“Live In Greece” is getting closer!
Upcoming release Live in Greece has made it to the factory stage. So keep on the lookout as we inch ever-closer to release day! Check out a video from the Greek tour: And make sure to watch this video and more on the new Cappella Romana YouTube Channel!
Image Journal reviews Angelic Light
ImageJournal.org’s Image Update features a great new review of Cappella Romana’s new compilation Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals. Read an expert of the review right here, and then find the link to the full review on ImageJournal.org: “…The great news is that our local musical gem is recording music that can be heard anywhere…
Be Radiant, O Peoples!
Working under Muslim rule in and around Jerusalem during the 8th century AD, St. John of Damascus—defender of icons, theologian, poet and musician—composed a radiant hymn for Easter Sunday morning, his Paschal Canon. Over the centuries his joyful verses praising the Resurrection of Christ have been adapted to countless languages and musical styles across a…
Cappella Romana to be featured on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat
Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 10th! Cappella Romana will be featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat at 8pm (PDT). Take a look at a previous appearance by the ensemble on OPB: For more information visit http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/!
Fall of Constantinople Reviewed in Gramophone
The CD of Cappella Romana’s most popular and critically acclaimed program, The Fall of Constantinople, has received a review in the April 2009 edition of Gramophone magazine. [Link to Cappella Romana’s CD Store] The review hasn’t yet appeared in the Gramophone online reviews, but do find it in print at your local music or magazine…
Review of the Concord Ensemble
The Concord Ensemble’s February 28 concert has been reviewed on Portland’s Classical Music Blog, Northwest Reverb. Click here to join the grass-roots campaign to support Cappella Romana’s guest presentations (the gift amount doesn’t matter; like Obama’s campaign, we are looking for high participation with any size gift!)
Events at City University London
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Louise Gordon, Concerts Manager, +44 (0) 20 7040 8271, louise.gordon.1@city.ac.uk City University Brings ‘Voices of Byzantium’ to London ‘robust and intriguing music’—The Washington Post, 2 DEC. 06‘sung with such strength and commitment’ —Los Angeles Times, 12 DEC. 06 London. [12 February 2009] — In March 2009, the Department of Music at City…
Program for the Concord Ensemble
Music for Holy Week from the New World I.Vexilla RegisGaspar Fernandes after Rodrigo de Ceballos(Portugal, ca.1565-ca. 1629) and (Spain, c.1525-1581) respectively Memento Mei DeusHernando Franco(Guatemala and Mexico, 1532-1585)Peccantem me quotidie II. Lamentatio Hieremiae ProphetaeFrancisco Lopéz y Capillas(b. Mexico City, c. 1605-8; d. 1674) III.MissaAnonymous(Brazil, 16th c.) Kyrie Sanctus (Benedictus from T.L. de Victoria’s Missa Quarti…
Kontakion on the Nativity reviewed by a POP MUSIC CRITIC!
Check this out: http://localcut.wweek.com/2009/01/13/furniture-music-2-cappella-romana/ Furniture Music #2: Cappella Romana January 13th, 2009 [6:11PM] Posted by: Robert Ham A cappella music is probably as safe a place as any for me to start my year of classical immersion. We’ve all heard music like this—a precise, polyharmonic choir singing songs of devotion to God—in some form before.…
Review of Toensing Kontakion in the Seattle PI
‘Kontakion’ reflects the old, new Full text of the article … The first half of the program was devoted to carols and hymns of all sizes and attitudes. Most were written in the past century, with texts in English and Greek. Although they may be familiar in Orthodox circles, they are not so known outside…
Toensing Kontakion preview in the Seattle PI
Full text of the article Toensing’s ‘Kontakion’ gets local debut By R.M. CAMPBELLP-I MUSIC CRITIC From its first days in the early 1990s, Cappella Romana has cut a long, deep swath through music: from the Byzantine empire that ended in 1453 and its Slavic descendants to the modern world. There are other vocal groups in…
Receive “Byzantium 300-1453” FREE when you buy 2 or more CDs
Your FREE gift with 2 or more With your order of 2 or more CDs, we will send you a FREE GIFT: a copy of our latest title, “Byzantium: 330-1453,” a compilation of Cappella’s “Greatest Hits” of Byzantine music. CDs by Cappella Romana make great gifts. Choose from among our growing discography, from our latest…
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