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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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Cappella Romana Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal Program Notes
Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal Our programme presents music appropriate to Easter by some of the foremost composers of the Iberian ‘golden age’, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Francisco Guerrero spent almost his entire career in the service of Seville Cathedral, as a singer, assistant chapelmaster, and then chapelmaster. Seville Cathedral
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Tage Alter Musik Festival Program
Here’s a look at the Cappella Romana Section of the Tage alter Musik Festival Program (in German): Click for larger images
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Free Season Preview!
Free Season Preview Concerts This Sunday, September 8! Season Previews at at Middle Eastern Festival, St. George Orthodox Church This Sunday, 8 September at 2:00pm and 4:30pm Selections from and related to Cappella Romana’s 2013-14 Season: Byzantine Chant Music of Orthodox Finland Russian Orthodox choral works Music for the Environment Also includes selections from the
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Take Me Back to Constantinople Auction Items Coming In!
Our Take Me Back to Constantinople Benefit Dinner and Auction is coming up soon (November 1st), and some MAJOR auction items are rolling in! Here’s a look at one of our featured items: One Week in this house on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece in Lindos! This donation comes courtesy of Guy
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On Tour: National Gallery of Art and Richmond, Virginia
The Byzantine Inheritance Saturday 26 October 2013, 7:00 pm — Richmond, VA SS. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral Sunday 27 October 2013, 6:30 pm — Washington, DC National Gallery of Art for the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections Cappella Romana, the world’s leading vocal ensemble for the broad exploration
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Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections
The Byzantine Inheritance performances are a part of the National Gallery of Art’s celebrations around the new “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections” exhibition. From the National Gallery of Art Website: In the first-ever exhibition of Byzantine art at the Gallery, some 170 works of art, many never before lent to the
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The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
The Divine Liturgy bearing the name of St. John Chrysostom (d. 407) is the form of the Eucharist celebrated most frequently in the modern Byzantine rite. Like the communion services of most other Christian traditions, it features two large sections: a service of the Word that climaxes with readings from the New Testament and concludes
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Leitourgeia ka Qurbana reviews The Divine Liturgy
Richard Barrett’s Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist blog has a thorough review of our new Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom recording: “Zes’ score is a remarkable piece of sacred choral composition on its own terms, and Cappella Romana is up to its usual high standards in terms of presentation of
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Fanfare Interviews Tikey Zes about his new Divine Liturgy Recording
New interview with Divine Liturgy composer, Tikey Zes by Ronald Grames of Fanfare Magazine: “If one composer stands at the forefront of Greek Orthodox music in America, it would likely be Dr. Tikey Zes…” … RG: So, what is it about music for the Greek Orthodox church that especially appeals to you? TZ: It is
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Audiophile Audition calls Tikey Zes: Divine Liturgy a “Recording of the Highest Quality”
In a four-star review, Audiophile Audition calls new release, The Divine Liturgy, “An important … recording of the highest quality.” “Cappella Romana is the foremost ensemble in the United States promoting the heritage of Byzantine chant, and one of the finest in the world as well. … It’s not Super Audio format but it is
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Throwback Thursday — Mystical Chant
A little “Throw Back Thursday” look our first all-chant concert that sold out in all venues — Mystical Chant From Old and New Rome!
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