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WHEN AUGUSTUS REIGNED Christmas Music from the Byzantine Tradition Cappella Romana Alexander Lingas, Musical Director cappellaromana.org Featuring beautiful ancient and contemporary music for the Christmas Season, including 12th- and 13th-century Byzantine chants never before heard by modern audiences. The disc also presents elegant choral settings of traditional Byzantine hymns for Christmas and Epiphany by Greek composer Michael Adamis and Greek Americans Frank Desby, Peter Michaelides and Tikey Zes. The title track was commissioned by Cappella Romana from John Vergin.
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