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CityArts Reviews Seattle Rachmaninoff Concert
CityArts critic Philippa Kiraly reviews Cappella Romana’s Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil performance in Seattle: “This wasn’t a requiem, but the beautiful All-Night Vigil of Sergei Rachmaninoff was highly appropriate to the day (9/11), the occasion and the cathedral, and perfectly suited to Cappella Romana. … The Vigil is replete with colors, rhythms, textures and emotion, creating…
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Watch the Passion Week Video
Watch the new Passion Week Video to hear a track from the new album and see photos from the recording sessions! Order NOW! Buy The CD & The VINYL Today! Amazon.com iTunes
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Soma Christou Virtual Choir
Here is the Greek-American answer to Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, presenting the Communion Verse for Pascha (Easter) sung by members of Greek Orthodox church choirs from around the country, “virtually conducted” by the composer of this setting, Dr. Tikey Zes. Cappella Romana has long been a champion of Dr. Zes’ work, including his 1991 Divine…
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MusicWeb International Recommends Sheehan’s Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
MusicWeb International critic John Quinn gives the Recommended distinction to St. Tikhon Choir’s recording of Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom: “Sheehan’s music is very beautiful and inventive. … Sheehan’s Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is best heard as an uninterrupted sequence; such listening does full justice to his conception. However, if I were asked to…
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Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Sam Harnett spoke with NPR’s Scott Simon this Saturday (February 22, 2020) about our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia project and recording on NPR’s Weekend Edition! Listen on-demand now: Amazon Apple Music Spotify YouTube Music Qobuz Primephonic ArkivMusic Cappella Romana
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Venice in the East Debuts at in the Top 10 on the Billboard Chart!
Our new Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete and Cyprus recording has debuted at #10 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums chart! Thank you to all of you who pre-ordered, purchased, streamed, and shared this recording! Get it Today! Amazon Apple Music ArkivMusic Spotify YouTube Music Cappella Romana
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Cappella Romana to Receive $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
San Francisco, Calif.—National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $15,000 to Cappella Romana to support its ongoing concert series in…
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Northwest Focus Spotlight!
Seattle’s KING FM is highlighting Cappella Romana on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (5/6-5/9/2019). Date Time Music Monday, May 6 8:07pm Attinen: Saata, oi Kristus Tuesday, May 7 9:20pm Plousiadenos: Kontakion for St. Thomas Aquinas Wednesday, May 8 9:04pm Tragodistes: O Great and Most Sacred Pascha Thursday, May 9 8:02pm Zes: Introit to…
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Ave Maria: Program Notes
Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac were two Renaissance composers with two quite different characters, in music and in life. We know what Isaac’s signature looked like because he dutifully signed the account books as a musical servant of the Emperor Maximilian. We know what Josquin’s signature looked like because he carved it (not at…
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KING FM Northwest Focus features Lost Treasures of Armenia
In the lead up to our Lost Treasures of Armenia series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (1/14-17/2019). Date Time Music Monday, January 14 9:19pm Adamis: Radiant Cloud Tuesday, January 15 8:00pm Dufay: Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae Wed, January 16 9:19pm Zes: Cherubic Hymn…
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Christmas in Ukraine is “a breath of life”
Oregon ArtsWatch‘s Friderike Heuer reviewed the Portland performance of Christmas in Ukraine. “The superb vocal ensemble’s ‘Christmas in Ukraine’ was ancient and modern and a breath of life… Cappella Romana opened its 2018/19 season announcement with the words, “Prepare to be engaged, moved, and inspired.” Consider it done. You could add “an occasional “made breathless” by the sheer beauty of the…
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Oregon Arts Watch Review for “A Song of Creation”
Cappella Romana’s performance…was an electrifying, bristlingly intense superabundance of laser-beam monody and…florid counterpoint in the Eastern Orthodox style. … Here, the modern music was a vivid variety of sacred choral music by contemporary composers Matthew Arndt, John Michael Boyer, Alexander Khalil, Kurt Sander, Richard Toensing, and Tikey Zes. The six composers, according to the program,…
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