This recording is part 2 of 4 of a programme titled Musical Legacy of Ancient Israel. This part contains Psalms, Bible cantillation, prayers, hymns, and other cantoral music.

But their imaginative flight is based on considerable experience and expertise with the material itself – material that includes monophonic chants from Scandinavia (hymns to St Sunniva and St Birgitta ...

NEW YORK — On the feast of the Transfiguration in 1994, then-seminarian Elias Rafaj made the journey to visit the monastic village of Ormylia in Greece, home to the largest women’s monastery in the ...

Beneath the dense jungle canopy of Mexico’s Campeche region, a sprawling Maya city and thousands of surrounding structures sat undetected for centuries. No expedition on foot found them. No satellite ...

In the valleys of the Hindu Kush Mountains in northern Pakistan, the Kalasha tribe resides. Music is an indispensable pillar of their identity, serving as the primary repository of their unwritten ...

Their names used to reverberate through early morning prayers, fire rites, and sacred chants. As guardians of rain, fire, dawn, and justice, they were the lifeblood of ancient Indian devotion. But ...

Around midnight, a group of young men, dressed in black, assembles on the Vypeen beach. One of them, 26-year-old Godson Gladwin, is carrying a large wooden cross adorned with a single strand of ...