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Release Day!!! Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California available in stores now!
Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California Recorded live on Paros, GreeceCR409 Alexander Lingas, Director Ancient Byzantine chants begin this 1,000-year journey from Constantinople to California, followed by musical encounters with Crusaders and Venetians, including Greek and Latin polyphony from Renaissance Crete. East meets West again at St. Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles,
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Choral Glory Featured in Portland Monthly
Upcoming Cappella Romana concert with the Portland Baroque Orchestra gets a wonderful feature in Portland Monthly, and highlights conductor Monica Huggett and Catherine van der Salm. “There was a moment during soprano Catherine van der Salm’s early 2011 performance of Bach’s The St. John Passion that was so beautiful, she started to choke up. The
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Gapplegate Classical-Modern Reviews LIVE IN GREECE
Grego Applegate Edwards Classical-Modern Music Review Blog features new Cappella Romana release LIVE IN GREECE, and ends with quite the statement: “This is music of endless fascination, performed with impeccable attention to detail. Cappella Romana live up to their reputation as the foremost representatives of the Byzantine choral tradition.” Read the full review on classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.ca
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Good Seats Still Available for Choral Glory
Good Seats are still available for Cappella Romana’s concert “Choral Glory” with the Portland Baroque Orchestra! PBO and Cappella Romana join forces again under the direction of Monica Huggett with masterpieces for orchestra and voices by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Don’t miss out on this glorious season opening. Get your tickets today! Choral Glory was
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The Oregonian Reviews Santiago de Compostela Concert
The reviews are in! James McQuillen of The Oregonian reviews our Santiago de Compostela concert with Marcel Pérès: “An iconoclastic musicologist with an intimate knowledge of a vast range of early liturgical song, Pérès joined Portland’s Cappella Romana at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Friday night for a concert that should rank among the ensemble’s many
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Tomas Luis de Victoria – Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal
Cappella Romana performs the polyphonic motets of Tomás Luis de Victoria in the April concert series Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal. Read a little background on this influential Spanish Renaissance composer: Owen Rees – guest conductor & author “Victoria was the greatest Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also one of the finest European
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Cappella Romana European Tour Goes To Greece
After stops in England and Germany, the Cappella Romana European Tour heads to Greece! Schedule: May 19 (Patras) Holy Metropolitan Church of the Annunciation Ιερός Μητροπολιτικός Ναός Ευαγγελιστρίας 20:00 May 20 (Athens) Master class at The American College of Greece Monday, 20 May 16:00 “Cotsen Hall” – The American School of Classical Studies “Cotsen Hall” –
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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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Looking Back at A Time For Life
As we look forward to our May 2014 performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time For Life with the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, have a look back at an Oregonian review of our world premiere concert: “During an hour of music, the eight excellent voices of Cappella Romana (sopranos DenBeste and Stephanie Kramer, altos Jo
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New Release — The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Now Available! The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Cappella Romana Tikey Zes Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. This highly original Liturgy, which Zes dedicated to Cappella Romana, bears the marks of a composer long engaged with the traditions of Orthodox worship. Cumulatively
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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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