Hymns of Kassianí is now available on all your favorite digital outlets – and it’s a hit! See it in Apple Music’s Featured New Albums and Featured Early Music Albums, as a Top (and Listening Tipp) release on HighResAudio.com, a top ProStudioMasters Classical release and the #1 New Opera and Vocal release on Amazon! […]
[…] on Early Russian Chants ‘Lift up your gates’ (‘Attolite portas’ / ‘Ἄρατε πύλας’) according to the Latin rite of Venice and the Byzantine rite of Cyprus (15th/16th -c.) from Venice in the East Premiere performance at the Utrecht Early Music Festival (September 2016): And Now available on Cappella Romana 419–CD: Tikey Zes (b. 1927), […]
Cappella Records “continues to turn out sensational recordings that are state -of–the-art in sound quality” —Audiophile Audition Full Catalog The commitments of all involved in the music is palpable and moving… –James Manheim AllMusic The heartfelt nature of much of this music is not to be denied. The music…is very fine: sensitive to the […]
[…] the Liturgy. Everything comes together there. Everything springs from there. And in Orthodoxy the Liturgy is so much about beauty—the beauty of holiness, the beauty of humanity freed from all things that enslave us, the beauty of God. So I guess I would say that my commitment to Orthodoxy is really a commitment to […]
[…] of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453, inspiring the two poignant laments sung here that give Greek and Latin perspectives on the end of a 1,000 -year–old empire. This recording features Cappella Romana’s most in–demand program, of Byzantine Chant and Polyphony c. 1453 and motets by Guillaume Dufay Directed by Alexander Lingas.
[…] and using it to eradicate the legacy of Kemal Atatürk. The Turkish people stand before a difficult choice and they have to make this decision under oppression of free speech and freedom. If Erdogan finally turns Hagia Sofia into a mosque, would that signify a more firm distancing of Turkey from Europe and the West, a […]
[…] Boyer and John El Massih join the Ancient Faith Radio podcast to talk about the debut PRÓTO release, Sun of Justice! Listen and subscribe at AncientFaith.com http://audio.ancientfaith.com/interviews/afp_2017 -12–06.mp3 Order Now Sun of Justice: Byzantine Chant for Christmas in Greek, Arabic, and English Cappella Romana Media combines passion with scholarship in its exploration of early […]
“The harmonies are lush and dark in Russian style, though periodically the shadows disperse as in a cloud -break and the sound brightens. The effect over the whole hymn is of a slow revelation of light and warmth over an ancient musical ground.” (Willamette Week) “Something new, substantial, and profound” (Sunday Oregonian) Standing Room Only […]
The New York Times has a new article featuring our Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia Re -Imagined project and Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia recording! See the article, filled with interviews with our project partners from Stanford and our own Alexander Lingas on NYTimes.com: “The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia,” an album that brings […]
There is such sonic beauty and musical complexity in every track that layers and layers of harmony just keep pouring out into the listening space… one listen to this disc and you will realize the spirituality in all of humanity.
[…] composer, Benedict Sheehan and featuring Michael Hawes, Timothy Parsons, Jason Thoms, and The Saint Tikhon Choir for the Best Choral Performance. Hear this GRAMMY®-nominated work LIVE in Seattle, Portland, and Lake Oswego December 3 -5, conducted by the GRAMMY®-nominated composer/conductor Benedict Sheehan! In–person in the Northwest, and beginning December 10, video-on-demand worldwide. More information here. “The vision of Cappella Records is to […]
[…] featuring music taken not only from Cappella Romana’s commercially released CDs, but also from our archive of live recordings. This, my first playlist, features selections from two services of the Byzantine tradition of worship for the penitential season of Great Lent. Thanks to the generous support of people like you, we will soon be […]
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