Famous Orthodox hymn for the feast of feasts - Holy Pascha (Easter) - composed by one of the Church Fathers - st. John Damascene. It is chanted during the Paschal Matins.
In this video there is just the hirmos of the first ode of this Canon, however sung by various choirs in different languages and melodies:
Church Slavonic (subtitles - Russian transcription),
English (with subtitles),
Church Slavonic (byzantine chant; subtitles - transcription in latin alphabet),
Greek (melody from XIII century, with subtitles),
Church Slavonic (composed by Vedel),
Romanian (composed by Paul Constantinescu),
Church Slavonic (performed by Hungarians),
Arabic (with subtitles),
Church Slavonic (Serbian chant composed by Mokranjac; subtitles - Serbian cyryllic transcription),
Albanian,
Church Slavonic (old Russian chant),
French,
Church Slavonic (Russian ’Greek’ chant),
Romanian (byzantine chant, with subtitles),
Church Slavonic (Moscow chant),
Spani
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