Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in English

Just got my copy of this CD, It sounds awesome! Thanks to Fr. Isaac and all Fathers and Brothers at HTM for their dedicated work singing as well as editing and mixing. Spending these weeks with you tracking was truly one of the most unique and special moments of my life. Also a shout out to Cousin Niall for helping out on several sessions and Jeff Lipton at Peerless for Mastering (new website btw). The MP3 can’t do this justice but you can here one here. You can buy it here.

-Owen Curtin

By: Benjamin Williams
This recording was professionally recorded, edited and mastered, which results in a CD whose quality is every bit as good (and beautiful, in as much as each CD has icon images on them) as the packaging. This recording has been long awaited, from the Monastery that has set a standard in America for the highest quality translation and publication of liturgical service books. The sound is crystal clear, the singing is engaging and devotional because it is exactly what you would hear were you to worship at the Monastery for the Divine Liturgy. With one exception, the arrangements, like the translation, are those of the Monastery. Added to that is the completeness of the project–not just hymns from the Divine Liturgy–but the entire service with prayers and hymns most seldom heard (i.e. the Blessing of the Kollyva and the Dismissal hymns), and the result is simply terrific. A long awaited and worthy project, well executed! Fr. Isaac, Abbot of the Monastery, summarizes the goal of this undertaking as ” Our choir put a lot of love and labor into making it just as our translators do for the liturgical texts. We hope that English speaking Orthodox Christians will be edified and strengthened by it.”