Russian worship music

[Margery]

- YouTube Tchaikovsky wrote most of his music for the church actually, and it's become a mainstay among Russian Orthodox churches where the choirs sing a capella.

This is the hymn of the Cherubim. It was sung at both my mother in law and father in law's funerals.

And this is 2 hours of church music, assorted hymns. This is what is sung from the choir. In both the 2 Orthodox churches that my Russian inlaws attended the choir would sing from an upper chamber above the church at set points in the service.

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At 21:28 Ghoz ba de vanilloy the song is a solemn one, asking for the mercy of God. This is sung at every church service I can recall, but front and centre on solemn occasions. I'm spelling it phonetically, I have no idea how to transliterate that from Cyrillic in Russian to English in the Alphabet. It basically repeats the phrase God have mercy over and over.

 

[mattfivefour]

So beautiful!!! Rich, deep, and moving ... even without being able to understand the words. I felt true worship. Almost angelic at times. It carried much more a sense of holiness and the worship of God for me than the majority of contemporary Christian music.

 

[Margery]

- YouTube This is all Tchaikovsky, named by him and is a full Russian Orthodox (mislabeled here by the You Tuber as Greek Orthodox) church service sung by the choir as it would be done in any service.

In between these hymns the priest sings (musically chants or intones) the reading of the Bible and the service (RO priests are not like Roman Catholic- these are like Anglican priests- they are married, and in fact you can't be a priest unless you ARE married, and unmarried clergy are never allowed to move ahead in the ranks, those men are relegated to vows as monks and are under the priests)

this one starts with the God Have Mercy hymn and includes a Hallelujah hymn that I remember and loved.

You will notice that there is nothing to do with Mary in the formal liturgy, but that it begins with a plea to God to have mercy, moving into praise to God the Father,

then a call to worship. which opens things into the Alleluia or Hallelujah, Glory be to Thee (Glorifying God), Hymn of the Cherubim (entering into the praises of heaven)

another cry for God's Mercy

Then the Apostle's Creed which is sung and that way memorized by the congregants

More of God's Mercy, this time about His peace, More praise,

then It is Meet is part of the communion part of the service,

The Amen, The Lord's Prayer, all part of the communion

followed by
Praise Ye the Lord and
the final hymn Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord



Here's the time stamps:
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41:

00:00:00 I. Lord, have mercy

00:03:11 II. Glory be to the Father

00:07:21 III. O come, let us worship

00:11:37 IV. Alleluia

00:12:47 V. Glory be to Thee

00:16:40 VI. Hymn of the Cherubim

00:24:30 VII. Lord, have mercy

00:26:34 VIII. The Creed

00:31:01 IX. The mercy of peace

00:34:18 X. We sing Thee

00:37:36 XI. It is meet

00:41:43 XII. Amen, and with Thy spirit

00:43:25 XIII. Our Father

00:47:18 XIV. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens

00:50:32 XV. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord