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…
ClassicalNet: Passion Week is An Ethereal Experience
ClassicalNet‘s Brian Wigman says Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week is an example of why he’s “been a fan of Cappella Romana for a few years now”: “I’ve been a fan of Cappella Romana for a few years now, and they have thoroughly enriched our understanding of Orthodox choral music from all over the world. Director Alexander…
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…
The Choral Stream Recap
If you missed Friday’s Passion Week Choral Stream presented by American Public Media and Classical MPR, you can still get a look back at all the action thanks to the live conversations on Twitter: #SteinbergPassion Tweets You can also catch the interview with Passion Week producer, Steve Barnett, in “An Insider’s Perspective on Steinberg’s ‘Passion…
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…
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…
Audiophile Audition Gives Passion Week Five Stars
Audiophile Audition gives Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week a Five-Star review! “[Maximilian Steinberg’s] music is pretty much sunk in obscurity…Until now, that is. … His Op. 13 Passion Week is his seminal work in the genre, actually more a collection of pieces selected from various Holy Week services that could be used outside of the opus…
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”
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
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
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…
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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