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#7 Billboard Debut for Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week!
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Minnesota Public Radio Features Passion Week!
Classical MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) is featuring recordings for Holy Week, and Thursday will be broadcasting our Passion Week recording on Thursday, April 2 at 10am(Central)/8am (Pacific)! Bookmark www.classicalmpr.org today to stream the broadcast! The name of Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946) will be a new one to almost all music lovers. As this release from the…
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Watch the Passion Week Video
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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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Steinberg Passion Week Look & Listen
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Steinberg: Passion Week Pre-Release Party at ACDA
February 25-28, 2015 is the American Choral Directors Association Convention in Salt Lake City! As part of the celebrations, our new recording of Maximillian Steinberg’s Passion Week will be available for purchase nearly a month before its release date (March 24)! Find it at the Musica Russia booth, and during a read-along session of the…
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From the Maximilian Steinberg Recording Sessions
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Classical Voice North America Reviews Passion Week Premiere
Seattle critic, Philippa Kiraly, has a fantastic feature and review of our recent World Premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week in Classical Voice North America: “Sometimes it sounded stern or foreboding, sober or somber, at other times brighter and joyful, or hypnotic, peaceful, and uplifting, or solemn and reverential, even exalted in Great Saturday’s…
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The Wall Street Journal Reviews Passion Week!
The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to portend another dose of the ensemble’s usual hieratic Byzantine and Russian…
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Maximilian Steinberg, “Passion Week”, Op. 13 — Notes
Historians of Orthodox Christianity have charted the emergence of a ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’ out of the so-called ‘Silver Age’ of Russia, the culturally fruitful but politically turbulent decades immediately prior to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917. This movement encompassed a broad range of efforts aimed at various forms of spiritual, ecclesial, cultural, and national renewal…
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Cappella Romana Rehearses Passion Week!
Cappella Romana rehearses an excerpt from PASSION WEEK by Maximilian Steinberg, directed by Dr. Alexander Lingas. The final refrain from the 10th movement, “Arise, O God” “Voskrеsñí Bózhe, sudí zemlí, yáko tï naslédishï vo fséh yazítseh” “Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall have an inheritance among the nations.” From the Vespers of…
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Alexander Lingas Talks Passion Week Cycle on the Orthodox Arts Journal
Alexander Lingas has a new article on the Orthodox Arts Journal on the re-discovery of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week Cycle, Op. 13! The article, “Passion Week, Opus 13 by Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946): The Recovery of a Neglected Musical Contribution to the Russian Religious Renaissance” traces the history of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the story…

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