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Planet Hugill Reviews Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week
Robert Hugill has a new review for our “Remarkable re-discovery” of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week: “Musically it is very much in the same genre as Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil (Vespers), the chant in Steinberg’s work has similar recognisable outlines. Steinberg’s harmony is more classical…and the chants stand out more in Steinberg. …Quite romantic in texture,
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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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Eight Reasons to Subscribe!
Ever wondered why a subscription series to the Cappella Romana season would be beneficial? Here are EIGHT reasons to subscribe to the 24th Annual Northwest Series: Up to 25% off single ticket prices First choice of the best seats—available now, before tickets go on sale to the public 20% off ALL Cappella Romana CDs Bring
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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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Passion Week a MusicWeb Recording of the Month
MusicWeb International critic John Quinn names our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week a RECORDING OF THE MONTH! “Passion Week is one of the finest and most moving Orthodox settings that I’ve encountered and I’ve been excited by getting to know it. It’s particularly pleasing that this music should receive its first recording from such a fine
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Passion Week Review
Sarah Bryan Miller says Passion Week helps to “fill the gap” in music for Holy Week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “In ‘Passion Week,’ which receives its world premiere recording here, that style is lushly traditional in the Russian Orthodox style. It’s paired with Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Chants for Holy Week.’ It’s all beautifully sung by Cappella
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Steinberg Passion Week a “Landmark Recording”
The Orthodox Arts Journal‘s Benedict Sheehan gives Cappella Romana’s upcoming Maximilian Steinberg Passion Week an absolute rave: “Every so often a record comes along that changes the landscape of choral music.…The work itself is the sort of thing musicologists dream about: a treasure of inestimable musical value, hidden away in some attic or dusty library
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Audiophile Audition Five Star Review for Good Friday In Jerusalem!
Audiophile Audition‘s Steven Ritter gives five star to the new Cappella Romana Good Friday In Jerusalem release! “This is the all-male version of Cappella Romana, and Alexander Lingas has his Portland-based ensemble going from strength to strength, perfectly judged balances among the melodists and those singing the ison, or lower drone notes, and executing these
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Celebrate Dr. Alexander Lingas & Cappella Romana’s 35th Anniversary
Cappella Romana will hold two receptions around the March concerts of Steinberg’s Passion Week, celebrating Dr. Lingas and his many achievements while also marking Cappella Romana’s 35th anniversary: Seattle: A pre-concert reception will take place on Friday, March 6, 2026 at 6:30pm prior to the concert at 7:30pm at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. Portland: A post-concert reception will
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Mass Appeal – Living Traditions
Mass Appeal SEATTLE Fri 24 Oct 2O25, 7:3O PMSt. Mark’s CathedralCapitol Hill, Seattle PORTLAND Sun 26 Oct 2O25, 2:OO PMSt. Mary’s CathedralNorthwest Portland It was 2018 when David Hattner first proposed pairing Bruckner’s Mass in E minor with Stravinsky’s Mass in a project with Cappella Romana and Portland Youth Philharmonic, and I immediately recognized the
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San Francisco 2O25-26 Series
San Francisco 2025-26 Series Christmas With Cappella Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Sun 4 Jan 2O26, 3:OO PM Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox999 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco Let your holiday spirit soar with Cappella Romana’s beloved Christmas concert, featuring selections of Richard Toensing’s moving Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ and music by Kassianí, the earliest female
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