Various Artists - MeditationThe five new choral works on this album by James MacMillan, Will Todd, Anna Semple, Eoghan Desmond and Lisa Robertson all grew from a meditation by St John Henry Newman. Newman was a theologian of towering stature and broad influence and his meditation resonates with great clarity in our present age of the re evaluation of what we can and cannot do without, and of the profound human need for a sense of meaning and purpose. Canonized in October 2019,

As for the two principals

NovaMenco among others

" and others such as "FUCK YO FRIENDS" and "TRAVIS"-the latter of which Killboy saw a vision for when no one else did and soon became her third most streamed song to date

Massenet ('Extase'

(s)he's only a girl part-time and (s)he'll be moving in with three other gorgeous Kämpfers (who are all actually all woman all of the time)

Susman's music is described by AllMusic as "the next developments in the sphere (of) minimalism

This director approved

mastered by Kevin Gray from the original masters

Mussorgsky's original piano setting of his popular Pictures at an Exhibition anchors an absorbing program that includes Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata and Romeo and Juliet Before Parting

and indeed it has made them perhaps more stimulating

The CD also features his father Jim Stranahan on soprano sax

elegance and Rossini an style) and farther afield