Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana brings to life the music of Arvo Pärt as you’ve never heard it before, presenting the composer’s Orthodox choral works for the first time as an Orthodox Service of Supplication. Built around the singing of a Byzantine poem called a kanon, on this occasion it features three odes from Pärts monumental Kanon Pokajanen (Kanon of Repentance). Compositions by Pärt likewise comprise the other elements of this service: a Gospel reading marks its center (The Woman with the Alabaster Box) complete by psalmody, Orthodox hymns, and fervent prayers. Pärt’s transcendent “Prayer after the Kanon” eventually gives way to silence, to the prayer of the heart.

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Cappella Romana & Alexander Lingas – Robert Kyr: All-Night Vigil (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Cappella Romana & Alexander Lingas – Robert Kyr: All-Night Vigil (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:37 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana

Cappella Records proudly announces the world premiere recording of Robert Kyr’s All-Night Vigil, performed by Cappella Romana, and directed by founder and music director Alexander Lingas.

American composer Robert Kyr’s All-Night Vigil takes its formal inspiration from Sergei Rachmaninoff, who in 1915 set the same selections from the Orthodox vigil for the Resurrection. Here Robert Kyr employs an English translation of those selections by the late Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash), to whom this Vigil is dedicated.

Kyr blends Byzantine and Slavic musical traditions with a distinctly personal idiom, granting a fresh approach for those familiar with these texts, and a deeply moving point of entry for those encountering them for the first time.

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Cappella Romana & Alexander Lingas – Hymns of Kassianí (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Cappella Romana & Alexander Lingas – Hymns of Kassianí (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:38 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana

The same men and women of Cappella Romana who brought you the Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia bestseller (43 weeks on Billboard), now sing the earliest music we have by a female composer, including long-suppressed hymns recorded here for the first time. They close with two medieval versions of her beloved hymn for Orthodox Holy Week. Cappella Romana is the worlds leading ensemble in the field of medieval Byzantine chant. Building on its extensive catalogue of this repertoire, Hymns of Kassianí is its 25th release. This is the first of a planned series to record all of Kassianís surviving works.”

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