Steinberg: Passion Week

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Album Details

EAN/UPC: 888295219372
Catalog No: CR-414
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Liner Notes

2015 Gramophone Record of the Year!
#1 Amazon Classical Release
Top 10 Billboard Debut

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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    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

  1. Аллилуя / Alleluia (Znamenny chant)
    Soloist: Adam Steele (bass), celebrant
  2. Troparion: Се Жених грядет / Behold, the Bridegroom comes (Znamenny chant)
  3. Exaposteilarion: Чертог Твой / Your bridal chamber (Kievan chant)
    Soloist: Mark Powell (baritone)
  4. From the Orthros of Great Thursday

  5. Troparion: Егда славнии ученицы / When the glorious disciples (Znamenny chant)
    Soloist: Kerry McCarthy (alto)
  6. Canon, Ode 9, Heirmos: Странствия Владычня / Come believers (Znamenny chant)
    Soloist: Catherine van der Salm (soprano)
  7. From the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Great Thursday

  8. Great Entrance and Communion Chant: Вечери Твоея тайныя / Of your mystical supper (Znamenny chant)
  9. From the Vespers of Great Friday and Orthros of Great Saturday

  10. Troparion: Благообразный Иосиф / The noble Joseph [of Arimathea] (Bulgarian chant)
  11. From the Passion Orthros of Great Friday

  12. 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)
  13. From the Orthros of Great Saturday

  14. Canon, Ode 9, Heirmos: Не рыдай Мене, Мати / Do not weep for Me, Mother (Znamenny chant)
    Soloist: Leslie Green (tenor)
  15. From the Vespers of Great Saturday (the Ancient Paschal Vigil)

  16. Воскресни, Боже / Arise, O God
    Soloists: Theodor Dumitrescu (bass), Rebekah Gilmore (soprano)
  17. Great Entrance Chant: Да молчит всякая плоть / Let all mortal flesh keep silence
    (Znamenny chant)
    Soloist: Jo Routh (alto)
  18. 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

  19. Аллилуя / Alleluia
    Soloist: Alexander Lingas (tenor), celebrant
  20. Troparion: Се Жених грядет / Behold, the Bridegroom comes
  21. Exaposteilarion: Чертог Твой / Your bridal chamber
    Soloist: Joseph Michael Muir (tenor)
  22. From the Orthros of Great Saturday

  23. Canon, Ode 9, Heirmos: Не рыдай Мене, Мати / Do not weep for Me, Mother
  24. From the Vespers of Great Saturday (the Ancient Paschal Vigil)

  25. 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)

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