Tag: Orthodox Arts Journal

  • 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…

  • Orthodox Arts Journal Review for Good Friday

    Orthodox Arts Journal Review for Good Friday

    The Orthodox Arts Journal asks “How can music be alive?” in On History and Tradition: A Review of Cappella Romana’s “Good Friday in Jerusalem”. “Good Friday in Jerusalem is no exception to the level of quality that audiences have come to expect from Cappella Romana’s recordings; the singing on the disc is at once rich,…

  • Meet Vladimir Morosan

    Meet Vladimir Morosan

    Meet our Passion Week, pre-concert lecturer, Vladimir Morosan courtesy of the Orthodox Arts Journal: Dr. Vladimir Morosan, Founder and President of Musica Russica, is one of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music. After completing his undergraduate degree in music at Occidental College, in Los Angeles,…

  • 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…