A leading interpreter of the Byzantine chant proposes a repertoire whose history is lost in the mazes of time. The chant performed by just one voice, without instruments and based on the so-called ecclesiastical tones, unfolds amidst odes and canons, poems, troparions and hallelujahs. But it is especially the expression of the Greek civilisation that, as the artist explains, “includes Orthodox hymns and also a large variety of folk songs: songs of the sea, of the distant homeland and of love, which mirror the deep religious feelings of mankind” that finds its complete expression in music and in the chant. She explains that, “In Greece the musical world is divided into two macrocosms, religious Byzantine music and traditional music, both issuing from ancient Greek music. The main difference lies in the scope of the chant: it can either honour God or sing about daily life and the events of mankind, from birth to death”.
June 27: Vespers a San Vitale
June 28: Chiostro della Biblioteca Classense
- La Repubblica: Nektaria Karantzi riporta in vita la musica bizantina
https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2019/06/27/nektaria-karantzi-riporta-in-vita-la-musica-bizantinaBologna18.html
- https://www.ravennafestival.org/en/events/il-canto-greco-bizantino/