1.  ‘The angels sing Thy Resurrection, O Christ the Saviour…’ Common chant tone six
‘Christ is Risen!’ Znamenny chant
Paschal verses Common chant
2. The Great Litany Common chant
Paschal Canon in Synodal chant:
Canticle 1 ‘The Day of Resurrection!’
Canticle 3 ‘O come, let us drink a new drink…’
Ipakoi ‘Forestalling the dawn…’ tone four Music by Archimandrite Feofan
Canticle 4 ‘May Habakkuk, divinely speaking, now stand with us in watch divine…’
Canticle 5 ‘Right early let us wake, and unto the Lord bring a song instead of myrrh…’
Canticle 6 ‘Thou didst descend into the nethermost parts of the earth…’
Kontakion ‘Though Thou didst descend into the grave,
O Deathless One…’ Music by Archimandrite Feofan
3. ‘We have seen the Resurrection of Christ…’ A.Arkhangelsky
4. Canticle 7 ‘He Who delivered the Holy Children from the fiery furnace…’
Canticle 8 ‘This is the chosen and holy Day…’
Refrain 1 of Canticle 9: ‘My soul magnifies Christ the Life-giver,
Who rose again from the tomb on the third day…’
Canticle 9 ‘Shine, shine, O New Jerusalem!’
5. Refrain 4 of Canticle 9: ‘The Angel cried unto her who is full of grace…’ Common chant Exapostilarion ‘Thou didst fall asleep in Thy flesh…’ Greek chant
6. Paschal stanzas Chant of the Court Capella
7. The Litany ‘Let us complete our morning prayer unto the Lord…’
‘Christ is Risen!’ Common chant
8.‘Let God arise…’ D.Bortnyansky
Priestly exclamations by a soloist of the choir Adrian Yarovitsky (tenor)
The Litanies performed by Arkhip Levchenko (bass) and Vladimir Magnushevsky (tenor)
Other soloists: Mikhail Olkhovoy (baritone) and Leonid Lugovskoy (baritone)
Recordings from the archives of Archpriest A. Dyakonov
Recorded by A. Bulatov on LP record-player assembled by A. Nemarsky
The listeners should be aware that most of the hymns were composed for combined choirs. Sergei Zharov arranged them for male choir, and it is his interpretation of these works that can be detected in them.
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