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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday
Welcome to the fourth playlist from the archives of Cappella Romana, we turn to music celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, a feast called ‘Pascha’ in Greek and Slavonic. As a way of offering you my own seasonal greetings, I am concluding this week’s list with a choral setting of this hymn that…
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 2
Welcome to the third in a new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana, featuring hymns selected from the Byzantine services of Holy Thursday and Holy Friday. Next week I will be back with Easter music from the archives of Cappella Romana. Meanwhile, please remember that streaming services return very little to their…
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 1
Welcome to the second episode in this new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana. During this week and the next in 2020, Western and Eastern Christians are journeying through Holy Week – the devotionally intense period from Palm Sunday through Good Friday to Easter Sunday. This year instead of attending or, more…
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: The Akáthistos & Great Lent
Although the Coronavirus crisis is temporarily preventing our wonderful artists from gathering to sing for you, I will be creating a series of playlists featuring music taken not only from Cappella Romana’s commercially released CDs, but also from our archive of live recordings. This, my first playlist, features selections from two services of the Byzantine…
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Alexander Lingas Receives New Title
Cappella Romana artistic director Alexander Lingas has received the title of Archon Mousikodidaskalos (Music Teacher) of the Great Church of Christ on behalf of His All-Holiness, Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch. Dr. Lingas said “I am humbled to receive this title from His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. I am also…
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Alexander Lingas Interviewed at IBMF
Doxologia has published a new video “In Dialogue” with Alexander Lingas from Cappella Romana’s time at the Iași Byzantine Music Festival in 2017:
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Venice in the East
Venice In The East: April 27-29, 2018 Program Notes by Alexander Lingas From its emergence as a significant political entity in the sixth century under the rule of the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”) Empire to the dissolution of the Republic by Napoleon in 1797, the city of Venice remained closely tied to the Greek East. Following…
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Alexander Lingas and Arvo Pärt!
Many, many thanks to the gracious staff of the Arvo Pärt Centre for making a hastily arranged research trip turn out to be a visit full of human warmth, productive study, and spiritual reflection. Special thanks to Arvo and Nora Pärt, who gave selflessly of their time to enrich my understanding and experience. I leave…
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Alexander Lingas on BBC Radio 3
A clip from the BBC Radio 3 program “Private Passions” with celebrated historian Bettany Hughes (author of Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities), who is a great fan of Alexander Lingas and Cappella Romana. This clip features the ensemble singing the Hymn for Holy Wednesday by Kassia. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/330224554″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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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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The Russian Chant Revival
Major traditions of complex sacred music throughout Europe were shaped during the so-called “long nineteenth century” (the period of relative peace which lasted from the battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I) by movements to recover elements of early traditions for modern use. These efforts, like contemporary “back-to-roots” endeavors in non-musical arts…
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For Your Consideration
Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West Cappella Romana Alexander Lingas, artistic Director Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Athens, Utrecht, Regensburg, and in the US Northwest all…
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