Selections from the Presanctified Liturgy recorded live in the monastery chapel on the feast day of the Holy Forty Martyrs. These chants place the listener alongside the fathers within a moving atmosphere of worship in the Greek Orthodox tradition.  

If you are interested in traditional Byzantine Orthodox chant (especially from the Greek Orthodox Churches) and if you want Byzantine chant in Greek, you won't find a recording of the Divine Liturgy better than this! 

This recording represents years of work and includes all hymns of the liturgy sung to melodies common in the Greek Orthodox Churches, performed superbly, with delicacy and conviction.

The quality of the recording is very good: clear as a bell, good sound quality and resonance. The acoustics of the church used for the recording are excellent -- alive but without excessive reverberation -- and bring the recording to life. 

The counterplay of the chanting of the melody for each hymn with the underlying ison (a drone note, or a slow-moving lower vocal part) is wonderful, and some of the hymns recall the sound captured in a ground-breaking CD "Chant Byzantine." 

All in all, this is a "must have" for lovers of Byzantine chant.