Description
Apolytikion tis Pentikostis – Απολυτίκιον της Πεντηκοστής
Dismissal hymn (Troparion-Apolytikion) for Pentecost.
Original Byzantine chant, followed by my polyphonic setting of the Dismissal hymn for the time of Pentecost.
Originally written for Stephen Rainbird and his Choros Gregorianos in Totnes.
Performed here by the dwsChorale.
Scores:
Apolytikion homophonic version
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/626228/Product.aspx?affiliate=65222
Apolytikion polyphonic version
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/626230/Product.aspx?affiliate=65222
(Note from Stephen Rainbird for any purists who might have preferred the traditional chant alone:
Many 20th and 21st century Russian composers are doing similar things to this, so these more complex settings are not unknown in the Orthodox world.
I therefore just hope that choirs not only from the Greek and Russian Orthodox traditions but also from other areas of the Christian choral world will be interested in performing this arrangement of this beautiful Byzantine chant)