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Good Friday In Jerusalem Now Available!
Good Friday In Jerusalem Now Available for Purchase and Download Purchase Direct from Cappella Romana Amazon.com Amazon UK iTunes ArkivMusic Stream [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188154336″ params=”color=ff5500&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/190282564″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Good Friday In Jerusalem: Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Alexander Lingas, artistic director and soloist;
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Singing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland (A report)
Cappella Romana members John S. Boyer, David Krueger, Les Green, Mark Powell, John Michael Boyer, LeaAnne DenBeste, Catherine van der Salm, Christina Abdul-Karim, and Jo Routh sang the service of the Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland, Oregon, on October 5, 2008. Byzantine chant in English formed the basis for the service
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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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5-Star Blu-Ray Review for Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia
Blu-Ray.com gives our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Blu-Ray/CD a Five-Star Rating in a review by Jeffrey Kauffman: I’m fortunate to live in Portland, Oregon, where Cappella Romana is based, and I can tell you from personal experience their live concerts are often amazing, even if they’re not, as in this instance, absolutely drenched in
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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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Early Music America Reviews Good Friday in Jerusalem
Donald Rosenberg reviews our Good Friday In Jerusalem recording in Early Music America Magazine: “Here Cappella Romana travels back to the roots of Byzanitne chant to recreate a Good Friday service through the music of the 8th and 9th centuries. The recording shot to the top of Amazon and Billboard charts when released, and it
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Singer Spotlight: Kerry McCarthy
Our Singer Spotlight series continues with alto Kerry McCarthy! How did you first start performing with Cappella Romana? My first time singing with Cappella was in fall 1994, when I was a student at Reed College. They were doing a big concert of Tchaikovsky and Kastalsky. I loved it and I’ve been around ever since.
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The Fall of Constantinople — Program Notes
Greeks and Latins had lived uneasily together in the Eastern Mediterranean ever since the sack and occupation of Constantinople (1204–61) by crusader knights. During the 14th and 15th centuries, however, the shrunken Byzantine Empire and the remaining Western colonies were often forced to cooperate in desperate attempts to defend themselves against the Ottoman Turks. This
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Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople Program Notes
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople The second part of our program features music for Pentecost, the Sunday fifty days after Easter on which Christians commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The services for
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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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Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: More Relevant Than Ever
This week media outlets across the world thrust Hagia Sophia into the limelight, reporting the action by current authorities to clear the way for the UNESCO World Heritage Site to be changed from a museum to a mosque. Cappella Romana’s Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is more relevant than ever: to shine a light on Hagia
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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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