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Cyprus Recording Session Photos
A look at the first night of Cappella Romana’s Cyprus: Greek East & Latin West recording sessions: Hear it this season: Cyprus: Greek East & Latin West To this day, the island of Cyprus stands at a crossroads between East and West. Alexander Lingas leads Cappella Romana in an intrepid exploration of Cypriot music in
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Planet Hugill Reviews Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week
Robert Hugill has a new review for our “Remarkable re-discovery” of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week: “Musically it is very much in the same genre as Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil (Vespers), the chant in Steinberg’s work has similar recognisable outlines. Steinberg’s harmony is more classical…and the chants stand out more in Steinberg. …Quite romantic in texture,
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Cappella Romana To Perform Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Choir!
Guest Director Ivan Moody adds Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Choir to the program From Darkness to Light! “Rachmaninoff’s wonderful choir concerto is the perfect work to anchor this program. His music was both a culmination of a great tradition and a starting point for so much of what followed in Russia. In many ways it is,
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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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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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Boston & Chicago Tour — November 14-16
Cappella Romana travels to Boston TODAY (through the Arctic Blast!) and makes its Chicago debut on Sunday Keep up with the tour on Facebook & Twitter Boston On Nov. 14, The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture presents Cappella Romana in concert, as part of the Second Boston Byzantine Music Festival. Events also
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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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CityArts Reviews Seattle Fall of Constantinople
CityArts Magazine reviews Cappella Romana’s Seattle performance of The Fall of Constantinople: “In Cappella Romana’s latest program Friday night at St. Joseph Parish, “The Fall of Constantinople,” we heard some thoughts of the defenders in music of the era—from the Byzantine side in Greek, and the Catholic side in Latin. … the sound is hypnotic,
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Notes for the Utrecht OudeMuziek Festival!
Programme Notes for ‘The Fall of Constantinople’ Cappella Romana – Utrecht Early Music Festival 2014 The creation of a re-imagined ‘Holy Roman Empire’, an entity which centuries later would be ruled by the Hapsburgs, was initially the response of Frankish kings and a resurgent Papacy to the retreat of Roman imperial power to Eastern Mediterranean
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This Weekend — The Fall of Constantinople!
Fri. 29 August: Seattle Tickets Sat. 30 August: Portland Tickets Concerts at 8pm Pre-concert talks at 7pm Program Notes Preview on Oregon Live Review of the recording in Gramophone Buy the recording from CR, iTunes or Amazon Explore the musical legacy of Byzantium just before the ensemble’s European tour! This program has been performed in
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There is a Place in Cappella Romana For YOU
For nearly 30 years I have been associated with Cappella Romana, and I am so passionate about what Cappella Romana does that I have made it my life’s work. There is also a place in Cappella Romana for you. This transcendent, beautiful, soul-touching music would not be possible without your support. This month our $25,000
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Alexander Lingas Leads the Byzantine Chant Ensemble in Psalm 71
Details of King Charles’ Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey on May 6 have officially been published and provide the context in which Cappella Romana music director Alexander Lingas will lead the Byzantine Chant Ensemble in performance during the ceremony: The Presentation of Regalia Peers from non-Christian faiths and senior Anglican bishops present the regalia. During

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