Tag: Tikey Zes

  • Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday

    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…

  • KING FM Northwest Focus features Heaven and Earth: The Song of Creation

    KING FM Northwest Focus features Heaven and Earth: The Song of Creation

    In the lead up to our Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program on Wednesday and Thursday of this week (10/10-11/2018). Date Time Music Wednesday, October 10 9:30pm Tikey Zes: Cherubic Hymn (from The Divine Liturgy)   Thursday, October 11 8:29pm…

  • Echoes of the Renaissance Photos

    Echoes of the Renaissance Photos

  • Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes

    Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes

    In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic…

  • Ockeghem Missa Mimi

    Ockeghem Missa Mimi

    Cappella Romana will perform the Missa Mimi by Johannes Ockeghem alongside excerpts from The Divine Liturgy by Tikey Zes in this weekend’s “Echoes of the Renaissance” concerts. Here, Dr. Tikey Zes conducts the Berkeley Chamber Singers in the Ockeghem Missa Mimi in a 1964 recording, likely the first recording ever made of this remarkable work.…

  • Photos from the Cappella Romana San Francisco Tour

    Photos from the Cappella Romana San Francisco Tour

    A few highlights of our trip to sing for the PAOI Gala, honoring our friend Tikey Zes. We also enjoyed singing Tikey’s “Divine Liturgy” on Sunday morning, conducted by Tikey Zes himself.

  • Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy in San Jose

    Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy in San Jose

    Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, San Jose, CA Sunday, September 28, 10:00am The Divine Liturgy, with music composed by Dr. Tikey Zes (as recorded by Cappella Romana) Under the direction of the composer, Dr. Tikey Zes Following the fundraising event for the PAOI in San Francisco on Saturday night, Cappella Romana will sing the Divine…

  • Classical Net Reviews Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy

    Classical Net Reviews Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy

    Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman with a fantastic review for our Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom recording: “Led by two Greek Orthodox clergy, this new look at The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is nothing short of ravishing. The beautifully recorded sound allows you to hear just how good these singers…

  • Soma Christou Virtual Choir

    Here is the Greek-American answer to Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, presenting the Communion Verse for Pascha (Easter) sung by members of Greek Orthodox church choirs from around the country, “virtually conducted” by the composer of this setting, Dr. Tikey Zes. Cappella Romana has long been a champion of Dr. Zes’ work, including his 1991 Divine…

  • Audiophile Audition calls Tikey Zes: Divine Liturgy a “Recording of the Highest Quality”

    Audiophile Audition calls Tikey Zes: Divine Liturgy a “Recording of the Highest Quality”

    In a four-star review, Audiophile Audition calls new release, The Divine Liturgy, “An important … recording of the highest quality.” “Cappella Romana is the foremost ensemble in the United States promoting the heritage of Byzantine chant, and one of the finest in the world as well. … It’s not Super Audio format but it is…

  • Fanfare Interviews Tikey Zes about his new Divine Liturgy Recording

    Fanfare Interviews Tikey Zes about his new Divine Liturgy Recording

    New interview with Divine Liturgy composer, Tikey Zes by Ronald Grames of Fanfare Magazine: “If one composer stands at the forefront of Greek Orthodox music in America, it would likely be Dr. Tikey Zes…” … RG: So, what is it about music for the Greek Orthodox church that especially appeals to you? TZ: It is…

  • Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy — Now Available for Download!

    Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy — Now Available for Download!

    You’ve been asking for it, and we’re happy to announce that our Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom recording is now available for download and streaming!

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