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Toronto Early Music News Reviews Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
The Toronto Early Music News Winter 2014 issue has a new review of our Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium recording! “This music speaks to a higher self; its target is the divine and focuses the soul in direct union with God. One of its features is the luxurious usage of time. Time seems to be…
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Keeping Up with the Venetians — Part Two
Keeping Up With The Venetians Continued from Part One Program Notes for Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky Galuppi further exceeded his contractual duties by teaching composition to some of the Cappella singers. One such singer was the Ukrainian Dmitro (or more commonly Dmitry) Bortniansky. When Galuppi left St. Petersburg in 1769, he took…
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Alexander Lingas Talks Passion Week Cycle on the Orthodox Arts Journal
Alexander Lingas has a new article on the Orthodox Arts Journal on the re-discovery of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week Cycle, Op. 13! The article, “Passion Week, Opus 13 by Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946): The Recovery of a Neglected Musical Contribution to the Russian Religious Renaissance” traces the history of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the story…
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MusicWeb International Reviews Hymns of Kassianí
Dominy Clements reviews Hymns of Kassianí for MusicWeb International: “much to appreciate in this substantial recording of Kassianí’s music… Cappella Romana is a leading vocal ensemble that is best known for its performances of Byzantine chant, and you have the feeling that you are in safe hands in the way they bring Kassianí’s ancient manuscripts…
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Cappella Romana to Premiere “The Voice of Hagia Sophia”
This Saturday, June 6, at 6 pm (PDT), Cappella Romana will premiere the 24-minute documentary, The Voice of Hagia Sophia, about the project and “making of” Cappella Romana’s Billboard Chart-topping recording, The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia, on Facebook. The documentary includes interviews with Cappella Romana members John Boyer, Catherine van der Salm, Alexander Lingas,…
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Byzantine Cooking Resources
Coming this weekend by livestream — Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia Reimagined! For Saturday’s concert, consider cooking a Byzantine dish for before or after the livestream. Enjoy these select Byzantine cooking resources: What did Byzantine food taste like? (Getty Museum) Byzantine cuisine (Wikipedia) Select Byzantine and Byzantine-inspired Recipes godecookery.com And the excellent cookbook by Andrew…
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Preview Works on The Tudor Choir Program
Preview The Tudor Choir’s upcoming concerts with these recordings of works on the upcoming concert program: MARENZIO: Magnificat octavi toni a 8 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/156309986″ params=”color=ff5700&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] PALESTRINA: Magnificat a 8 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/92056198″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Cappella Romana presents a festive summer concert Saturday, 26 July 2014, at St. Mary’s Cathedral…
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Getty Museum Rehearsals at St. Sophia Cathedral
Have a look and listen to Cappella Romana’s rehearsal day at St. Sophia Cathedral in LA before the weekend’s Byzantine Chant performances at The Getty Museum: https://cappellaromana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Video-May-15-12-22-27-PM.mp4
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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/!
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Listen to LIVE IN GREECE on Spotify!
Still haven’t heard the new Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE recording? Well now you can stream it in its entirety via Spotify! Listen now: Order today via: Amazon.com Allegro Classics CappellaRomana.org
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Cappella Romana BOGO Recording Sale
Give the gift of music with Cappella Romana’s acclaimed recordings. With every CD you’ll receive full texts and translations, biographies, and program notes to deepen your understanding and enjoyment of the music. Now through December 16, buy one CD and get the second CD FREE! Offer Ends December 16, 2018 at 11:59pm – so ORDER…
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Fall Festival Sneak Peek
Our Sunday matinée performance at St. Matthew’s in Hillsboro will be presented as part of the church’s Fall Festival. Here’s a preview of Tchaikovsky’s All-Night Vigil on YouTube: Translation Hail, gladdening Light, of his pure glory poured, Who is the immortal Father, heavenly, blest, Holiest of holies, Jesus Christ our Lord! Now we are come…
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