesper Hymn to the Son of God
06:36 - "Now lettest thou Thy servant depart" (Kievan Chant)
Prayer of St. Symeon the God-receiver
07:47 - "O Theotokos Virgin, rejoice!" (Kremlin Chant)
Song of the Most Holy Theotokos, or Dismissal Troparion
08:35 - God is the Lord. Tone 1 (Common Chant)
10:13 - Polyeleos / Praise Ye the Name of the Lord (Valaam Chant)
15:49 - From my Youth (Byzantine Chant)

✏ An All-Night Vigil (Greek: αγρυπνία - agrypnia, "without sleeping"; Slavonic: Vsenoshnoe Bdenie) is a combination of multiple services whose makeup varies significantly according to regional and local tradition. In the Byzantine tradition, the service lasts through the night, consisting of the entire liturgical cycle, culminating in the Divine Liturgy. In Slavic tradition, it does not last all night but normally includes Vespers (or Great Compline), Matins and the First Hour, and it is the standard Saturday evening service. In Russian practice, the All-Night Vigil is the standard Saturday evening service and usually consists of Vespers, Matins, and the First Hour—though on certain feasts, it includes Great Compline instead of Vespers.

✏ All the chants are performed by the Monastic Choir of St. Elisabeth Convent. This choir grew out of an amateur choir of the sisters of mercy who visited the patients of the National Psychiatric Hospital in Novinki. When St Elisabeth Convent was officially established in 1999, many of the choir members became nuns. That was how the monastic choir formed in the Convent. Currently, there are as many as 20-25 members of this choir, who sing during feasts. The Choir usually uses Znamenny and Byzantine chants, Valamo chant, and adds Byzantine and Greek chants on feasts, alongside Old Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Georgian chants.

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