Music: In Procession to the Mount of Olives Antiphon 1 in Mode Plagal 4
Artists: Cappella Romana
Album: Good Friday in Jerusalem
Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Street Date: February 10, 2015

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Alexander Lingas, artistic director and soloist; Stelios Kontakiotis, principal soloist; Spyridon Antonopoulos, John Michael Boyer, Constantine Kokenes, Mark Powell, melodists;
Theodor Dumitrescu, David Krueger, Adam Steele, David Stutz, isokrates; Ioannis Arvanitis, performing editions;

Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Athens, Utrecht, Regensburg, and in the US Northwest all demonstrate how Cappella Romana “continues its ascent” (Wall Street Journal).

With Good Friday in Jerusalem, Cappella Romana’s intrepid male ensemble features international cantors from Greece, the UK, and the US, with Stelios Kontakiotis from Tinos, Greece, as principal soloist. Together they perform these chants with captivating modal inflections that underscore the deep pathos and personal drama of Good Friday. These profound selections for the 8th- and 9th-century ceremonies invoke an elaborate stational liturgy in Jerusalem’s most sacred Christian sites. Recorded in the splendid Stanford Memorial Church and sung in Byzantine Greek.

Extensive scholarly article by founding artistic director Dr. Alexander Lingas (City University London, University of Oxford), with full texts in Greek and translations in English.

In Procession to the Mount of Olives

Music: Passion Week: Behold, The Bridegroom Comes
Composer: Maximilian Steinberg
Artists: Cappella Romana
Album: Steinberg: Passion Week
Cappella Romana CPE 414
Street Date (CD & MP3): March 24, 2015 (Vinyl in May!)

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“Like Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ and the other neglected music it’s resurrected, Cappella Romana continues its ascent.” —Wall Street Journal

On the heels of their chart-topping GOOD FRIDAY IN JERUSALEM, Cappella Romana releases its 21st CD, the WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING of STEINBERG’S PASSION WEEK, following their sold-out world premiere live performances of the work in 2014.

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.

DELUXE LIMITED-EDITION 200-GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL RELEASE COMING IN MAY 2015.

Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week: Behold, The Bridegroom Comes

The Hymn of the Great Eucharistic Entrance from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Music by Benedict Sheehan, based on the Kievan Chant, "I Will Receive the Cup of Salvation."

Cherubic Hymn, No. 1

Music by Benedict Sheehan (1997). Text from the Liturgy of St. James

Let All Mortal Flesh

12th century Irish lyric. Music by Benedict Sheehan. Laura Soto-Bayomi, soprano. WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING.

At the cry of the first bird, they began to crucify Thee, O Swan!
Never shall lament cease because of that. 
It was like the parting of day from night.

Ah, sore was the suffering borne 
By the body of Mary’s Son,
But sorer still to Him was the grief 
Which for His sake
Came upon His Mother.

The Crucifixion

Archimandrite Sergius, abbot of St. Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan; Benedict Sheehan, composer, conductor & resident music director at St. Tikhon's Seminary & Monastery; and Maria Sheehan, mezzo-soprano and wife of Benedict Sheehan, talk about the debut album of The Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery, titled, "Till Morn Eternal Breaks: Sacred Choral Music of Benedict Sheehan." More information at st.tikhonsmonastery.org

Archimandrite Sergius, Benedict Sheehan & Maria Sheehan - December 23 2015

Benedict Sheehan, music director at St. Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan, and Maria Sheehan, community coordinator for the monastery, talk about the 114th Annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage, May 25-28. The monastery is located at 175 St. Tikhon's Road, South Canaan. There will be a "Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil" featuring the Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery at 7:30 p.m. May 27 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre. More information at monasterychamberchoir.com, memorialdaypilgrimage.com, or 1-888-454-6678.

5/22/18 11:06 AM

Benedict Sheehan & Maria Sheehan - May 22 2018

From All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, No. 11. Sung by the Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery. Recorded LIVE on May 27, 2018, at St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Nicholas Kotar, tenor; Benedict Sheehan, conductor.

Rachmaninov Vigil

S. Rachmaninov, My Soul Magnifies the Lord — LIVE

Christmas Program - St Tikhon's Seminary Choir & Sheehan Family Singers

พระคริสต์ทรงเป็นขึ้นจากความตาย
ทรงเอาชนะความตายด้วยความตาย
และแก่ผู้ที่อยู่ในหลุมฝังศพ
พระองค์ได้ทรงประทานชีวิต

Transliteration:
Phra Khrit song pen kheun jaak khwuam tai
song ao chana khwuam tai duay khwuam tai
lae kae phu thee yuu nai loom phang sop
Phra Ong dai song pra-taan cheewit

Thai translation: Phuket Orthodox Theological School
music: Dn. Ignatius & Senia Strange

sheet music:
https://ignatiusstrange.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-making-of-thai-paschal-troparion.html

Let All Mortal Flesh

Benedict Sheehan - Composer/Conductor