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Steinberg: Passion Week Pre-Release Party at ACDA
February 25-28, 2015 is the American Choral Directors Association Convention in Salt Lake City! As part of the celebrations, our new recording of Maximillian Steinberg’s Passion Week will be available for purchase nearly a month before its release date (March 24)! Find it at the Musica Russia booth, and during a read-along session of the…
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Save the Date — #GivingTuesday
SAVE THE DATE! After Two Days of Shopping, #GivingTuesday is a day to give back December 2nd, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. Make a gift to Cappella Romana by December 2nd. It is a holiday designed to…
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Memory Eternal: Father Ivan Moody
Cappella Romana’s March 8-10 Concert Series, In You, O Woman Full of Grace, is performed in memory of our dear friend, Archpriest Ivan Moody (11 June 1964–18 January 2024). The performance will also feature the premiere of Robert Kyr’s “Memory eternal, in remembrance of Fr. Ivan Moody”. May his memory be eternal. With faith in…
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Pre concert speakers
Pre-Concert Talks on CYPRUS | Two speakers: Dr. Harry Anastasiou (Portland); Dr. Alexander Lingas (Seattle) Talks are at 7:00pm, prior to the concerts PORTLAND: Cyprus: a tapestry of culturesBy Dr. Harry Anastasiou Dr. Harry Anastasiou will deliver a presentation focusing on the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus from the perspective of its rich and complex history,…
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Pre-Order Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia TODAY!
Cappella Romana’s highly anticipated recording, Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: Medieval Byzantine Chant, is coming out on November 29! Pre-order your copy today, and help put this record on the Billboard Classical Charts. You can also add the recording to your Wishlist, and make sure to share it with your friends! Pre-Order and Help Put…
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Venice in the East
Venice In The East: April 27-29, 2018 Program Notes by Alexander Lingas From its emergence as a significant political entity in the sixth century under the rule of the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”) Empire to the dissolution of the Republic by Napoleon in 1797, the city of Venice remained closely tied to the Greek East. Following…
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Venice in the North
Following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the peoples of Russia and Ukraine began to look to the West not only for trading partners, but also for political, intellectual and artistic models. The Westernization of northern Slavic societies rooted in Byzantine traditions of governance and religion accelerated during the tumultuous seventeenth century, which saw…
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Cyprus Named a Recording of the Year
Order Now MusicWeb International critic Johan van Veen names our Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West a 2016 Recording of the Year! “Cappella Romana is an ensemble which specializes in early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West. This explains that the programme recorded here sounds very idiomatic. The singing is impressive…
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Gramophone Magazine Names Steinberg: Passion Week An Editor’s Choice!
Gramophone Magazine names our new Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording an August Editor’s Choice! “This important and exciting release from the Portland, Oregon-based 26-strong chamber choir is a notable successor to their ‘Good Friday in Jerusalem’ disc (5/15). … This recording closely followed what is believed to have been the premiere complete performance by these…
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Ivan Moody To Give Pre-Concert Lecture
Pre-Concert Talks: Meet Ivan Moody One hour prior to each concert, guest director Ivan Moody will present a brief talk on the program, and will be available to sign his recent book and CDs (a selection will be available for purchase). Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody is one of the world’s leading scholars on Russian composer…
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Passion Week a MusicWeb Recording of the Month
MusicWeb International critic John Quinn names our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week a RECORDING OF THE MONTH! “Passion Week is one of the finest and most moving Orthodox settings that I’ve encountered and I’ve been excited by getting to know it. It’s particularly pleasing that this music should receive its first recording from such a fine…
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AllMusic Reviews Good Friday In Jerusalem
AllMusic.com’s James Manheim has a new review for our Good Friday In Jerusalem release! “It takes a good deal of scholarly effort to reconstruct a program like this from manuscripts in various places (some are Armenian) and at various levels of notational detail. The result, though, is spectacular. The chants were sung (if this reconstruction…
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