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#GivingTuesday
After Two Days of Shopping, #GivingTuesday is a day to give back TODAY is #GivingTuesday! Giving Tuesday is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. It is a holiday designed to rival Black Friday and Cyber Monday: a day to focus on what really matters. Join the movement and
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Five Stars for Cyprus from Audiophile Audition!
Audiophile Audition‘s Steven Ritter gives Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating! “Hearing this Orthodox and Roman Catholic music side-by-side is quite enlightening. Saturate yourself in either for about an hour and then switch for another hour, and you’ll swear they are the most disparate genres ever. Listen to both, sometimes alternating
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Cappella Romana on King FM NW Focus
Seattle’s Classical King FM 98.1 will feature Cappella Romana recordings during their NW Focus program this week in the lead up to Friday night’s Epiphany performance at Seattle’s Blessed Sacrament Church: Broadcast Schedule: Monday, Dec. 28 Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Cappella Romana’s recording) at approximately 8:16pm Tuesday, Dec 29 Chrysaphes:
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Stirring. Meditative. Powerful.
Let yourself be swept away by the power of ancient chant for Epiphany New Year’s Weekend Epiphany: Medieval Byzantine & Old Roman Chant Cappella Romana’s specialist ensemble of Byzantine cantors perform Epiphany: a program of Medieval hymns and psalms for the feast of Epiphany, including examples sung directly from 11th-century manuscripts. The program was the
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Steinberg: Passion Week a Recording of the Year!
MusicWeb International has released their 2015 Recordings of the Year, and we’re happy to report that our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording has been named a Recording of the Year by two MusicWeb critics! “One of the big choral rediscoveries of recent years combined with a stunning performance and recording, Steinberg’s sublime and eloquently moving
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Medieval Cyprus Between East and West
Located at a strategic point in the Eastern Mediterranean close to the coasts of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and the Middle East, the island of Cyprus has been a site of commercial and cultural interchange since the dawn of civilization. Christianity came to the island with the apostles Paul and Barnabas, the latter of whom
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Good Friday In Jerusalem in Early Music Review
“Alexander Lingas, in collaboration with Ioannis Arvanitis, is fortunate in being able to reify his archival researches into Medieval Byzantine chant by means of Cappella Romana’s fine musical skills and their recording team. … we can rejoice that these rites are preserved from a Holy Land now surrounded by architectural, human and cultural destruction.” —Diana
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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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Arstlandia Interviews Ivan Moody Before From Darkness To Light
Arstlandia hosts a Q&A with From Darkness To Light guest conductor Ivan Moody and includes this preview of the performance: This coming weekend, May 16 and 17, classical choir Cappella Romana will bring star composer and conductor Ivan Moody to Portland to conduct From Darkness to Light, an intense program featuring the rarely-performed Choir Concerto
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AllMusic Features Steinberg: Passion Week
AllMusic critic James Manheim has a new review for our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording: “The whole story is told in the excellent notes here, but the music itself is the main attraction. The nearest comparison would be Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, but it is far from a knock-off. Steinberg makes less use of the characteristic
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MusicWeb International Reviews Good Friday In Jerusalem
MusicWeb International critic Garry Higginson recalls his own Holy Week in Jerusalem experience while listening to Cappella Romana’s new Good Friday in Jerusalem recording: “Jerusalem was filled with people of all nations, as befits a city of pilgrimage. Droves of superior-looking tourists who had come to gaze curiously on the rites of the Eastern Church
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Steinberg: Passion Week Pre-Release Party at ACDA
February 25-28, 2015 is the American Choral Directors Association Convention in Salt Lake City! As part of the celebrations, our new recording of Maximillian Steinberg’s Passion Week will be available for purchase nearly a month before its release date (March 24)! Find it at the Musica Russia booth, and during a read-along session of the
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