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Leitourgeia ka Qurbana review of Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals
Richard Barrett of the Leitourgeia ka Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist reviews Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals: “The compilation Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals is … a demonstration that you actually can just write gorgeouspsounding Western music for Orthodox texts… “There’s an awful lot to like about this recording; it’s a great sampling of…
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LIVE IN GREECE Preview
We’ve got a full preview of a track from our upcoming LIVE IN GREECE recording for you today. Take a listen to Frank Desby’s Apolytikion of the Holy Cross via SoundCloud: LIVE IN GREECE Track 7: Apolytikion of the Holy Cross Frank Desby (1922–92) provided much of the impetus in the mid-twentieth century for the…
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Limited Time LIVE IN GREECE Streaming Track – First Ode of the Canon
From now through Tuesday, August 14th when LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California is released, you can stream Track 15: First Ode of the Canon by Michael Adamis in its entirety via SoundCloud! Take a listen today! Pre-Order LIVE IN GREECE on Amazon.com! Unique on this recording as the only composition for women’s voices…
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Quick LIVE IN GREECE Review from Eugene Weekly
LIVE IN GREECE gets a quick feature/review on EugeneWeekly.com: “One splendid new disc arrived just too late to make my last column of CD reviews of new releases by Oregon musicians. The Portland-based choir Cappella Romana is not only one of the finest vocal ensembles in the West, it’s also renowned for being the world’s…
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In Communion Features Angelic Light as Recommended Reading
In Communion, a site of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, has published a 2012 list of “Recommended Reading” and included our recent release “Angelic Light.” “The famous line from the first Blues Brothers movie: AWe have both kinds of music”—in that case, Country and West-ern—could also apply to Capella Romana. Under the leadership of founder and…
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Oregon Days of Culture feature Cappella Romana Hagia Sophia Performance
Oregon Days of Culture and the Portland Tribune & Community Newspapers have a wonderful feature on the upcoming Stanford Residency concerts and the “Icons of Sound” project highlighting “The Sounds of Hagia Sophia.” Heavenly Experience: Vocal chamber ensemble Cappella Romana performs from Portland to Stanford to Greece “It is said that when the Slavic people…
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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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Cyber Week Sale Ends Tonight!
Our Cyber Monday, week-long Sale ends TONIGHT at Midnight! Get in on the savings while you still can! Purchase two or more CDs and get 50% off your entire order with promo code “2for1”! You can get a head start to your Christmas music listening by purchasing one of our Christmas CDs like Kontakion on…
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Ivan Moody on the Rachmaninoff Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Following three sold-out performances last season of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), this year Cappella Romana presents Rachmaninoff’s earlier sacred masterpiece, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1910). Composer (and friend of Cappella Romana) Fr. Ivan Moody, published some wonderful program notes for the Corydon Singers recording of this work, and we’ll quote some of…
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Cappella Romana Holy Week in Jerusalem Program Notes – Part One
Saturday, February 2nd, after their sold-out Bing Concert Hall debut, amid the natural acoustics of Memorial Church, Cappella Romana will perform music composed for 8th and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem (Part One) In the year 637 A.D. the orthodox Christian Patriarch…
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Cappella Romana Holy Week in Jerusalem Program Notes – Part Two
Saturday, February 2nd, the day after our (already sold-out) Bing Concert Hall debut, Cappella Romana will perform music composed for 8th and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher amid the natural acoustics of the Stanford University Memorial Church. Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem (Part Two) Stanford Memorial Church…
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Tomas Luis de Victoria – Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal
Cappella Romana performs the polyphonic motets of Tomás Luis de Victoria in the April concert series Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal. Read a little background on this influential Spanish Renaissance composer: Owen Rees – guest conductor & author “Victoria was the greatest Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also one of the finest European…
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