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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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Cyprus Recording Rehearsals
Enjoy some photos from our rehearsals as we prepare to record our Cyprus: Greek East & Latin West program this week: Also, enjoy a look back at our 2008 Cyprus rehearsals: Cyprus: Greek East & Latin West To this day, the island of Cyprus stands at a crossroads between East and West. Alexander Lingas leads…
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Steinberg Passion Week a “Landmark Recording”
The Orthodox Arts Journal‘s Benedict Sheehan gives Cappella Romana’s upcoming Maximilian Steinberg Passion Week an absolute rave: “Every so often a record comes along that changes the landscape of choral music.…The work itself is the sort of thing musicologists dream about: a treasure of inestimable musical value, hidden away in some attic or dusty library…
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Steinberg Passion Week Look & Listen
Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week — Behold, The Bridegroom Comes Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week LP A first listen to the Passion Week recording at Echo Audio in Portland: Pre-Order NOW —UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!
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Meet Stelios Kontakiotis
Stelios Kontakiotis, principal soloist Stelios Kontakiotis is protopsaltis (first chanter) of the Holy Temple of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on the sacred island of Tinos, Greece, one of the most prominent pilgrimage sites in Greece. Mr. Kontakiotis was born in Athens and grew up on the island of Amorgos (Cyclades-Greece). He began his…
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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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Meet Bogdan Djaković
Now in his 27th season directing the Choir of St. George’s Cathedral in Novi Sad, Serbia, Bogdan Djaković is one of the world’s leading experts in Serbian Orthodox Choral Music. Bogdan Djaković has established himself as an international director, leading performances in Italy, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden.…
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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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Photos from the Cappella Romana San Francisco Tour
A few highlights of our trip to sing for the PAOI Gala, honoring our friend Tikey Zes. We also enjoyed singing Tikey’s “Divine Liturgy” on Sunday morning, conducted by Tikey Zes himself.
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MusicWeb International Reviews A Time For Life
Brian Reinhart of MusicWeb International reviews the new Cappella Romana release, A Time For Life: “There can be no questioning Kyr’s skill as a composer. Just listen to the first five minutes, as singers enter one-by-one — there are only eight — to the accompaniment of a single solitary cello. Many writers would need half…
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