CD of Eastern Hymns in English?

[Horacio]

Would anyone here happen to know of a great CD of Eastern hymns in English? I’m not looking for a recording of the Divine Liturgy. I am looking for a CD of EC/EO hymns (particularly Hosts of Angels on High) in English.

Google/Bing searches and Amazon have not yielded anything. Any ideas? Thank you all.

 

[willkmn]

Here’s a great place to start. Holy Ghost in Philadelphia has a great choir with a number of CDs available.

holyghostphila.byzcath.org/recordings.php

Will

 

[WoundedIcon]

Capella Romana’s Lay Aside All Earthly Cares is good.

 

[5Loaves]

Would anyone here happen to know of a great CD of Eastern hymns in English? I’m not looking for a recording of the Divine Liturgy. I am looking for a CD of EC/EO hymns (particularly Hosts of Angels on High) in English.

Google/Bing searches and Amazon have not yielded anything. Any ideas? Thank you all.

What is “Host of Angels on High”?
I love the hymns of vespers, and Festal hymns. There are a number of good CD with those. I like this one Good and Faithful Servant (Choir of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church) You can listen to some clips here. It includes two traditional Russian bell rings.

Attend, O Heaven hymns of the Great Lent and Pascha, and Behold Your God, hymns from the feasts of Nativity, Theophany and the Meeting of the Lord.

Rejoice! Hymns to the Virgin Mary
Taste the Fountain of Immortality

You say you aren’t looking for Divine Liturgy so off topic, the only English language DL I have found of Byzantine style music is a wonderful 2 CD set from Cappella Romana The DIVINE LITURGY in English in Byzantine Chant. It includes a wonderful which they have made available on line here.

 

[Zekariya]

Here is a wonderful Eastern Orthodox CD that is in English: itunes.apple.com/us/album/id593927872?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 I enjoy listening to it.

 

[theistgal]

A Byzantine Catholic Church in Albuquerque NM put out a wonderful CD many years ago. Sorry I can’t remember the name of it but I still have a few left in our church’s gift shop (St. Mary’s in Sherman Oaks, CA) available upon request. It doesn’t have “Hosts of Angels” but has a lot of great stuff!

 

[Aramis]

What is “Host of Angels on High”?
I

Hosts of Angels on high
give you glory supreme
O’, Holy Trinity
Holy, Holy, Holy God
Holy, Holy, Holy Christ
Holy, Holy, Holy Paraclete
O’ Lord of Hight

Countless Angels on high
in the heavens above
praise you o’ Trinity
Holy, Holy, Holy God
Holy, Holy, Holy Christ
Holy, Holy, Holy Paraclete
O’ Lord of Hight

It’s in the Ruthenian “Byzantine Catholic Hymnal” (MCI, 2007)

 

[5Loaves]

Hosts of Angels on high
give you glory supreme
O’, Holy Trinity
Holy, Holy, Holy God
Holy, Holy, Holy Christ
Holy, Holy, Holy Paraclete
O’ Lord of Hight

Countless Angels on high
in the heavens above
praise you o’ Trinity
Holy, Holy, Holy God
Holy, Holy, Holy Christ
Holy, Holy, Holy Paraclete
O’ Lord of Hight

It’s in the Ruthenian “Byzantine Catholic Hymnal” (MCI, 2007)

Paraliturgical?

 

[Horacio]

Hosts of Angels on high
give you glory supreme
O’, Holy Trinity
Holy, Holy, Holy God
Holy, Holy, Holy Christ
Holy, Holy, Holy Paraclete
O’ Lord of Hight

Countless Angels on high
in the heavens above
praise you o’ Trinity
Holy, Holy, Holy God
Holy, Holy, Holy Christ
Holy, Holy, Holy Paraclete
O’ Lord of Hight

It’s in the Ruthenian “Byzantine Catholic Hymnal” (MCI, 2007)

 

[Horacio]

Paraliturgical?

Nope. It’s a hymn.

 

[5Loaves]

Nope. It’s a hymn.

In what service is it sung?

 

[Aramis]

In what service is it sung?

Incensational hymn. so, any divine liturgy. The Ruthenian tradition has about two dozen hymns (in the western sense) used during the opening incensation, and sometimes at the end of, and more rarely before the incensation begins, as part of the Divine Liturgy. Also, they are used if the psalm prescribed for the day has been completed, tho’ a strong preference for about 4 focused upon the Eucharist is present in the instructions.

The ones allowed for communion use:
I do believe / Viruju Hospodi 8
Give me your body, O Christ / T’ilo Christove 9

Not explicitly approved for communion use, but used anyway:
Holy this moment / Plivy svitami 6
Lord, in this holy mystery / Isusa v Svjatych Tajnach 7

Everything in the MCI hymnal is approved for incensational hymn use.

 

[theistgal]

The hymns Aramis has quoted are usually sung while people are going to Communion, in our church.

 

[Aramis]

The hymns Aramis has quoted are usually sung while people are going to Communion, in our church.

We use the appointed psalms for the day. On major feasts, we sometimes run through the entire psalm, and then break out the hymnal.

But we used to use the hymns in question a lot more, as well as three or four others.

 

[Horacio]

The hymns Aramis has quoted are usually sung while people are going to Communion, in our church.

Same in my own parish. I remember that was true of the one DL I saw celebrated on EWTN. Hosts of Angels on High was sung during the distribution of Holy Communion.

 

[5Loaves]

The hymns Aramis has quoted are usually sung while people are going to Communion, in our church.

Thank you for clarifying that. I’ve never heard them, including the 8 or so times I’ve been in Divine Liturgy in a Ruthenian parish. I’m used to “Receive the Body of Christ, Taste the Fountain of Immortality.” Or “Rejoice in the LORD, all you righteous; praise befits the just.”