Looking Ahead…
The next Cappella Romana performance features Rachmaninoff’s 1910 a cappella work Divine Liturgy – The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. “Not for a long time…have I written anything with such pleasure.” —Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1910 Come and hear Rachmaninoff’s setting as it might have been sung in an actual service! Purchase Tickets Today Portland8pm, Fri., Jan. 11,…
Cyber Monday on CappellaRomana.Org
Capella Romana launches Cyber Monday Sale – for the entire week! Order Two or More CDs and get 50% Off your Entire Order on CappellaRomana.org! Add your items to the cart and use promo code “2for1“ Offer ends Friday, November 30th at Midnight This includes our two recent releases Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium and…
The Oregonian Reviews Santiago de Compostela Concert
The reviews are in! James McQuillen of The Oregonian reviews our Santiago de Compostela concert with Marcel Pérès: “An iconoclastic musicologist with an intimate knowledge of a vast range of early liturgical song, Pérès joined Portland’s Cappella Romana at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Friday night for a concert that should rank among the ensemble’s many…
OregonLive Review: Re-creation of 12th century vespers service is a milestone
By James McQuillen, Special to The Oregonian on November 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM, updated November 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM The sound of medieval chant prevalent in the modern imagination — limpid and ethereal, with barely a suggestion of rhythm or of the physical presence of the people who sing it — is a…
Cappella Romana In Rehearsal with Marcel Pérès
A look behind the scenes at a rehearsal with Marcel Pérès from earlier in the week:
Playlist – A Conversation with Marcel Pérès
Buy your tickets today! Concerts: Portland – 8pm, Friday, November 16th, St. Mary’s CathedralSeattle – 8pm, Saturday, November 17th, St. James Cathedral
Marcel Pérès offers program notes for Codex Calixtinus Concert
Ibi barbare gentesomnium mundi climatumcatervatim occurrunt,munera laudis Domino deferentes, Alleluia Foreign nations hasten therefrom all over the world,bringing with them gifts of praiseto the Lord. Alleluia!(First antiphon, Vespers of St James) Since the ninth century the apostle St James has been the object of great faith and fervour in the Western Christian world. Even today…
Conversations with Marcel Pérès – Part One – Why the Codex Calixtinus?
Cappella Romana opens its 21st Annual Season with MARCEL PÉRÈS–of France’s world-renowned ENSEMBLE ORGANUM–leading the Byzantine chant ensemble of Cappella Romana in a program drawn from the Codex Calixtinus, the priceless 12th-century manuscript recently stolen and recovered from the Cathedral of St. James in Compostela, Spain. Buy your tickets today! Concerts: Portland – 8pm, Friday,…
Cappella Romana Welcomes Marcel Pérès of Ensemble Organum
Mark Powell picking up Marcel Pérèsat the airport Cappella Romana opens its 21st Annual Season with MARCEL PÉRÈS–of France’s world-renowned ENSEMBLE ORGANUM–leading the Byzantine chant ensemble of Cappella Romana in a program drawn from the Codex Calixtinus, the priceless 12th-century manuscript recently stolen and recovered from the Cathedral of St. James in Compostela, Spain. In…
A little about the Codex Calixtinus
A little about the Codex Calixtinus: The Codex Calixtinus is an illuminated manuscript compiled by French scholar Aymeric Picaud between 1135 and 1139. The Codex has been held in the archives of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela since 1150, and was intended as an anthology for pilgrims following the “Way of St. James” to…
Countdown to Marcel Pérès!
The countdown has begun! To kickoff the count from 10 days until our Santiago de Compostela concert with Marcel Pérès, we’ve got a preview of the concert via Marcel and his Ensemble Organum: Buy your tickets today! Concerts: Portland – 8pm, Friday, November 16th, St. Mary’s CathedralSeattle – 8pm, Saturday, November 17th, St. James Cathedral
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