Tag: Maximilian Steinberg

  • #7 Billboard Debut for Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week!

    #7 Billboard Debut for Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week!

    Thanks to all of you who pre-ordered and purchased during the first week of the release, Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week debuted at #7 on the Traditional Classical Billboard Charts! Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!

  • Minnesota Public Radio Features Passion Week!

    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…

  • Watch the Passion Week Video

    Watch the Passion Week Video

    Watch the new Passion Week Video to hear a track from the new album and see photos from the recording sessions! Order NOW! Buy The CD & The VINYL Today! Amazon.com iTunes

  • Steinberg Passion Week a “Landmark Recording”

    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…

  • Steinberg Passion Week Look & Listen

    Steinberg Passion Week Look & Listen

    Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week — Behold, The Bridegroom Comes Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week LP A first listen to the Passion Week recording at Echo Audio in Portland: Pre-Order NOW —UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!

  • Steinberg: Passion Week Pre-Release Party at ACDA

    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…

  • From the Maximilian Steinberg Recording Sessions

    From the Maximilian Steinberg Recording Sessions

    Listen to a performance of Се, Жених грядет в полунощи (Behold, the Bridegroom cometh at Midnight) from the Maximilian Steinberg recording sessions at Stephan Roman Catholic Church: —UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!

  • Classical Voice North America Reviews Passion Week Premiere

    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…

  • The Wall Street Journal Reviews Passion Week!

    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…

  • 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…

  • Cappella Romana Rehearses Passion Week!

    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…

  • Alexander Lingas Talks Passion Week Cycle on the Orthodox Arts Journal

    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…