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WORLD PREMIERES by composers well known to Cappella Romana audiences: Ivan Moody (The Akathistos Hymn), Robert Kyr (A Time for Life), Richard Toensing (Kontakion on the Nativity), John Vergin (When Augustus Reigned), and Tikey Zes (Choral Music of Greek America)
May 19-St. Mary's Cathedral, Portland; May 20-St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Seattle Be Radiant, O Peoples!
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 NEW RELEASE: Cappella Romana performs exquisite Byzantine musical treasures--from the cathedrals and monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire--preserved from destruction in the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai. Features music for the medieval celebration of Vespers in honor of St. Catherine, and Byzantium's only liturgical drama, the Service of the Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace. Order here.
See here excerpts of the All-Night Vigil performed by Cappella Romana in January 2012:
For the first time in its twenty-year history, Cappella Romana performed in its entirety the monumental All-Night Vigil (the so-called “Vespers”) by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Inspired by a contemporary movement to recover the Russia’s ancient spiritual and musical culture, Rachmaninoff surpassed his predecessors Kastalsky and Smolensky with the brilliance of his settings of Znamenny and Kievan chants. Scored for large chorus and soloists, his Vigil is today widely regarded as the outstanding masterpiece of the Russian choral tradition. Cappella Romana is a 2012 Guest Choral Artist at St. James Cathedral.
Its performances “like jeweled light flooding the space” (Los Angeles Times), Cappella Romana is a vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music. Founded in 1991, Cappella Romana’s name refers to the medieval Greek concept of the Roman oikoumene (inhabited world), which embraced Rome and Western Europe, as well as the Byzantine Empire of Constantinople ("New Rome") and its Slavic commonwealth. Each program in some way reflects the musical, cultural and spiritual heritage of this ecumenical vision.
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Highlighting the season, Cappella Romana will return in March 2012 to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to perform the program “Desert and City: Medieval Byzantine Music of the Holy Land.” This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century). The exhibition is made possible by the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation and The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.
Click here for video and photos of Cappella Romana's recent tour performance at Stanford Memorial Church.
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