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Keeping Up with the Venetians — Part One
Keeping Up with the Venetians Program Notes for Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky The islands in the Venetian lagoon, which by the 8th century had banded together to ally themselves with the Empire of the Romans governed from Constantinople (Byzantium), quickly became one of the inhabited world’s great centers of power and wealth.
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: The Akáthistos & Great Lent
Although the Coronavirus crisis is temporarily preventing our wonderful artists from gathering to sing for you, I will be creating a series of playlists featuring music taken not only from Cappella Romana’s commercially released CDs, but also from our archive of live recordings. This, my first playlist, features selections from two services of the Byzantine
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Artslandia Interviews Alexander Lingas
Listen to Artslandia’s Susannah Mars interview with Alexander Lingas about our 25th Anniversary and this weekend’s New Mystics program on “Adventures in Artslandia”: http://artslandia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Dr.-Lingas.mp3 New Mystics From East & West Our season closes with a program of music by two important modern voices: the Greek Orthodox composer Michael Adamis and Scottish Catholic James MacMillan. The
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Looking Back on Arctic Light
As 2014 comes to a close, we look back on our Arctic Light concert and February CD release: Leitourgeia kai Qurbana Review Fanfare Magazine Interview Fanfare Magazine Review Video from the Arctic Light Concert: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132912947″ params=”color=a02d2d&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/128392841″ params=”color=a02d2d&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
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Tickets going fast for ARCTIC LIGHT
There are still a few of the best seats still available for the concerts of Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music, but they are selling quickly. Order your tickets to ARCTIC LIGHT today at Brown Paper Tickets, 800-838-3006, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com. More information about Arctic Light.
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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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Mark Powell Talks LIVE IN GREECE
Cappella Romana Executive Director, Mark Powell, joined the Everyday Opera Network’s “New Classical Order” podcast to talk about the contemporary works on LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California. Click to listen to the podcast on EverydayOpera.com. Or download the podcast in iTunes Purchase Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California: Amazon.com Allegro
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American Record Guide Review for Cyprus
Buy Now “Alexander Lingas is one of today’s leading experts on Byzantine music, but he has also developed a vocal group, the Cappella Romana, that has been building an impressive catalog of recordings ranging through the span of Greek Orthodox music, including contemporaneous practice both abroad and in the USA. The present program is an
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Eight Reasons to Subscribe!
Ever wondered why a subscription series to the Cappella Romana season would be beneficial? Here are EIGHT reasons to subscribe to the 24th Annual Northwest Series: Up to 25% off single ticket prices First choice of the best seats—available now, before tickets go on sale to the public 20% off ALL Cappella Romana CDs Bring
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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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Meet Owen Rees’s ensemble Contrapunctus
Meet upcoming guest conductor Owen Rees’s ensemble Contrapunctus: Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, Contrapunctus presents music by the best known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Contrapunctus grew from the vocal ensemble A Capella Portuguesa, in recognition of the group’s broadening repertoire, and its dedication to the music of composers from various nations including
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LIVE IN GREECE: First Ode of the Canon Video
Music: First Ode of the Canon (From the Great Supplicatory Service to the Mother of God)Composer: Michael AdamisArtists: Cappella RomanaPerformed in the 6th-century baptistery of the Church of 100 Doors (The Ekatontapiliani on the Island of Paros) Download in iTunes Buy this recording from Amazon June 15-16 Cappella Romana Presents — Live in Greece: From Constantinople
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