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SunBreak Review of Venice in the North
“Russian music for most of us tends to be romantic, often orchestral, always rich; or else, as sung by Cappella Romana, chant sung in distinctive style, often monophonic, serious church music. Last Friday night’s concert at St. Mark’s Cathedral was a complete change from what we have come to expect from this group. … Baroque
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ClassicalNet Review of Angelic Light
We stumbled across this older review of our Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals compilation on the Classical review site, Classical.net, and wanted to share a few wonderful quotes from reviewer Robert Cummings: “Serenity, peace and an ecstatic religious sense permeate almost every number. … The Cappella Romana sing admirably throughout, capturing the Byzantine style
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Kastalsky Requiem: Program Notes
Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c.1650–c.1715) – Cherubic Hymn; Megalynarion Vasily Titov was one of two leading composers of Russian Baroque music, the other being Nikolai Diletsky (c. 1630–80). Titov’s life and work mark the mid-point of the process of Russia’s musical Westernization, which gained new momentum during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great (1689 –1725).
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Sun of Justice: A Two-Fold Offering – Part Two
With this two-fold offering of traditional Byzantine Music, we seek to give the listener two distinct yet complementary experiences: first, that of being in a traditional Orthodox church somewhere in the Middle East, wherein one choir sings in Greek and the other in Arabic; and second: that of being in a traditional Orthodox church in
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Cappella Romana’s 2015-2016 Season Now Online!
2015-2016 Season – 24th Annual Northwest Series Single tickets for individual concerts go on sale August 1st, 2015. Season Subscriptions available now. Seattle Concerts Portland Concerts Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil [toggle title=”Learn More”]Cappella Romana’s 24th Annual Season opens with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental All-Night Vigil (also known as the Vespers), in celebration of the 100th anniversary of
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Cappella Romana 2026–27 Season
chant encounters The 2026–27 Season october 16 & 17, 2026 NOVEMBER 13 & 14, 2026 DECEMBER 4 & 5, 2027 JANUARY 22 & 23, 2027 MARCH 5 & 6, 2027 MAY 14 & 15, 2027 ALL NIGHT VIGIL THE TUDOR CHOIR OLD SAINT NICK EPIPHANY KASSIA TONGUES OF FIRE For 35 years, Cappella Romana has
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Christmas With Cappella
Christmas With Cappella Music for the 12 Days of Christmas A Seattle Times Must-See Holiday Concert! Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Let your holiday spirit soar with Cappella Romana’s beloved Christmas concert, featuring selections of Richard Toensing’s moving Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ and music by Kassianí, the earliest female composer whose music survives. Plus
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Maximilian Steinberg, “Passion Week”, Op. 13 — Notes
Historians of Orthodox Christianity have charted the emergence of a ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’ out of the so-called ‘Silver Age’ of Russia, the culturally fruitful but politically turbulent decades immediately prior to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917. This movement encompassed a broad range of efforts aimed at various forms of spiritual, ecclesial, cultural, and national renewal
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Online Explorations
Language in American Orthodox Music: Liturgical and Pastoral Perspectives Please join us for this webinar hosted by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center and presented in co-operation with Cappella Romana. It has often been asserted that it is the tradition of the Orthodox Church to worship in the local language. Yet the historical reality has been far more complex, with
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OregonLive Review: Re-creation of 12th century vespers service is a milestone
By James McQuillen, Special to The Oregonian on November 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM, updated November 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM The sound of medieval chant prevalent in the modern imagination — limpid and ethereal, with barely a suggestion of rhythm or of the physical presence of the people who sing it — is a
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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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Peter Michaelides and The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom
Cappella Romana will be premiering a new work from Peter Michaelides during the Be Radiant, O Peoples! tour this coming weekend. So in preparation, we wanted to share this review from our 2006 release of Peter Michaelides: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom from AllMusic.com: “Cappella Romana’s Peter Michaelides: The Divine Liturgy of St.
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