Traditional Music UNESCO World Heritage

This concert also showcases a musical tradition that was added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2019. A living art form that has existed for over two thousand years, Byzantine chant highlights and musically enhances liturgical texts and is inextricably linked to spiritual life and religious worship. Focusing mainly on the rendering of the ecclesiastical text, it has remained essentially unchanged over the centuries: it is exclusively vocal music; it is essentially monophonic; it uses an eight-mode or eight-tone system; it employs different rhythmic styles to accentuate the desired syllables, giving primary value to the word (logos) from which it springs.

 

Music Program

Ancient Russian singing

Veruju (Nicene Creed)

Nikolai Kedrov (1871-1940)

Otčenaš (Our Father)

Cherubic hymn from Russian Orthodox “Obikhod”

Iže Heruvimi e Jako da Carja

soloist Uroš Djukanović, bass

Aleksej Kosolapov

Utverdi Bože (Strenghten, Christ God)

soloist Milan Mladenov, baritone

Boris Dodonov

Veličianije (Exaltation) of St. Spyridon

soloists: Milan Mladenov, baritone – Uroš Djukanović, bass

Ancient Serbian Orthodox Chant

Carju Nebesni (Heavenly King)

soloist Katarina Spasić, mezzo-soprano

Stevan Mokranjac (1856-1914)

Eucharistic Canon, from the Liturgy:

Milost mira – Svjat, svjat, svjat – Tebje pojem

(Mercy of peace – Holy, holy, holy – We sing to you)

soloists: Aleksandar Petrovski, tenor – Milan Mladenov, baritone – Uroš Djukanović, bass

Kornelije Stanković (1831-1865)

Dostojno jest (Truly worthy)