Voice of an Angel Album is finished!

Our new cultural project is finished!
The album " Voice of an Angel" with soloist young and successful opera singer Plamen Papazikov.
St.Paraskeva Cathedral's choir with 13 years of history and over 1,000 performances in Bulgaria and abroad!

Unforgedable experience. June 2016.

Last monht we had guests. Very special guests from France.

We felt very happy and honored that we had the chance to show them the real beauty of our cathedral.

We welcomed our guests with traditional Bulgarian 

bread at the entrance of the cathedral. 

We performed special concert for our guests with 

Slavonic Orthodox Music from Bulgaria, Russia etc. 

Our dear guests were fascinated. 

"Spiritual Light" CD was preferred souvenir. 

With this post we want to thank our guests from France for coming to visit  St. Paraskeva " Cathedral and to hear our live concert. 

May God bless you! 

Welcome back to Bulgaria and visit our new programm in "St. Aleksander Nevsky" Cathedral!

Orthodox Music in Sofia. Spiritual Light album.

" Spiritual Light " CD album  brings the grace of the Holy Orthodox Liturgy.

The CD is recorded not in a studio but inside the temple, under the notorious huge dome of the basilica "St. Paraskeva "in Sofia, Bulgaria.

 "Spiritual Light" CD  is facing with great interest of many pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. Connoisseurs from: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Germany, Italy, Canada, Russia, Finland, France, Switzerland are very interested to take our CD home after they have listen to the choir in “St.Paraskeva” cathedral.

"Spiritual Light" is licensed by the Ministry of Culture in Bulgaria, all rights reserved.

contact: 

e-mail: paraskeva.choir@gmail.com; classical.sofia@gmail.com

How to purchase?

If you send us an e-mail of free request, we could send you an offer with quantity, prices, method of payment and transport costs for 20, 50 and 100 units of “Spiritual Light” CD  to a location you specify. 

Kyrie Eleison 13th century

 “Some peace, being humble, closer to God…I do feel such things while listening to Orthodox chants, they bring me joy or open to nice mild sadness. They are consolatory and consoling”...

Mr. Krasimir Ivantchovski, surveyor

Spiritual Light CD

pthoto: St.Paraskeva Cathedral

The Magnificent golden collection of Christian music from Bulgaria SPIRITUAL LIGHT

What is "Spiritual Light"?

"Spiritual Light" is a special selected collection of Orthodox chants composed from the 13^th  up to the 20^th century.

The CD includes inspired performances by the professional cathedral choir from "St. Paraskeva " orthodox church in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The choir is one of the first quality vocal ensembles in Bulgaria.

" Spiritual Light " CD  brings the grace of the Holy Orthodox Liturgy.

The CD is recorded not in a studio but inside the temple, under the notorious huge dome of the basilica "St. Paraskeva" in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Spiritual Light CD  is facing with great interest of many pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. Connoisseurs from: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Germany, Italy, Canada, Russia, Finland, France, Switzerland are very interested to take our CD home after they have listen to the choir in “St.Paraskeva” cathedral.

"Spiritual Light" CD is licensed by the Ministry of Culture in Bulgaria, all rights reserved.

How to purchase:

We could send you an offer with quantity, prices, method of payment and transport costs for 20, 50 and 100 units of “Spiritual Light” CD  to a location you specify, please send us an e-mail of free request to: paraskeva.choir@gmail.com.  

What do you feel while listening to Orthodox Church music?

“I listen to Orthodox music while I'm working; especially when I'm tired or tense…I am listening… and it calms me down. That way I am able to solve problems more quickly and stay relaxed and in inner peace’’

Ivaylo Naumov, project manager

Bless The Lord O My Soul, psalm 102, D. Christov

What do you feel while listening to Spiritual Light CD?...

“Some peace, being humble, closer to God…I do feel such things while listening to Orthodox chants, they bring me joy or open to nice mild sadness. They are consolatory and consoling”Marin Krassimirov, surveyor

Orthodox chants wiki

What IS?

ORTHODOX CHANTS 

Chant of Constantinople more commonly known as Byzantine Chant is the sacred chant of the Orthodox churches in the former lands of the eastern Roman Empire and many of their ecclesiastical offshoots beyond those areas. This tradition, encompassing the Greek-speaking world, developed in Byzantium from the establishment of its capital, Constantinople, in 330 until its fall in 1453. It is undeniably of composite origin, drawing on the artistic and technical productions of the classical age, on Jewish music, and inspired by the monophonic vocal music that evolved in the early Christian cities of Alexandria, Antioch, and Ephesus. In the Orthodox Church today, many churches use Byzantine Chant as their primary musical tradition, including the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, and Albania.

SPIRITUAL LIGHT CD

Brilliant collection of spiritual pearls - the most moving Orthodox Chants.

Prayers, blessings and spiritual songs of the most famous Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian composers since 19th century to the present days!

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Christina Vladova, IT specialist

 “While  listening to most Orthodox chants I feel as if lifted from the ground…it is such a natural feeling…I feel calm, like I am doing meditation…I literally feel I am elevated…yes, it is like a kind of healing treatment, you feel much better after listening to Orthodox Chants”...

Spiritual Light

Music of the Orthodox Church. This is how it really sounds -  Orthodox Christian chants live.  No microphones, amplifiers and computer sound enhancement.




Chants of the Holy Eucharist. 

Composer: Apostol Nikolaev Strumski. 
The composer (early 20th century) was longtime choirmaster of the Cathedral "St. Alexander Nevsky" in Sofia. The hereditary musician-Nikolaev Strumski is aligned with taste and respect to the old tunes.
Solo: Vasil Antov.

At that time the priest prays in the Altar so that the bread and wine become  Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. 

Live performance from  Festival of Orthodox music in Bulgaria, Pomorie.

St. Paraskeva Cathedral in Sofia

St.Paraskeva Cathedral is located in the old center of Sofia. 

It is known as the Orthodox Basilica with the best acoustics in Bulgaria!


St.Paraskeva Cathedral is also famous for its unique architecture.


It is the project of Bulgarian architect Anton Torniov (early 20 century). 

The vast roof is a round room with a diameter of over 20 meters!

The cathedral is unique creation that rivals masterpieces such as the Pantheon in Rome and "St. Sofia" in Istanbul.

St. Paraskeva Cathedral has a professional choir, known for its beautiful, touching the heart sonority and rich repertoire of liturgical chants, participation in Bulgarian feature films, music projects for the Ministry of Culture, sound recordings.


More than 10 000 guests of Sofia have visited the cathedral and were very impressed of it's unique acoustics during amazing choir performances.