Alexander Nevsky Cathedral Tallinn - Ringing during the Liturgy
Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery Pechory - Funeral bells
Holy Dormition Convent of Women Pühtitsa - Funeral bell-ringing
Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery Pechory - Ringing during the Holy Week
Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery Pechory - Polyeleon bell-ringing
Holy Dormition Convent of Women Pühtitsa - Trezwon feast day bell-ringing
Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery Pechory - Ringing during the Great Doxology
Holy Trinity Church Salessje - Trezwon feast day bell-ringing
Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery Pechory - Feast ringing
Church of the 40 Martyrs Pechory - Trezwon feast day bell-ringing
Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius Sergiyev Posad - Feast ringing of the Great Belfry
Convent of the New Virgins Moscow - Trezwon feast day bell-ringing

Unlike Western Christianity, the bells of the Russian Orthodox Church are not rung but struck. The bell itself is firmly fixed and the clapper is struck at the edge of the bell with the help of a rope.

The recordings on this CD were made during the times of the former Soviet Union and document the bells of famous Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries in Moscow (New Virgin Monastery), Sergiyev Posad (Church of the 40 Martyrs), Pechory (Pskov-Caves Monastery) in Russia, and Tallinn (Cathedral) and Püchty (Convent of the Defunction of Mary) in Estonia.

---

Original Recordings from the former USSR, 1988.