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Tudor Choir receives rave review
Tudor Choir’s performance in Portland was attended by over 550 people. Here is the first review to appear: On Northwest Reverb. Sunday, March 30, 2008Review: Tudor Choir reaches for the sublime in concert of early music The Tudor Choir gave an outstanding concert of sacred music from Tudor England and the Sistine Chapel on Saturday…
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Review of Toensing Kontakion in the Seattle PI
‘Kontakion’ reflects the old, new Full text of the article … The first half of the program was devoted to carols and hymns of all sizes and attitudes. Most were written in the past century, with texts in English and Greek. Although they may be familiar in Orthodox circles, they are not so known outside…
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Kontakion on the Nativity reviewed by a POP MUSIC CRITIC!
Check this out: http://localcut.wweek.com/2009/01/13/furniture-music-2-cappella-romana/ Furniture Music #2: Cappella Romana January 13th, 2009 [6:11PM] Posted by: Robert Ham A cappella music is probably as safe a place as any for me to start my year of classical immersion. We’ve all heard music like this—a precise, polyharmonic choir singing songs of devotion to God—in some form before.…
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Cappella Romana Remembers September 11 – Lament for the Fall of Constantinople
Cappella Romana remembers September 11th From the Seattle Post-Intelligncer in January 2002: Alexander Lingas, founder and music director of Cappella Romana, has a keen ear for music and its historical and cultural context. Over the past decade, that kind of approach has taken the small vocal ensemble, and its growing audience, over many centuries 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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Fanfare Magazine Reviews Benedict Sheehan’s Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
Alongside a must-read interview with Benedict Sheehan, Fanfare Magazine’s March/April 2021 Issue features THREE reviews of his Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom recording with the St. Tikhon Choir on Cappella Records: James A. Altena: “I own a goodly number of settings of the Liturgy by various composers—Chesnokov, Grechaninov, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Kastalsky, Rachmaninoff, Shvedov, Stoyanov, and…
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Fanfare Magazine Interviews Benedict Sheehan
Fanfare Magazine’s James A. Altena has a new must-read interview with Benedict Sheehan after the release of his Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom recording with the St. Tikhon Choir on Cappella Records: Benedict Sheehan is the artistic director of the Saint Tikhon Choir, at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Monastery in South Canaan, PA (in the…
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Bissera Pentcheva Interview on Hagia Sophia in Kathimerini
Greek news outlet Kathimerini has published a new interview with Stanford University’s Bissera Pencheva who has worked with Cappella Romana as part of our Hagia Sophia project and recording. Read the interview in the original Greek at Kathimerini.gr and see the translation below: What distinguishes Hagia Sofia from other churches and monuments of the Christian…
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Early Music America Reviews Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia
Karen Cook reviews our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia recording for Early Music America: “Thanks to the wonders of modern technology and painstaking work of two college professors, however, it is possible to imagine what a medieval Byzantine service might have sounded like. … The prolonged phrases flow over each other in layers and waves,…
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