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Harmonia Early Music Features Good Friday in Jerusalem
Indiana Public Media’s Harmonia Early Music program features Good Friday In Jerusalem as a part of their “Music for Christian Holy Week” episode, and names it their Featured CD! Listen to the program and find information on all of the tracks at www.indianapublicmedia.org: http://wfiu.indiana.edu/podcasts/audio/harmonia/15/shows/150323-holy-week.mp3 Purchase the Good Friday In Jerusalem Recording: Direct from Cappella Romana…
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Passion Week Review
Sarah Bryan Miller says Passion Week helps to “fill the gap” in music for Holy Week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “In ‘Passion Week,’ which receives its world premiere recording here, that style is lushly traditional in the Russian Orthodox style. It’s paired with Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Chants for Holy Week.’ It’s all beautifully sung by Cappella…
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Audiophile Audition Gives Passion Week Five Stars
Audiophile Audition gives Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week a Five-Star review! “[Maximilian Steinberg’s] music is pretty much sunk in obscurity…Until now, that is. … His Op. 13 Passion Week is his seminal work in the genre, actually more a collection of pieces selected from various Holy Week services that could be used outside of the opus…
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After 35 years, founder Alexander Lingas retires as Music Director of celebrated vocal ensemble Cappella Romana
Founder and Music Director Alexander Lingas will move into a new role as Music Director Emeritus this spring, passing the baton to a new generation while redirecting his focus towards academic work. Dr. Lingas will conduct the final concerts of Cappella Romana’s current season on March 6 and 7, 2026, featuring Maximilian Steinberg’s extraordinary Passion…
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Handel’s Messiah — Notes by John Butt
Messiah The libretto that the irascible Charles Jennens sent to Handel at some point in the summer of 1741 was not in itself an extraordinary document within the Christian tradition. After all, the Gospels and Epistles already made ample reference to the way in which the New Testament was foretold in the Old, and this tradition…
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Oregon ArtsWatch: “For prayer, in performance”
Thank you to Daryl Browne and ArtsWatch for the fantastic preview of our Frank La Rocca: Requiem for the Forgotten concert series (March 28-30, 2025): “Two choirs will be on “display” at Cappella Romana’s upcoming concert series on March 28 (in Seattle), and March 29 and 30 (in Portland). The first choir, The Benedict Sixteen, is…
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Sacred Songs of Serbia — Program Notes: Part One
Sacred Songs of Serbia Serbian Chant and Church Choral Music Serbian chant is a type of monodic music which has remained in use as part of the Church’s liturgy from the time of Cyril and Methodius (the 9th century) to our day. With the granting of the independence to the Serbian Church in 13th century…
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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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Cappella Romana in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune has a great feature on the Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago where Cappella Romana will perform on November 16th, and says the music of Cappella Romana is already bringing the exhibit to life: “Evidence of Byzantine spiritual life dominates ‘Heaven and…
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Review from the Utrecht Early Music Festival
A wonderful new review of our concert at the Utrecht Early Music Festival by Marianne Driessen has been translated into English by our friend Maria Armstrong. “When I first started this blog, I really had made the resolution to not write about music. I do not know much about it, and my ear is not very…
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Acoustics of Hagia Sophia at the Ritz Carlton San Francisco
Cappella Romana is one of the featured artists to perform at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, in a gala on September 27 to raise funds for the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute at Berkeley. The team from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) will be providing virtual acoustics for the event,…
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Leitourgeia kai Qurbana reviews Arctic Light
Richard Barrett reviews the Cappella Romana Arctic Light recording on his Leitourgeia kai Qurbana blog: “Where there is an intriguing religious culture, one hopes there will also be an intriguing culture of religious music, and Fr. Ivan Moody, conducting Cappella Romana, makes the case for the music of the Orthodox Church of Finland on the…
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