The Russians are in the habit of singing the beatitudes and they do it beautifully. I'd normally try to direct you to a recording, but I can't do streaming anything right now, with my current bandwidth. But if you can do sheet music, there's a Greek setting here:
The Greeks are more "chant-y" in general than the Russians (who go all in for choral music). It's the base melody only-- chanters will tend to add little flourishes to it. But I kind of like that one-- chromatic is fun ;) Edit to add: I found a slavic melody here:
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Date: 2021-09-29 08:26 pm (UTC)https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/js/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=../../../../../m/dedes/en/oc/m2/d1/li/w/beatitudes123456TrTas5678910GB.pdf
The Greeks are more "chant-y" in general than the Russians (who go all in for choral music). It's the base melody only-- chanters will tend to add little flourishes to it. But I kind of like that one-- chromatic is fun ;) Edit to add: I found a slavic melody here:
http://ww1.antiochian.org/sites/default/files/5_hilko-the_beatitudes-2_final.pdf