St. Mary's Cathedral
One teacher has taught here, across 5 gatherings. 5 are still ahead.
One teacher has taught here, across 5 gatherings. 5 are still ahead.
Cappella Romana sings Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil of 1915 under interim music director John Michael Boyer, interleaved with the unadorned Znamenny, Kievan and Greek chant melodies the work grows out of.
Music for the fourth-century bishop of Myra from both the Greek and the Latin traditions, including Dufay's motet O gemma lux, a kalophonic chant by Manuel Chrysaphes and Arvo Part's setting of the Orthodox hymn to the saint.
An all-chant programme reprising the ensemble's first such concert in 2001: Old Roman chant from the eleventh-century St Cecilia Graduale alongside medieval Byzantine hymns spanning from eighth-century Palestine to the composers of Constantinople and Mount Athos.
The hymns of Kassia the Nun, the ninth-century Constantinopolitan poet, abbess and composer, including the Hymn of Kassiani and her odes for Holy Saturday, sung in the medieval melodies as she herself would have sung them.
Music for Pentecost from across the Orthodox world, centred on the Teleutaion of the Kneeling Vespers, a monumental thirteenth-century chant from Grottaferrata Abbey with extended psalmody and exuberant settings of Alleluia.
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