St. Nicholas Center ::: Liturgical

Akathist to St. Nicholas

Chanted in English by Dr. Jane M. de Vyver

Firebird Productions, audio tape A-11

Tape #4: A Treasury of Orthodox Christian Prayers, Vol. 2

Each Akathist is an extended hymn-prayer of veneration, thanksgiving, and petition, in 13 sections

Akathist to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Ss. Andrew and Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral

Kiev, Ukraine

Akathist to Saint Nicholas chanted in Church Slavonic.

Apolytikion of Our Holy Father Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (Wonder-worker)

Chester Music, Special Order Edition, copy in Sir Tavener's hand written notation

Strict rule of faith, and in age of meekness, of self-discipline teacher,
You've revealed to your flock the things of truth:
For this you acquired the highest humility, the richest poverty.
Holy Father Nicholas, Pray to Christ God to save our souls

Written in 1988 at the request of Nicholas Tuckett, specifically for a recording made by the Kastalsky Chamber Choir in London. "Apolytikion" is a Greek word meaning dismissal hymn. The text is a brief extolling of the saint's virtues followed by the invocation "Holy Father Nicholas, pray to Christ God to save our souls", at which point the music changes from flowing melodiousness to a powerful expanding chord which then contracts again, to end on an octave.
—Ivan Moody

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Apolytikion of St. Nicholas

IKON Records IKO 9007

Short selection of Orthodox chant on a full recording of the "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom"

Good and Faithful Servant

Choir of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

Archpriest Stephan Meholick, Director

San Anselmo, California

This collection of liturgical music around the church year includes St. Nicholas Lítia verse, St. Nicholas Kontakion, and St. Nicholas Exapostilarion.

Purchase from Liturgica.com

Great Vespers of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

The Schola Cantorum of Saint Peter the Apostle

J. Michael Thompson, Director

The Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS Cyril and Methodius

The Great Vespers includes hymnody, and an intercessory procession connected with the Saint Nicholas.
Complete text and audio files

Purchase from Byzantine Seminary Press

Greatly Rejoice: Orthodox Christmas Hymns and Carols

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church Choir, Bethlehem Pennsylvania

Includes O, who loves Nicholas the Saintly and the short Bells of Saint Nicholas

Hymns of Praise (Troparia and Kontakia): For Sunday School and Choir

Traditional Melodies Transmitted and Arranged by James C. Meena, Priest

The Syrian-Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of New York and All North America

Second Edition 1964

Music notation

Includes the Troparion for Saint Nicholas—Dec. 6 TONE 4

Purchase from Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese Publications Dept

Jubilee Mass in Honor of Saint Nicholas

Music by Flor Peeters

Choral Score, Edition Peters No. 66289, C. F. Peters Corporation, New York

for Mixed Voices and Organ

Settings for Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei

Setting of the western eucharistic rite, dedicated to the honor of St. Nicholas.

Mass in Honor of Saint Nicholas in G Major

Music by Franz Joseph Haydn

Choral Score, Kalmus K 06242, Warner Bros. Publications

for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra with Latiin text

Settings for Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus

Powerful setting of the western eucharistic rite, dedicated to the honor of St. Nicholas;
many recordings available

Missa Sancti Nicolai

Nicholas O'Neill

(2008)

Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei

Musical notation PDF

For Nicholas Gale, Thomas Wilson, and the gentlemen and boys of St George's Cathedral Southwark

Moleiben and Akathist to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker:

with the ringing of church bells

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Howell, New Jersey

St. Herman's Conference 1997

CD SHC975

The Moleiben is a service of thanksgiving

Purchase from Orthodox Christian Recorded Books

Myron Melodikon – Orthros for St. Nicholas

Chanter's Choir of St. Nicholas

Sabbas Kenanides AB041

The service for Orthros (Greek Matins) for the Feast of St. Nicholas. Traditional contemporary Byzantine chant of thirteen selections for the service.

Russia: Popular and Traditional Songs

Chœr Svetylène

Harmonia Mundi CD RUS 788167

Includes Verset spirituel de Saint Nicolas, a short spiritual verse to Saint Nicholas:

Whoever loves Saint Nicholas,
whoever serves Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas: Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
The Renown of Fathers

TROPOS Byzantine Choir

Centre for the Study of the Art of Chant, 2008

Athens, Greece

Text in Greek and English

Small hard bound book with CD

Nine tracks in honor of St. Nicholas, many published for the first time; book contains an address by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, information about Saint Nicholas, description, commentary on, and poetry texts of the chants, illustrated by icons from Mount Athos

Sainteté Russe: Russian Holiness Orthodox Chants

Chœur Saint Nicolas

Studio SM D2543/SM 62

One Nicholas selection: Tropaire a Saint Nicolas

St. Nikolaus Messe

1992

Mauthausen, Austria

Text: Leopold Wandl
Music: Alfred Hochedlinger

Sample and Gloria audio

The Mass includes, Introit, Opening song, Kyrie, Gloria, Hallelujah, Bidding, Offertory, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Benediction, with some congregational singing; available for SABT and organ and wind quartet

Purchase from A. Hochedlinger