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Quick LIVE IN GREECE Review from Eugene Weekly
LIVE IN GREECE gets a quick feature/review on EugeneWeekly.com: “One splendid new disc arrived just too late to make my last column of CD reviews of new releases by Oregon musicians. The Portland-based choir Cappella Romana is not only one of the finest vocal ensembles in the West, it’s also renowned for being the world’s
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London Review
via the Londinoupolis Blog Our first review is in from our London Residency via Londinoupolis: “The concert, entitled “Desert and City: Medieval Byzantine Chant”, was an intriguing and beautiful performance of a collection of hymns from Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem and the Vespers of St. Catherine, transporting us to an ancient time, where
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Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is Out TODAY!
Amazon Apple Music Spotify YouTube Music Qobuz Primephonic ArkivMusic Cappella Romana Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: Medieval Byzantine Chant Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is the first vocal album in the world to be recorded entirely in live virtual acoustics. It brings together art history, music history, performance, and technology to re-create medieval sacred sound in
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Venice in the East is Available Today!
Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete & Cyprus is out now on all of your favorite music outlets – and currently a Spotify New Release Top Pick and Apple Music featured new album! Get it Today! Amazon Apple Music ArkivMusic Spotify YouTube Music Cappella Romana About Venice in the East: Rennaisance Crete & Cyprus This
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Christmas in Ukraine
Khrïstos razhdayetsia! Slavite yeho! Christ is born! Glorify Him! When Cappella Romana invited me to prepare this concert “Christmas in Ukraine,” a wealth of musical memories came into my imagination. Since I am of Ukrainian descent, I felt instant inspiration and also a sense of responsibility. How can I represent the many centuries of Ukraine’s sacred
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Cappella Romana and Third Angle New Music share historic downtown workspace
PORTLAND, OR— The sounds of music, from medieval chant to math rock, are ringing out from a single set of offices in the Gus J. Solomon U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Third Angle New Music is delighted to announce that it has established its new office in the top floor of the former courthouse, subleased
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Marcel Pérès Returns for Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Following his Cappella Romana début in 2012 leading powerful chants from Santiago de Compostela, international early music star Marcel Pérès from Paris directs the earliest known Mass setting by a single composer, Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), with chants for Candlemas. Widely considered an iconoclast in the early music movement, Medieval Latin chant specialist Marcel Pérès
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From The Desk of Mark Powell
Dear friend, Your very own Cappella Romana has had a very good 25th Anniversary year: three European tours (including visits to the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany), a week-long residency at Stanford University in the Bay Area with recording sessions of medieval chant from Hagia Sophia, the Arvo Pärt Festival, and the group’s most
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Venice in the North
Following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the peoples of Russia and Ukraine began to look to the West not only for trading partners, but also for political, intellectual and artistic models. The Westernization of northern Slavic societies rooted in Byzantine traditions of governance and religion accelerated during the tumultuous seventeenth century, which saw
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Cyprus Named a Recording of the Year
Order Now MusicWeb International critic Johan van Veen names our Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West a 2016 Recording of the Year! “Cappella Romana is an ensemble which specializes in early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West. This explains that the programme recorded here sounds very idiomatic. The singing is impressive
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Hagia Sophia: A Space In Between Heaven and Earth
Professor Bissera Pentcheva presents Hagia Sophia: A Space In Between Heaven and Earth at Reed College Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:45pm Eliot Hall 314 Free and open to the public More Information ** This event follows Cappella Romana’s residency with Dr. Pentcheva at Stanford, where the ensemble performed medieval Byzantine chant from Hagia Sophia
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