News | Jul. 27
Ece Temelkuran, Journaliste et essayiste: « Avec la transformation de la basilique Sainte-Sophie, Erdogan achève de créer une Turquie à sa main » La basilique « a toujours été la diversion politique favorite » du président turc, relève, dans une tribune au « Monde », la journaliste exilée. Il détourne ainsi l’attention des problèmes majeurs… Continue reading In Le Monde: Hagia Sophia: The Great Amplifier
News | Jul. 14
Greek news outlet Kathimerini has published a new interview with Stanford University’s Bissera Pencheva who has worked with Cappella Romana as part of our Hagia Sophia project and recording. Read the interview in the original Greek at Kathimerini.gr and see the translation below: What distinguishes Hagia Sofia from other churches and monuments of the Christian… Continue reading Bissera Pentcheva Interview on Hagia Sophia in Kathimerini
News | Jul. 13
This week media outlets across the world thrust Hagia Sophia into the limelight, reporting the action by current authorities to clear the way for the UNESCO World Heritage Site to be changed from a museum to a mosque. Cappella Romana’s Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is more relevant than ever: to shine a light on Hagia… Continue reading Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: More Relevant Than Ever
News | Apr. 28
Now by livestream — Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia Reimagined! Cappella Romana livestreams Part 1 of the triumphant November 2016 performance at Stanford University’s Bing Hall. This was the first time in the world that a full concert had been produced with the digital auralization of the acoustics of Hagia Sophia. For this concert, consider… Continue reading Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia at Bing Hall – Livestream
News | Apr. 23
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… Continue reading Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday
News | Apr. 16
Welcome to the third in a new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana, featuring hymns selected from the Byzantine services of Holy Thursday and Holy Friday. Next week I will be back with Easter music from the archives of Cappella Romana. Meanwhile, please remember that streaming services return very little to their… Continue reading Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 2
News | Apr. 9
Welcome to the second episode in this new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana. During this week and the next in 2020, Western and Eastern Christians are journeying through Holy Week – the devotionally intense period from Palm Sunday through Good Friday to Easter Sunday. This year instead of attending or, more… Continue reading Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 1
News | Apr. 2
Although the Coronavirus crisis is temporarily preventing our wonderful artists from gathering to sing for you, I will be creating a series of playlists 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… Continue reading Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: The Akáthistos & Great Lent
News | Mar. 3
Billboard Magazine announced today that the #1 Traditional Classical Album for the week of March 7, 2020 was our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia recording! Thank you to everyone who has purchased, downloaded, or streamed this important project! And if you haven’t listened to the NPR Weekend Edition broadcast about the album, listen here. Amazon… Continue reading Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Tops The Billboard Charts
News | Feb. 23
Sam Harnett spoke with NPR’s Scott Simon this Saturday (February 22, 2020) about our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia project and recording on NPR’s Weekend Edition! Listen on-demand now: Amazon Apple Music Spotify YouTube Music Qobuz Primephonic ArkivMusic Cappella Romana
News | Sep. 13
Our new Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete and Cyprus recording has debuted at #10 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums chart! Thank you to all of you who pre-ordered, purchased, streamed, and shared this recording! Get it Today! Amazon Apple Music ArkivMusic Spotify YouTube Music Cappella Romana
News | Apr. 26
Watch Cappella Romana performing the Christos anesti from the Faenza Codex during the Venice in the East recording sessions: April 27-29, 2018, Italy meets Greece in Venice in the East, a sonic exploration of the Greek Islands when they were ruled by the Venetian empire. Cappella Romana is reviving Renaissance music from Crete, celebrating the… Continue reading Venice in the East Recording Sessions Video
