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Gapplegate Classical-Modern Reviews LIVE IN GREECE
Grego Applegate Edwards Classical-Modern Music Review Blog features new Cappella Romana release LIVE IN GREECE, and ends with quite the statement: “This is music of endless fascination, performed with impeccable attention to detail. Cappella Romana live up to their reputation as the foremost representatives of the Byzantine choral tradition.” Read the full review on classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.ca…
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Good Seats Still Available for Choral Glory
Good Seats are still available for Cappella Romana’s concert “Choral Glory” with the Portland Baroque Orchestra! PBO and Cappella Romana join forces again under the direction of Monica Huggett with masterpieces for orchestra and voices by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Don’t miss out on this glorious season opening. Get your tickets today! Choral Glory was…
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Last Day for Taste of Byzantium Discount!
Today is the last day to register for the “A Taste of Byzantium and the Sounds of Hagia Sophia” concert at a discount! Register at $100/person today, or $125/person afterwards. Click here to register! Saturday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Presenting Stanford University’s Icons of Sound project, a Virtual Performance in 1000 A.D.…
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Coming Soon – Santiago De Compostela
We’re only a month away from the start of the 2012-2013 Season as Marcel Pérès makes his Northwest and Cappella Romana debut directing an all-male chant ensemble in a program of medieval latin hymnody for St. James, sung directly from facsimilies of the Codex Calixtinus. This is the medieval manuscript that was only recently recovered…
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Taste of Byzantium Sold Out!
Saturday’s fundraiser concert A Taste of Byzantium has officially sold out, so we wanted to let you know and give you a hearty THANK YOU! For those that are coming, we’re featuring some of the silent auction items on our Facebook Page, so make sure to check back all week! Here are links to a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Looking Back to January
As we get closer to our 2013 Rachmaninoff Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom concerts, we wanted to take a look back at our Rachmaninoff All Night Vigil performances from this January! Here’s a feature of our dress rehearsal on OPB: “With 26 voices including an augmented bass section to anchor Rachmaninoff’s dark, almost subterranean sound,…
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Get A Look Inside Bing Concert Hall
February 1st, Cappella Romana will perform in Stanford University’s new Bing Concert Hall which opens in January! Cappella Romana will perform the “From Constantinople to California” program amid acoustics electronically enhanced to simulate the lush resonances of the ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the Center…
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