The Holy Mountain, a millennium-old ark of Orthodoxy, is undoubtedly a womb that gives birth to and cultivates Byzantine melurgy and the art of chanting.

In the spirit of revitalizing the monastic community of Mount Athos, after a period of crisis and decline, the "Music School" of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi has been reactivated, which for centuries has musically educated the monks. This has bequeathed to the monastery significant melurgists, a rich sound archive, books, manuscripts, and, above all, a rich chanting tradition, which is continued by today's choir of the Monastery.

The systematic music study being carried out, which combines the knowledge of written form and the experience of oral chanting tradition, forms the basis of the current joint effort of the University Press of Crete and the Monastery of Vatopedi to fill a gap in the discography by creating a CD for each day of Holy Week.

These publications include all the classical compositions of the great composers for the Holy Passion, chanted according to the ancient Athonite style (with canon structures, echoes, antiphonal chanting, etc.).

The recordings were made on location because the chanting in its natural environment gains a different weight: The long daily musical interpretation of the hymns intersects with the ceaseless prayer, serving as an inherent element of monastic life, leading to a deeper experience of it.

There, the utterance and glorification of the Holy Passion by the mouths of the monks creates a poignant atmosphere and signifies a truly profound truth.