[B-Greek] Greek liturgies in audio

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Jul 16 11:19:26 EDT 2004


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:18:09 -0700 "Philip Silouan Thompson"
<himself at philthompson.net> writes:
> James Bowick wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I could get Cds or cassettes of
> > liturgies in Greek, esp. the liturgies of Chrysostom,
> > and Basil the Great?
> 
> Apologies to the list if this is too far off-topic; followups by 
> private
> email are fine with me.
> 
> Dear James,
> 
> On CD here's a page with a number of different versions:
> http://www.hchc.edu/bookstore/pages/Christmas2003/musicandvideos.asp
> 
> And here's one you can listen to online:
> http://realserver.goarch.org/ram/liturgy.ram
> 
> For what it's worth, except for the theotokion, the Liturgies of 
> Basil and
> Chrysostom are identical from the point of view of the choir and
> congregation. The clergy's prayers are rather longer in St Basil's 
> Liturgy,
> though most of those are intercessions and such that are spoken 
> inaudibly.
> Many CDs of the Liturgy include only the hymns and responses, since 
> the
> clergy parts are usually intoned in either monotone or ekphonesis. 
> 
> Also don't be surprised if the language you hear on these CDs is 
> pronounced
> more like modern Castilian Spanish than like Latin; that's how it's 
> spoken
> today. (2000 years of Arabic and Mediterranean influences have 
> affected
> Castilian and modern Greek pronunciation almost identically.)
> 
> Hope that's helpful,
> 
> Philip Silouan Thompson
> himself at philthompson.net
> http://www.philthompson.net
> Walla Walla, Washington USA
> ---

You might also try
http://www.ecclesia.gr/Multimedia/Audio_Index/audioindex_en.html

george
gfsomsel



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