Steinberg: Passion Week
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2015 Gramophone Record of the Year!
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Steinberg’s PASSION WEEK is the last major sacred work composed in Russia after the 1917 Revolution. Alexander Lingas leads Cappella Romana’s intrepid singers in Steinberg’s profoundly moving work that extends the musical language of Rachmaninoff ’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”). Chants arranged by Rimsky-Korsakov, Steinberg’s teacher and father-in-law, reveal earlier layers of the tradition. Extensive 2,800-word scholarly essay by artistic director Dr. Alexander Lingas (City University London, University of Oxford) included, with full texts in Church Slavonic and translations in English. Cappella Romana is produced since 2004 by GRAMMY™ Award-winner Steve Barnett.
“Like Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ and the other neglected music it’s resurrected, Cappella Romana continues its ascent.” —Wall Street Journal
Booklet includes complete texts and translations, full-color recording photos, notes by Dr. Alexander Lingas.
Deluxe Limited-Edition 180-Gram Audiophile Vinyl
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- Аллилуя / Alleluia (Znamenny chant)
Soloist: Adam Steele (bass), celebrant - Troparion: Се Жених грядет / Behold, the Bridegroom comes (Znamenny chant)
- Exaposteilarion: Чертог Твой / Your bridal chamber (Kievan chant)
Soloist: Mark Powell (baritone) - Troparion: Егда славнии ученицы / When the glorious disciples (Znamenny chant)
Soloist: Kerry McCarthy (alto) - Canon, Ode 9, Heirmos: Странствия Владычня / Come believers (Znamenny chant)
Soloist: Catherine van der Salm (soprano) - Great Entrance and Communion Chant: Вечери Твоея тайныя / Of your mystical supper (Znamenny chant)
- Troparion: Благообразный Иосиф / The noble Joseph [of Arimathea] (Bulgarian chant)
- Exaposteilarion: Разбойника благоразумнаго / The Wise Thief (original composition)
Trio: Catherine van der Salm (soprano), Rebekah Gilmore (soprano), Kerry McCarthy (alto)
Soloist: Joseph Michael Muir (tenor) - Canon, Ode 9, Heirmos: Не рыдай Мене, Мати / Do not weep for Me, Mother (Znamenny chant)
Soloist: Leslie Green (tenor) - Воскресни, Боже / Arise, O God
Soloists: Theodor Dumitrescu (bass), Rebekah Gilmore (soprano) - Great Entrance Chant: Да молчит всякая плоть / Let all mortal flesh keep silence
(Znamenny chant)
Soloist: Jo Routh (alto) - Аллилуя / Alleluia
Soloist: Alexander Lingas (tenor), celebrant - Troparion: Се Жених грядет / Behold, the Bridegroom comes
- Exaposteilarion: Чертог Твой / Your bridal chamber
Soloist: Joseph Michael Muir (tenor) - Canon, Ode 9, Heirmos: Не рыдай Мене, Мати / Do not weep for Me, Mother
- Great Entrance Chant: Да молчит всякая плоть / Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Soloists: LeaAnne DenBeste (soprano), Jo Routh (alto), Leslie Green (tenor), Theodor Dumitrescu (bass)
Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946) Passion Week Op. 13
based on Early Russian Chants for large mixed choir a cappella (1923)
Максимилиан Штейнберг (1883-1946) Страстная седмица
древних распевов для большого смешанного хора a cappella, соч. 13 (1923)
World Premiere Recording From the “Bridegroom” Orthros of Great Monday to Great Wednesday
From the Orthros of Great Thursday
From the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Great Thursday
From the Vespers of Great Friday and Orthros of Great Saturday
From the Passion Orthros of Great Friday
From the Orthros of Great Saturday
From the Vespers of Great Saturday (the Ancient Paschal Vigil)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Chant Arrangements for Holy Week
Николай Римский-Корсаков (1844-1908) Духовно-музыкальные переложения из Страстной Седмицы
From the “Bridegroom” Orthros of Great Monday to Great Wednesday
From the Orthros of Great Saturday
From the Vespers of Great Saturday (the Ancient Paschal Vigil)
MusicWeb International
One of the big choral rediscoveries of recent years combined with a stunning performance and recording, Steinberg’s sublime and eloquently moving Passion Week is a work to which I’ve returned again and again this year ” –Recordings of the Year
Gramophone Magazine
Their unanimity of attack and fastidious approach to dynamic contrasts are just two hallmarks of an outstanding achievement. Hats off, too, to Preston Smith and Steve Barnett for their superb engineering and production. …the finest advocacy from these fine musicians. This is definitely a disc to savour ” –Malcolm Riley
Orthodox Arts Journal
Every so often a record comes along that changes the landscape of choral music… Such a beautiful work deserves the attention of the world. However, if it is going to capture the world’s attention it needs a vehicle, and I will be surprised if anyone can offer a better one than Cappella Romana’s new record anytime soon ” –Benedict Sheehan
Audiophile Audition
Once again Alexander Lingas and his intrepid crew provide sterling and gorgeously recorded music in exacting and beautifully defined performances ” –Steven Ritter
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It’s all beautifully sung by Cappella Romana, a Portland, Ore.-based professional choir. It provides a satisfying musical tour of the conclusion of the season of Lent ” –Sarah Bryan Miller
MusicWeb International
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 choir: Cappella Romana have done Steinberg proud. ” –John Quinn
ClassicalNet
there is much to savor in the beautiful harmonies and soaring melodies. Cappella Romana does this sort of thing better than anyone, and there is literally nothing to criticize from a technical standpoint. ” –Brian Wigman
AllMusic
Recommended, with something of a lost treasure of Russian choral music ” –James Manheim
New York Times
‘Passion Week’…is on a scale with the great sacred works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, though in a slightly more advanced idiom, and is quite simply beautiful. ” –James R. Oestreich
MusicWeb International
The power of this stunning performance is that it simultaneously brings to life a masterpiece in whose sounds you can bathe with eternal opulence, and also restores a liturgical and spiritual monument that deserves a permanent place and wide use in its intended context and beyond ” –Dominy Clements
Planet Hugill
Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week is a major work which deserves to be better known. … Alexander Lingas and Capella Romana are to be congratulated on their scholarship in recovering the work, and their fine recording ” –Robert Hugill
Gramophone
an eloquent brilliance, singing with tremendous relish, as though this obscure masterpiece had been in their repertory for years …the finest advocacy from these fine musicians. This is definitely a disc to savour ” –Malcolm Riley
Expedition Audio
Passion Week is a profoundly moving composition… This is a unique and beautiful recording, one that deserves to be discovered and loved by many. ” –Paul Ballyk
The Wall Street Journal
lush, occasionally delicate, graced by intermittent dissonances and touches of counterpoint. … Like Steinberg's 'Passion Week' and the other neglected music it's resurrected, Cappella Romana continues its ascent ” –Brett Campbell
