The Clarion Choir Extends the Visibility of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week with New Recording and Russian Tour

Last year, readers of the Orthodox Arts Journal read about the significance of Passion Week  by Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946), a newly rediscovered choral masterpiece based almost entirely upon early Russian chant melodies. Completed in 1923 in St. Petersburg, just a few weeks before the communist authorities banned all composition and performance of sacred music, the…

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