Schola Cantorum - Hymn to the Virgin - BLU-RAY AUDIO

Benedict Sheehan's landmark setting of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in English grows out of the tradition of the great Russian liturgy settings by Rachmaninoff, Gretchaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. Hailed by Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America as Incha new milestone for Orthodoxy in America,Inch it is also reminiscent of medieval Eastern chant and minimalism, American folk singing, and the high tradition of Western church music. Sheehan's sweeping and virtuosic a cappella Liturgy represents a fresh and vibrant voice for choral music today. The Saint Tikhon Choir was founded in 2015 by Benedict Sheehan, the group's artistic director, and Abbot Sergius of St. Tikhon's Monastery. It is the first professional vocal ensemble connected with an Orthodox monastery in America, founded with a mission to foster and build up the American Orthodox choral tradition at the highest artistic level.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures, is a quote from Anne Frank's diary, the book on which The Beauty That Still Remains is based. These are thoughts we must all take heed of, confronting injustice that does not strike directly at ourselves. This recording represents a deep musical engagement with such universal values as empathy and faith in the good that is in every person. Asylos deals with the contradictions of inclusion and exclusion, and points up the connection between the pilgrims of the past and the asylum seekers of our time. The Norwegian Girls Choir addresses the theme of the inviolability of human dignity. The music by Marcus Paus and Maja S.K. Ratkje frames, in contrasting ways, the power that humanity and hope carry with them even amid the most intense horror, and through testimonies of the past these works tell us how relevant these topics still are.

Beat Records Company Publishing Group in collaboration with Universal Music Publishing Ricordi and EMI Music Publishing is proud to present the complete edition of the 60th anniversary of the original motion picture soundtrack of the second movie of The Dollars Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More, featuring the score by Ennio Morricone. One of the most waited scores by the Maestro fans, and from Sergio Leone's cinema and music lovers, a project that finally is born thanks to the finding of the score in Beat Records archives, right in time to celebrate the 60th year of life of this cinematic masterpiece by Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volontè.A soundtrack so much yearned, now finally available compete with the original RCA album program and unreleased tracks to reach the length of 66 minutes of pure Morricone western sound. A masterpiece finally available to everybody thanks to this Deluxe edition on CD in our CDX series, mastering by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, 24 pages booklet with Averardo Ciriello cover, external hard paper tunnel with Renato Casaro cover while on the back we have a portrait of Ennio Morricone portrait drawn by Claudio Fuiano, liner notes and graphic layout by Daniele de Gemini. A limited edition that can't be missing from your collection.