In this Easter special, doctoral research fellow Kristina Sočanski Čelik shares her insights and reminiscences of Eastern Easter - and the religious musical traditions of the Orthodox Christian church. Based on her research on how contemporary composition relates sonic experiences to the spiritual, this show takes listeners across the Greek, Ukrainian, Serbian, and North Macedonian Easter soundscapes, while offering folkloric and sacral readings of the works of Ljubica Marić and Arvo Pärt.

Listening List:

1. The Sorrowful Mother - Vydubychi Church Chorus

2. Anastaseos Imera - Divna Ljubojevic & "The Melodists" Choir

3. Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten – Norwegian Chamber Orchestra – Terje Tønnesen, conductor

4. Arvo Pärt – Für Alina – Kristina Socanski, piano

5. Ljubica Marić – The Byzantine Concerto - Olga Jovanović, piano - Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra - Oskar Danon, conductor

6. Serbian Octoechoe – Gospodi Vozzvah – Voice 1 – Marija Jovićević, Nikola Radunović, chanters

7. Stevan Mokranjac – Passion Week – Radio Television Belgrade Choir – Vladimir Kranjčević, conductor

8. Trad: Easter Ring Dance (Veligdensko oro) – Bajsa Arifovska

References:

"The Revised Julian Calendar". Time and Date. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

Ribic, Romana. (2014). “Audio Recordings of Hymns from the Octoechos as

Written Down by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac”. New Sound 43, I/2014.

Cizmic, Maria and Helbig, Adriana. "10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives". Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred, edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2020, pp. 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823289783-010