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 Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: Medieval Byzantine Chant
A clip from the BBC Radio 3 program “Private Passions” with celebrated historian Bettany Hughes (author of Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities), who is a great fan of Alexander Lingas and Cappella Romana. This clip features the ensemble singing the Hymn for Holy Wednesday by Kassia.
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[…] of supreme artistry to cherish, heed, and enjoy. ” –Linda Holt, ConcertoNet “a moving litany of rarified and heightened choral expression… perfection in…each of these beautiful works” —Grego Applegate -Edwards, Classical–Modern Music Review “distinct from others of Pärt’s music” –David Salazar, Opera Wire “saying that the Cappella Romana presentation of Pärt’s Odes of Repentance seems an ideal merger […]
[…] Ashgate), 311–58. Lingas, Alexander (2007), ‘How Musical was the “Sung Office”? Some Observations on the Ethos of the Byzantine Cathedral Rite’, in Ivan Moody and Maria Takala -Rozsczenko (eds.), The Traditions of Orthodox Music. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Joensuu, Finland 13–19 June 2005 (Joensuu), 217–34. Lingas, Alexander (1997), […]
[…] RG: So, what is it about music for the Greek Orthodox church that especially appeals to you? TZ: It is the distinctively beautiful melodies of the post -Byzantine chant of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the harmonizations and arrangements/compositions that can be made from them. … RG: This 1991/1996 Liturgy is Tikey […]
[…] Romana has continued to perform Pärt’s music to the present day, including the program on this recording in British Columbia in 2009 and at Cappella Romana’s week -long, sold–out Arvo Pärt Festival in 2017. This recording is distinct from others of Pärt’s music, presenting a selection of his Orthodox works as a prayer service […]
Listen to a performance of Се, Жених грядет в полунощи (Behold, the Bridegroom cometh at Midnight) from the Maximilian Steinberg recording sessions at Stephan Roman Catholic Church: —UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!
[…] music for Good Friday in Jerusalem THIS WEEKEND. Directed by Alexander Lingas featuring solo psaltis Stelios Kontakiotis. This film features the performance at London’s oldest church, St -Bartholomew–the–Great in the City of London. Pre–Order Good Friday in Jerusalem on Amazon Today! Good Friday in Jerusalem — Portland & Seattle Hear Medieval Byzantine chant, the […]
[…] music comes from the USA, from the pen of Frank La Rocca – a Mass composed with the aim of incorporating references and inspirations from the Spanish -speaking Catholic population of the Americas. Drawing on celebrations and songs from Mexican-American festival customs, as well as the native Nahuatl language of Central America – but […]
Portland Monthly Magazine has published a list of Portland arts groups that Portlanders might take for granted, but are “beloved around the world,” and Cappella Romana is included in the list of five artists and ensembles: “Traveling more than any classical group in the region, Cappella Romana takes to the road for as many […]
Cappella Romana’s presents its two -CD release of the Divine Liturgy in English set to Byzantine Chant. A male ensemble led by Alexander Lingas chants the service’s hymns, psalms, and responses in a resonant natural acoustic according to the most authoritative Byzantine traditions, including works adapted from Petros Peloponnesios ( 1778), Nileus Kamarados ( […]
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