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 Untitled
Cappella Records is pleased to announce the October 14, 2022, two-disc release of Heaven and Earth, with Cappella Romana’s Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer leading the ensemble along with 45th Parallel Universe in John Tavener’s masterpiece for choir and string trio, Ikon of Light. The release also features the world premiere of Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation, a unique collaborative setting… Continue reading Untitled
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 as… Continue reading Untitled
Thanks to all of you who pre-ordered and purchased during the first week of the release, Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week debuted at #7 on the Traditional Classical Billboard Charts! Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!
New York Times critic James R. Oestreich shared that he’d been listening to our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording in the ArtsBeat “Classical Playlist”: “‘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, The New… Continue reading Untitled
Our “Icons of Sound” concert and collaboration with Stanford University gets a fantastic feature in the Smithsonian Magazine: “Hagia Sophia, a former church and mosque, is an important part of Istanbul’s long history. Who knew its sublime sound could be transferred to Stanford? Twice in the past few years, Stanford scholars and scientists have worked… Continue reading Untitled
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
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 to life… Continue reading Untitled
Cappella Records is excited to share the #7 Debut of our Arvo Part: Odes of Repentance album on the Traditional Classical Billboard® Charts! Congratulations to Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas! 12 spellbinding tracks which give voice to the human yearning to be cleansed… the stars, the galaxies, all the wonders of a distant universe seem to… Continue reading Untitled
Producer Blanton Alspaugh has published a wonderful op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about the explosion of interest in sacred music. Cappella Records has been thrilled to work with Blanton Alspaugh and his SoundMirror engineering team on many of our most recent recordings, and we are honored to have them featured in such a wonderful… Continue reading Untitled
the singers are clearly steeped in the stylistic world of this music and it shows in their freedom, flexibility and that sense of an ensemble performing this regularly.…
“In these testing times, music from heaven is more than welcome… what counts for us is the result as presented here: A brilliant statement of the ancient Eastern Orthodox Gospel in a modern setting.… once again the female and male voices of Cappella Romana are beyond reproach, taking the listener for just over an hour into another, mystic world.”
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