Category: Recordings
Pre-Order Good Friday in Jerusalem NOW
Good Friday in Jerusalem Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Coming February 10, 2015! HELP US CHART THE RECORD by pre-ordering! Pre-Order on Amazon! Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in…
Good Friday in Jerusalem “in hand”
Stock of our February Good Friday in Jerusalem CD is now in hand! Street date for this release is February 10, but you can pre-order on Amazon NOW! Pre-Order on Amazon NOW! Cappella Romana’s latest release is in conjunction with our Good Friday in Jerusalem Concert Series in Seattle and Portland, February 6-8! Hear Medieval…
Looking Back on Arctic Light
As 2014 comes to a close, we look back on our Arctic Light concert and February CD release: Leitourgeia kai Qurbana Review Fanfare Magazine Interview Fanfare Magazine Review Video from the Arctic Light Concert: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132912947″ params=”color=a02d2d&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/128392841″ params=”color=a02d2d&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
MusicWeb International Reviews A Time For Life
Brian Reinhart of MusicWeb International reviews the new Cappella Romana release, A Time For Life: “There can be no questioning Kyr’s skill as a composer. Just listen to the first five minutes, as singers enter one-by-one — there are only eight — to the accompaniment of a single solitary cello. Many writers would need half…
Leitourgeia kai Qurbana reviews Arctic Light
Richard Barrett reviews the Cappella Romana Arctic Light recording on his Leitourgeia kai Qurbana blog: “Where there is an intriguing religious culture, one hopes there will also be an intriguing culture of religious music, and Fr. Ivan Moody, conducting Cappella Romana, makes the case for the music of the Orthodox Church of Finland on the…
#ThrowbackThursday — Fall of Constantinople Gramophone Review
Before this weekend’s presentations of The Fall of Constantinople, here’s a look back at Gramophone Magazine’s review of our recording of this repertoire: “English-speaking audiences commonly associate Greek Orthodox plainchant with the music of John Tavener, whose work draws substantially from its ethos. This recording confronts plainchant with the compositions of another Western composer, albeit…
From the Maximilian Steinberg Recording Sessions
Listen to a performance of Се, Жених грядет в полунощи (Behold, the Bridegroom cometh at Midnight) from the Maximilian Steinberg recording sessions at Stephan Roman Catholic Church: —UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!
Classical Net Reviews Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy
Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman with a fantastic review for our Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom recording: “Led by two Greek Orthodox clergy, this new look at The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is nothing short of ravishing. The beautifully recorded sound allows you to hear just how good these singers…
Classical Net Raves about A Time For Life
Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman has a wonderful new review for our A Time For Life recording: “I am contending that great religious music, really great religious music, touches us all through beauty, musical thought, and sincerity of purpose. Therefore, this project is not only a major statement of ecumenical ideals, but also a major musical…
Catholic Insight Reviews Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
On their new CD, Cappella Romana performs Byzantine musical treasures from the cathedrals and monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire which were preserved from destruction in the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai.… This music speaks to a higher self: its target is the divine and focuses the…
TWO New Cappella Romana CDs in Just FIVE Days!
We are officially FIVE days away from the release of TWO new Cappella Romana recordings! And the best part is, you can purchase BOTH recordings before they are officially released during this weekend’s concerts! Tikey Zes: Divine Liturgy Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America.…
Stream a track from “A Time For Life”
Robert Kyr: A Time For Life — Part II. Forgetting — xiii. Witness VI: The Sacred Way Pre-Order Today! An environmental oratorio by composer Robert Kyr, commissioned by Cappella Romana in 2007 and now recorded for the first time, this work explores the urgent issue of ecological crisis caused by humanity’s inability to live in…
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